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3.2KInnovationOculus Monetizes VR With Enterprise Subscriptions
Oculus has announced the impending launch of the new Oculus for Business, designed to streamline and expand virtual reality (VR) in the...
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6.6KRetailVirtual Reality: 5G Retailers’ Secret Sauce?
Out of the haze of uncertainty emerged a new mobile network, and from the new mobile network came new retail applications and...
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3.6KInnovationNew Eye-Tracking VR Tech By Qualcomm, Accenture Helps Retailers Stack Shelves Better
Two tech companies and a food brand have teamed up to develop a virtual reality (VR) headset that uses eye-tracking tech to...
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4.0KAppleApple Removes Safari Location Tracking, Disrupting AR/VR
An update in Apple’s Safari browser might disrupt augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. A document published to Apple’s developer site...
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3.5KInnovationWarby Parker Goes AR/VR — Will It Generate Sales?
Warby Parker has officially joined the ranks of retailers embracing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) tech with the launch of...
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3.8KToday In DataToday In Data: Driving Contactless Adoption With Community Banks
Community banks could put more contactless cards into the hands of consumers with the help of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). At the same...
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5.8KRetailThe VR Effect On Retail: Fad Or True Game-Changer?
Move aside, storefront mannequins. Hot on the heels of its close cousin, augmented reality (AR), more retailers are using immersive virtual reality...
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5.2KAmazonAmazon Turns To VR To Boost Furniture Sales
Amazon is hoping to increase purchases of furniture online, rolling out a new feature dubbed Amazon Showroom that takes advantage of virtual...
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6.8KInnovationHow Will CES Set The 2019 Payments And Commerce Agenda?
Let’s move past the metaphors and low-level poetic imagery when it comes to the International Consumer Electronics Show, that annual conference and...
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3.1KToday In DataToday In Data: Keeping Track Of Consumer Context
Context is everything, particularly in the age of digital retail where catching the consumer at the right moment is the difference between a conversion...
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4.8KInnovationFacebook’s Oculus On Virtual Reality As An Enterprise Tool
Virtual reality (VR), a technology that has captured the public eye for decades, has long piqued consumers’ curiosity. The technology was originally...
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5.4KRetailDigital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style
To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers...
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7.1KMobile5G Retail Possibilities Expand As Mobile Tech Gets Ready To Roll
This is not one of those annoying algebra problems, we promise. But imagine two long trains, those massive mechanical snakes, each of...
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5.3KRetailMacy’s Partners With Marxent On Largest VR Rollout
Macy’s and Marxent have announced a partnership that will enable the largest virtual reality (VR) rollout in retail history, with approximately 70...
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4.2KInvestmentsSiemens Invests In VR Startup Backed By Volkswagon, Audi
German company Varjo Technologies has announced a $31 million Series B investment, led by Atomico and Seimens-backed Next47, that will help it launch...
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7.2KRetailFaceCake And Changing The Definition Of Try Before You Buy
Shopping for apparel online is tricky in any case, and shopping for accessories can be particularly taxing because, while one can get...
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3.0KInnovationVirtual Reality Gains Fresh Fuel Via Walmart Patents
Is virtual reality retail about to have a moment? Consumers seem ready, and one of the largest merchants in the world has...
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5.3KSizzle/FizzleRobots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
Fizzle of the Week: Timing Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook....
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3.4KRetailUnlocking The Wonders Of Technology Through A Rental Model
It’s not easy to stay on the cutting edge of technology when the cutting edge is always changing — and can always...
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5.6KRetailIKEA Looks Toward A Future With AI
When it comes to planning for its future, furniture giant IKEA is trying to figure out how to use artificial intelligence (AI)...
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10.4KRetailAlibaba And The Emergence Of VR eCommerce
While not much of an event, yet, on North American shores, elsewhere in the world the countdown to Singles Day is underway....
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6.1KGoogleCould Google’s Wednesday Product Event Outshine Apple’s?
Following similar events held by Apple and Amazon, Google is hosting its own major product event Wednesday in California, where the company...
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8.2KMastercardUnlocking The Power Of VR With Payments
When Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $2 billion in 2014, the acquisition wasn’t exactly regarded as a stroke of business genius. Wired...
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4.7KRetailMastercard, Swarovski And Virtual Reality Crystal Commerce
In recent virtual reality (VR) news, Mastercard, Swarovski and VR have come together to make living rooms more tasteful places, according to...
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8.1KRetailGoogle Tracker: Calling For Backup From Smartphone Producer HTC
How could Google benefit from acquiring smartphone maker HTC? What is the company doing to help out in the wake of Hurricane...
