VR

Tencent May Acquire Gaming Phone Maker Black Shark
Tencent May Acquire Gaming Phone Maker Black Shark
January 10, 2022  |  Metaverse

China’s Tencent Group is in talks to acquire the gaming smartphone maker Black Shark in an apparent effort to enter the metaverse.  According to multiple...

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Verizon, Mastercard Use 5G To Reimagine Point Of Sale
Verizon, Mastercard Use 5G To Reimagine Point Of Sale
July 21, 2021  |  Retail

Standing in line, waiting for the point of sale to open up, getting ready to swipe the card … feels so yesterday. Pre-pandemic, in fact....

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Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet
September 14, 2020  |  Omnicommerce

Our first glimpse of the not-so-distant future of handheld tech was ‘the communicator’ on TV’s “Star Trek” in the late 1960s, providing science fiction’s vision...

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Apple Buys VR Broadcasting Startup
Apple Buys VR Broadcasting Startup
May 14, 2020  |  Apple

Apple has confirmed it has purchased NextVR, the virtual reality (VR) streaming startup, CNBC reported. Apple declined to reveal the purchase price or the terms...

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Facebook’s US Patents Increased 64 Pct. In 2019 YOY
Facebook’s US Patents Increased 64 Pct. In 2019 YOY
January 15, 2020  |  Facebook

Social media giant Facebook was awarded 989 patents in 2019, putting it higher on the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s list of the Top 300 organizations...

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Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
Zuckerberg Predicts Big Advancements In AR Tech In 2020s
January 10, 2020  |  Facebook

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is excited about augmented reality tech, which he thinks can address a number of social problems. Zuckerberg, in a Facebook post...

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Adobe Acquires Facebook’s Oculus Medium VR Tool
Adobe Acquires Facebook’s Oculus Medium VR Tool
December 08, 2019  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Social media giant Facebook is selling Oculus Medium, its virtual reality sculpting tool, to Adobe, reports revealed on Saturday (Dec. 7). Oculus Medium is an...

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Will Virtual Reality Pass the Sickness Test?
Will Virtual Reality Pass the Sickness Test?
November 22, 2019  |  Innovation

New, emerging and increasingly popular technologies go through a few tests on their way to more mainstream acceptance. Are they efficient? Are they secure? Are...

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Building A Visual Test-Drive Experience For Retailers
Building A Visual Test-Drive Experience For Retailers
November 11, 2019  |  Innovation

Seeing is believing. Excuse the cliché, but it does hold a good wallop of truth in commerce, especially as such technologies as virtual reality (VR),...

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