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VR Headset Prices Are Now Used By The UK To Measure Inflation

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The price of VR headsets is now one of the factors used by the UK government to measure inflation. The ONS says the collection of goods it includes "shows how consumer spending has evolved over the years", and that the inclusion of VR "shows our appetite for emerging technology". Now, one such good is VR headsets, the BBC reports.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

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I’ve been working in technology and multimedia for the past 25 years , doing everything from graphic design, sound production and editing, music production, video, illustration, printing, coding, and everything in between. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges. I live to create and create to live.

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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

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The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Or that tech giants don’t invest anymore in technologies that are not profitable anymore after this law (e.g.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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I remember many people laughing at me when we of New Technology Walkers released a fitness game for the Vive Focus Plus ( HitMotion: Reloaded ) because they said it was a big and overpriced headset. While the community protests against Facebook in the West, it seems that in China the government is working for a real name policy in gaming.

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How Can Businesses Prepare for Enterprise VR?

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Even governments are turning to immersive platforms to showcase tourism, security, and travel opportunities. Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, companies began to embrace XR technologies to connect teams remotely and remain productive.

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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

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The spatial computing-focused privacy expert believes that industry self-governance will be more impactful. ” Google could be the knowledge layer , Facebook the social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. But real change will be measured in action, says Pearlman.

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“Metaversed”: A Book Review and Author Interview

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Chapter two presents all of the technologies playing into the development of the metaverse. That includes immersive technologies like the spatial web, XR hardware, and digital twins. Readers of ARPost might be principally interested in immersive technologies. We need to have those people.