GizModo VR

APRIL 8, 2022

The ground is shifting beneath Amazon’s mammoth-sized feet. Just days after workers at a Staten Island, New York warehouse voted to create the first Amazon union in the U.S., securities regulators authorized a shareholder vote on an investigation into its treatment of warehouse workers. Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

SEE ALSO Hands-on: Ubisoft's New VR Shooter 'Space Junkies' is All About Guns and Jetpacks. The game will also be launching alongside a companion eBook , penned by New York Times Bestselling author and script writer of the game Christie Golden. The eBook is available on Amazon for $1, and is slated to launch on October 10th.

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GizModo VR

JULY 19, 2022

Amazon warehouses are notoriously dangerous , unpleasant places to work. Now, the Department of Labor and Federal Prosecutors in New York are probing the company’s warehouses across the country as part of a civil investigation into alleged unsafe workplace conditions. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Amazon warehouse workers scored a victory against the abusive e-commerce giant this week, in the form of a settlement between the company and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). That agreement , first obtained by the New York Times via a public records request, puts an end to a longstanding company policy that, … Read more.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As part of its plan to elbow its way into every corner of commerce, Amazon has now partnered with Starbucks to open a new cashierless cafe in New York City.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

Amazon Odyssey. Through HTC’s content platform Viveport , the company is presenting libraries with over 35 educational experiences covering the areas of Arts & Culture, Creativity, Design, History, STEM, Travel, and Wellness. Check out the full list of experiences below. Vive Libraries Program Content List. Adventures in Space.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 27, 2022

Amazon warehouse workers in New York are in the middle of a drive to create the company’s first unionized workforce, an effort Amazon has no interest in it succeeding.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 19, 2022

Amazon must reinstate a worker who was fired from a fulfilment center on Staten Island in the aftermath of a protest two years ago, a judge has ruled. Amazon must now rehire Bryson and pay the wages he's lost. It will show that Amazon can be beat. SEE ALSO: Why Amazon only got a $60,000 fine for a 'serious' labor violation.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus , a $1.2 “No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 28, 2017

We’ve already heard that Amazon is looking into how VR can enhance its video offerings, but the company might be using the tech for other means too. Tagged with: Amazon. The company apparently hopes to capture a market that doesn’t want to order items like couches and fridges online without actually seeing them in person.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 18, 2022

Apple’s latest feature could soon be unions. The labor movement that’s been popping up at recognizable names in business has officially come to the tech giant: workers at Apple’s Grand Central retail store have begun the process of unionization, according to a story by The Washington Post. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 9, 2021

At New York Comic-Con 2021, the first footage of Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina got its grand animated debut. Based on the web series where voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons , the cartoon quickly took shape after a record-breaking Kickstarter, and Amazon later picked it up for two seasons. As with… Read more.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It was also the first AR experience to integrate Amazon Lex and was a finalist for the 2020 Augie Award for Best AR Campaign. Future Footwear With an interest in AR’s demonstrative properties, New York fashion label Khaite released a “try-before-you-buy” experience for its Spring 2021 shoe collection. the web AR benchmark).

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ARVR

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Specifically, MAC Cosmetics’ New York concept store delivers virtual try-ons via smart mirrors. Indeed, Amazon is already experimenting with such technologies as it continues its physical retail conquests. Indeed, AR’s visualization capabilities are aligned with everything from shoes to eyeshadow.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. I started off training in theater all over the world.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Amazon’s awful treatment of warehouse workers is in law enforcement’s crosshairs yet again. This time, New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the e-commerce giant requesting that the state’s courts mandate it take better protocols to protect its workers—and… Read more.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Workers looking to mobilize at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse and elsewhere are in good company. That’s according to a new Morning Consult/Politico poll which found 77% of registered voters said they support employee rights to collective bargaining. That support, unlike just about everything else nowadays,… Read more.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2020

Among tech’s big five — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook — all but Facebook have crossed the mark. Apple was first, followed by Microsoft and Amazon (which has since dipped below the mark). Image Source: New York Times. Call it the four-comma club — or “quattros comas!” Tentacles Anchored.

