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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. See Also: New Guidelines for Developers: XR Software Should Be Accessible for Users With Disabilities. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions.

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How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods

GizModo VR

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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Engage Link hands-on: an early look at the “Linkedin of the metaverse”

The Ghost Howls

Keep in mind that the software has been released yesterday, so it’s still in the early stages (I will come back to this at the end of the article). 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. Engage Link trailer.

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Chatting With The Recipient Of The SXSW 2019 ‘Best Interactive Experience’ Award

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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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AR Leaders Join the ‘Four-Comma Club’

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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. Software has easier capital requirements and unit economics. Tentacles Anchored.

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HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales

Road to VR

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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Amazon’s New York Union Drive Might Be Coming at Just the Right Time

GizModo VR

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.