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4.9KRetailWash, Rinse And VR With Saks Fifth Avenue’s New Salon
Going to the salon to for a new hair color or cut can be quite the luxurious experience. From getting your scalp...
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8.1KEarningsWayfair Beats Earnings Expectations – Again
In the eCommerce landscape, conventional wisdom tends to the idea that Amazon’s gravity in digital commerce is so overpowering that it is...
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4.1KGoogleAfter 21 Years, Google Homepage Is Getting A Facelift
Google’s iconic homepage has been around longer than Harry Potter. It’s old enough to drive, drink or fight in the Army. Today’s...
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3.5KGoogleGoogle And AI: The Perfect PAIR?
Speech recognition, image search, translation — those are just the beginning for artificial intelligence, if Google is reading its pulse right. While machines...
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Google’s Blocks VR App Lets You Build 3D Models
Google rolled out a new virtual reality app, dubbed Google Blocks, on Thursday (July 6) in which users can build 3D models....
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3.0KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSamsung Buys VR Startup VRB For $5.5 Million
Samsung Electronics has made more inroads into the virtual reality (VR) market by making an acquisition of VRB, a New York–based startup that develops...
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5.9KMerchant InnovationWalmart Bot Strategy Is Not To Use Them
They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Not...
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2.8KRetailSTRIVR Labs VR Tech Is Training Walmart Employees
The movies were wrong about holograms replacing teachers in the future, but they weren’t that far off. Walmart is introducing virtual reality...
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Worldpay Launches VR Payments Prototype
Worldpay, the payment processing company, is testing the use of virtual reality to enable card transactions for customers who are in a...
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2.6KGoogleGoogle Launches Voice Chat For YouTube
Instead of adding text comments in YouTube VR, Google announced that it will be creating shared rooms where users can voice chat...
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Will AR and VR Be Our New Reality?
Facebook’s F8 conference is one of the largest conferences for developers and entrepreneurs. Starting in 2007, the event has had a different...
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3.4KRetailFacebook Unveils Beta Version of Social VR Platform Spaces
The next frontier of virtual reality (VR) is here. After three years of development following its Oculus acquisition, Facebook has announced its...
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4.0KAmazonAmazon’s Physical Retail Vision Could Change How Retailers Operate
If retailers were worried about the impact Amazon would have on the world of eCommerce, they should be even more concerned about...
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6.0KInnovationIn Search Of The Next-Gen AR/VR Retail/Payments Experience
While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region,...
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4.9KThe Innovation ProjectMaking The Virtual Future Of Commerce A Reality
The payments industry is on the verge of a new (virtual) frontier. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) aren’t just the...
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4.6KRetailSamsung Brings VR To New York Fashion Week
Over the last few years, the fusion of tech and fashion has had many attempts, including Apple’s private 2015 event unveiling its...
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3.4KInnovationVR Venture Gets Hollywood Backing
Dreamscape Immersive, a new virtual reality technology startup, is looking to find growth and opportunity in the film and entertainment industry. The...
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Matterport, Google Bring VR To Mobile Web
California-based immersive media platform and technology company Matterport recently announced that WebVR is now supported on Google Daydream-ready phones — including Google’s...
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2.5KRetail200 Oculus Pop-Ups Close Due To Low Sales
Facebook is set to close some 40 percent of its Oculus pop-up stores due to low consumer interest. At least 200 of...
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4.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsGoogle AR Project Partners With Gap, BMW
More big news from the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017 — this time for the augmented reality space. Google’s 3-D-scanning, depth-sensing...
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4.7KMerchant InnovationMetLife Launching Virtual Reality Service In India
MetLife announced Monday (Dec. 19) that PNB MetLife, its joint venture partnership in India, launched conVRse, an on-demand virtual reality (VR) customer...
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3.3KRetailVirtual Assistants Slated To Surpass VR This Holiday
Gadgets and gizmos, oh my. ‘Tis the season for buying and gifting electronics, with most people placing them at the top of...
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Netflix Clicks On Virtual Reality Capability
Whether it’s while watching actress Taylor Schilling play Piper Chapman as she navigates Litchfield Penitentiary in Orange is the New Black or Kyle...
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4.9KRetailWayfair’s View In Room Update Allows Users To Virtually Decorate Real Rooms
Wayfair’s newest upgrade to its mobile app will let users get a feel for what their items might potentially look like in...
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2.4KRetailHormel Selling Bacon Via VR
Now for some virtual reality news that every carnivore can get excited for. Late last month, consumer packaged goods company Hormel launched a...