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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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How Embedded Real-Time Engagement Makes the Internet More Inclusive

DevOps.com

From powerful smartphones to VR video games, technological capabilities keep moving ahead in leaps and bounds. The post How Embedded Real-Time Engagement Makes the Internet More Inclusive appeared first on DevOps.com. However, factors like geographic […].

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MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder

TechCrunch

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. This year at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, MeetKai is launching several new platforms geared toward metaverse creators and users, including a way to digitize 3D spaces and buildings using any internet-connected device with a camera.

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Why Are Video Devices Becoming More Popular?

Strategy Driven

Video is transforming business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) communications. The critical technologies making this possible are lowering latency and enabling remote access to video content. Video Phones Video phones, also called videoconferencing devices, allow two people to communicate by video and audio.

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Daily Crunch: Property management startup Doorstead raises $21.5M Series B

TechCrunch

Gadgets and gizmos aplenty: Tim Stevens doesn’t have a strong stomach, but he got in the back of a ’67 DeVille with a VR headset to test out Holoride’s new VR kit just for you. If you don’t have your own camera crew, Studiobox has you covered with its interview-studio-in-a-box that Haje calls “a remote video team’s high-def dream.”

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was quite the demo (see the video below). Commenting, Tom Carter, Ultraleap CEO, said recent chatter about the VR-based “Metaverse” from companies like Facebook, as well as the shift to touchless interfaces brought about by the pandemic, had helped its fund-raising.

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

TechCrunch

Did you see the viral videos of yesterday’s flooding in New York City subways? In one, riders waded through brown, waist-deep water; another video showed a cascade rushing down a flight of stairs to a subway platform where passengers waited for a train. Can advertising scale in VR? Can advertising scale in VR?

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