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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 UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) takes into account the prices of many hundreds of goods and services to calculate the national inflation rate. Now, one such good is VR headsets, the BBC reports. 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".

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Beyond Today’s Smart Cities: Building A Multimodal Metropolis

Cathy Hackl

A multimodal metropolis is not just a smart city. It's responsive, adaptive, contextual, sustainable, resilient, & cognitive. Future cities will be multimodal & agentic.

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