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VRScout

MAY 20, 2018

This is where things begin getting interesting, as the New York-based company revealed plans to engage in not only the audiences visual and audible senses, but their sense of touch and smell as well.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The sixth and final season of The Expanse will be arriving in just a few short months, and Amazon threw in a teaser as part of its New York Comic Con 2021 panel for good measure. Everyone brace! Read more.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

Available for sale on Oculus.com in 23 countries, you can also pick up one online from Amazon or in Best Buy Stores in the U.S. For you news junkies, you can take a deep dive into stories with journalists or watch VR broadcasts of live sports events from folks like CNN, The New York Times, Fox Sports and Al Jazeera Contrast VR.

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GizModo VR

JULY 31, 2020

million stock options just one day before the company’s stock soared amid news that it would receive a $765 million federal loan to manufacture critical drug components, the New York Times reported Friday. The Eastman Kodak Company gave its CEO 1.75 Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 30, 2017

It is the world’s first “trillion pixel film,” and it is getting a virtual reality experience that debuted this week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Baahubali is one of India’s biggest films, and it is getting a sequel, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion , which is one of the most technologically sophisticated films ever made.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But all of this is connected inside a single frame, it feels a bit like going to a work trip to a business city like Manhattan in New York. There are various districts, and there are even personal apartments: in the residential area, the Plus subscribers can have their personal space where to invite people for personal gatherings.

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Mashable VR

JULY 15, 2022

The wildly popular daily word puzzle that launched a thousand clones (and flooded your Twitter feed with square emoji) is being turned into a physical board game, according to a New York Times press release Thursday. can preorder it on Amazon for $19.99 Opens in a new tab. Wordle: The Party Game" (opens in a new tab).

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2023

The two began talking after Martins read “ Marketing New Realities ,” which Wolfe co-wrote with Cathy Hackl in 2017. Then, Martins was a guest speaker at Wolfe’s courses at New York University’s Steinhardt School. A Digestible Book, if Not in One Sitting Metaversed: See Beyond the Hype is currently available on Amazon.

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Road to VR

JULY 27, 2018

Freelance writer Joshua Fruhlinger, who occasionally writes for Digital Trends , used third-party Amazon sales data to back up his claim that consumers don’t care about VR anymore, saying it’s “crystal clear.” The report also specifies Gear VR’s decline in sales performance on Amazon.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Huge metropolises like New York City crunched reams of crime and arrest data to find and target “hot spots” for extra policing. The expansion of digital record-keeping by police departments across the U.S. in the 1990s ushered in the era of data-driven policing. Researchers at the time found that this reduced crime … Read more.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While scams in Facebook ads aren’t a new phenomenon and cryptocurrency scams have plagued platforms well beyond Facebook, these ads are particularly brazen: a network of scammers imitating the tech industry’s biggest players, on the tech industry’s largest social media platform, to shake down its users.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 20, 2022

New York City may be the Big Apple, but the Peach State may soon become home to the first Apple union. Workers at an Atlanta Apple Store filed for a union election Wednesday, the first in the country to do so. Read more.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to the New York Times , a trade judge has ruled preliminarily in favor of the speaker maker, saying that Google should not import products that violate Sonos’s intellectual property. Sonos just won a small victory in its battle against Google. Read more.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 8, 2021

During New York Comic Con 2021, the cast of Amazon’s upcoming adaptation of I Know What You Did Last Summer sat down to discuss their excitement about making the 1990s slasher film franchise , adapted from Lois Duncan’s novel of the same name, into a streaming series.

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GizModo VR

MAY 19, 2021

After a week of proceedings, the criminal trial for attorney Steven Donziger—who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Amazon rainforest—wrapped up on Monday. In his estimation, the trial was a “charade.” And yet he was relatively pleased with the outcome. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It has also secured massive partnerships with key industrial heavyweights such as Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, Verizon, Qualcomm, and many more. Hololight, Nokia Bell Labs Debut Next-Gen L4S Solution The news comes after the company participated in a major showcase at the Brooklyn 6G Summit in New York City, New York.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

That’s according to a recent New York Times report which unearthed details around a contract known as the “Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability,” which aims… Read more. Just three years ago, a historic Google worker protest forced the company to abandon a major AI military contract. Now, the company appears to be back at it again.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The world’s top human rights legal body just offered a crucial show of support for Steven Donziger, the attorney who won a landmark multibillion-dollar case against an oil giant over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. The ruling came on the eve of his sentencing in a criminal trial. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JULY 26, 2021

Steven Donziger, the lawyer who won a multibillion-dollar case against Chevron over pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon and then faced unrelenting legal attacks from the oil company, has been found guilty of criminal contempt. The attorney, who has been on house arrest for two years, now faces up to six months in jail.… Read more.

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