Facebook Reality Labs has released a paper on "reverse passthrough VR," a recipe for making VR headsets less physically isolating. Researchers have devised a method for translating your face onto the front of a headset, although they emphasize it's still firmly experimental. This comes as the people around a headset user can't make eye contact, even if the wearer can see them perfectly.
A robotic police dog that will scan your eye to make sure you don't have a fever is just one of the ways public safety agencies are starting to use Spot, the best-known of a new commercial category of robots that trot around with animal-like agility, to keep emergency responders out of harm's way as they scout for dangers.
Diablo Immortal may be a game for tiny screens, but that doesn't mean it's a small feat of development, with developers needing more time to fine-tune PvE content, improve PvE experiences and implement additional accessibility options, delaying the release of the action RPG to early 2022.
TikTok takes another step in becoming a more formidable shopping platform with the new Publicis partnership, meaning it could create a fresh pipeline of blue-chip brands to the video-sharing app, which is one of the largest in the world, meaning Publicis has recently made other moves to deepen its expertise in commerce and retail media.
Spotify is testing a new monthly plan that retains the ads, but gives you infinite skips and lets you select specific songs on an album or playlist for playback, following news of a YouTube Premium Lite offering. The risk is that it could eat into Spotify's existing premium user base, which make up 165 million of its 365 million subscribers.
YouTube announced its plans to significantly invest in original creator content for its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, with the introduction of a $100 million YouTube Shorter Fund, rewarding creators for their most engaging and most viewed short-form videos over the course of 2021 to 2022. This goal is to quickly scale creator activity on YouTube’s new short form video platform, Shorts.
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Instagram announced on Tuesday that it is no longer a photo-sharing app, but instead, it will focus on creators, video, messaging, and shopping as the pandemic accelerated the shift of commerce from offline to online by a number of years. The announcement garnered mixed reactions in the comment section, some claiming the move would sabotage the app's foundations.
As the U.S. economy rebounds from its pandemic slump, computer chips are in short supply, making it difficult for schools to buy enough laptops for students forced to learn from home. The shortage has been rippling through various markets since last summer, particularly in the auto industry, where there aren't enough chips to finish building vehicles that are starting to look like computers on wheels.
Twitter is partnering with AP, Reuters and other media organizations to help with its Curation efforts to help the company with the accuracy of the news that circulated across Twitter. The partnership will also help with public service announcement during high visibility events, and misinformation labels, among other things.
Amazon has introduced its new biometric palm print scanners, Amazon One, so customers can pay for goods in some stores by waving their palm prints over one of these scanners. The company has expanded its biometric scanning technology to its stores across the U.S., including New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Texas.