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Customer-Obsessed Businesses Driving Infrastructure Transformation

Forrester IT

Access to mobility, social networks, wearable devices, connected cars and hotels managed by robots are rapidly changing the behaviors of how customers engage and purchase. Think how you watch a film, shop or order a taxi. Hardware speeds and feeds no longer dominate infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals' criteria.

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Facebook will start putting ads in Oculus Quest apps

The Verge

Facebook introduced ads on the Oculus mobile app last month, and it’s used limited Oculus data to target Facebook advertising since 2019 , but this is its first major foray into putting ads inside the Oculus VR platform itself. It also helps us continue to make innovative AR/VR hardware more accessible to more people,” says the blog post.

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Now Alexa can tell Netflix to just ‘play something’

The Verge

The button has top positioning in its TV and mobile apps, but now things are even easier to activate, as Netflix has linked its automatic selector to Amazon’s voice-controlled AI and streaming hardware. Now you can instantly discover a show or film we know you’ll love based on what you’ve watched before.”. Image: Amazon.

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The Battle For Your Head Is Underway: VR from Oculus, Sony, HTC/Valve competing at GDC2016

CTOvision

It expands beyond games to help developers produce immersive entertainment of all kinds, from games to CG movies to filmed experiences to simulations. Oculus Rift's consumer version (called CV1) is already available for pre-order and its hardware specs are well known.

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Super Bowl ad roundup: Big names bow out, but Amazon and plenty of tech still playing on Sunday

GeekWire

Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and about 100 other recognizable stars show up in this Amazon Prime Video film trailer for “Coming 2 America,” the sequel to the 1988 comedy. T-Mobile apparently had three ads planned for Sunday, but this one got “banned” by the NFL, according to the Bellevue, Wash.-based ” Whoa.

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GeekWire Gift Guide: 10 gadgets and tools you can actually get this holiday season

GeekWire

Most importantly, it’s significantly less expensive at an even $100 than Polaroid’s 2021 Now+ , with slightly cheaper film packs, which puts it more firmly in “fun toy” territory. Both the hardware and software for Watchy are open-source, which offers a lot of variety for what you want the watch to do and look like.

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Pokémon might be famous for its games, but it also has some great gadgets

The Verge

So it’s not all that surprising that there have been many Pokémon -themed toys and hardware. The camera shot 35mm film, and each photo would also have a pokémon-themed border, according to the manual. And speaking of Pikachu-themed hardware. The controller is also compatible with the huge mobile hit Pokémon Go.