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Big XR News from Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Sony

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Amazon to Deploy AR Smart Glasses to Delivery Drivers Amazon is using AR smart glasses to optimize its delivery processes. The report indicates that Amazon’s smart glasses will provide AR turn-by-turn navigation visualizations, assisting drivers in walking toward buildings and identifying obstacles to save time during deliveries.

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The Most Important Upcoming AR/VR Events This Year

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Industrial IMMERSIVE Week When: August 28-30 Where: Houston, TX Industrial IMMERSIVE Week is one of the AR/VR events for professionals interested in XR, spatial computing, digital twins, AI, IIoT, 5G, 3D models and simulations, and connected workforce solutions.

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Amazon Partners With Baseball's Worst Cheaters to Make Buying Ballpark Snacks Feel Like Shoplifting

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Amazon’s bringing its Just Walk Out cashier-free payment system to parts of the Houston Astros stadium. When the service launches this year, Minute Maid Park’s (formerly Enron Field) 41,000-capacity stadium will stand out as one of the biggest testing grounds yet for Amazon’s quickly growing payment service.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.19): Meta announces Project Aria research kits, a wave of Chinese smartglasses is coming, and more!

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Together with these commercial smartglasses, we also got to know that, according to Reuters, Amazon is working internally on some glasses, too. The report also notes that Amazon is working on an embedded screen for future Echo Frames glasses that could show up sometime in Q2 2026.

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Lizzo's reality TV show is 100% good as hell

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Now, she seeks to do exactly that in her new Amazon Prime Video show, Watch Out for the Big Grrrls. Credit: James Clark / Amazon Studios. Credit: James Clark / Amazon Studios. There’s Houston influencer Sydney Bell , whose introductory audition is enough to make Lizzo throw every cushion off her couch. Pure magic.

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How to support the fight for transgender safety in Texas

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Monetary donations help support its programming, or you can donate through its Amazon Wish List. Hatch Youth , a program out of Houston-based LGBTQ organization The Montrose Center, is a youth and parent-focused resource for those seeking weekly community, educational programming, and other forms of health and social support.

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These 8 athletes win the award for Twitter excellence

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He was a good NBA player whose peak was in the mid-90s, winning a couple of championships for the Houston Rockets. SEE ALSO: Apple and Amazon are changing the way we watch live sports. Best at being maximum petty: Vernon Maxwell Unlike Tony Hawk, there’s a decent chance you don’t know Vernon Maxwell.