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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

Does the average person want to shop for apparel in virtual reality (VR)? But not everyone agrees — particularly those who hope to build a business out of VR retail. ” Emperia’s platform offers tools brands can use to create virtual experiences, including stores in VR. Perhaps so.

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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

TechCrunch

Virtual reality, Meta style : Meta’s new virtual reality headset technology is going to focus on face-tracking and eye-tracking, features the company calls “social presence,” Ivan writes. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.”

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

After 2 months in an underground shelter they have also used their technology to register evidence of war crimes and provide the ability to immerse oneself into Ukraine to experience it, it’s now developing applications for psychological trauma treatment, VR medical trainin, combat surveillance systems and making the de-mining process safer.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. If Apple can’t make technology into a fashion statement, no one can. Chirper is a social network for AI. Or maybe not. Will this slow Rust’s momentum?

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Identity problems get bigger in the metaverse

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Presentation is just a facet of identity, as the real-world fashion industry well knows. But this is just re-hashing years of identity work that focuses on the how (internet standards) and rarely the why (what people need to feel comfortable with identity online). Am I trying to figure out my place within an in-person social event?

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Technology Trends for 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Despite talk of “internet time,” our industry doesn’t change radically from day to day, month to month, or even year to year. Because almost all attacks start with a phish or some other kind of social engineering, just telling employees not to give their passwords away won’t help. There are several causes for this shift.

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Virtual and augmented reality are technologies that were languishing in the background; has talk of the “metaverse” (sparked in part by Mark Zuckerberg) given VR and AR new life? Startups like Oculus (now part of Meta) have made VR goggles aimed at consumers, but they’ve never broken beyond a small segment of the gamer market.

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