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Meta is opening its first retail store next month

The Verge

Meta is launching its first hardware retail store on its campus in Burlingame, California. The store, which opens May 9th , will let visitors try out and buy Meta’s Portal videophones and Quest virtual reality headsets. It’s also, however, a pretty limited one.

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Microsoft to permanently close physical retail locations; will incur pre-tax charge of $450M

GeekWire

Microsoft is shutting down its entire physical retail operation and instead will focus on its digital storefronts via Microsoft.com, as well as stores in Xbox and Windows. The company said its retail team members “will continue to serve customers from Microsoft corporate facilities and remotely providing sales, training, and support.”

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Facebook execs tease VR prototype hardware with new photos

The Verge

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook virtual reality lead and soon-to-be CTO Andrew Bosworth (or “Boz”) are playing around with prototype VR (or AR) tech and want to show it off. Image: Facebook. Both executives have posted pictures of themselves wearing prototype headsets and linking the concepts to Facebook’s work on the metaverse.

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Amazon’s Echo Show 8 smart display is over 40 percent off at several retailers

The Verge

If you’re looking for a good virtual reality headset but are intimidated by the $300 price tag for the relatively affordable Oculus Quest 2, you’re in luck. Like its successor, the Quest is a standalone head-mounted display, which allows you to play VR games without additional hardware.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

The SFN8722 OCP offers 10GbE performance, which is critical for today’s data centers where ultra scale dominates the market, supports 1000s virtual NICs and dual 10 GbE ports, and provides up to 30 million of packets per second and ultra-low latency under one microsecond. Other capabilities include: Hardware Based Packet Telemetry.

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ZERO10’s multi-task ML model provides real-time AR try-on for fashion

Dataconomy

ZERO10 , a prominent player in the fashion industry’s virtual try-on (VTO) space, has introduced its novel Multi-Task ML model. Balancing real-time processing and quality is a key challenge in virtual try-on and ZERO10 is spot on ( Image credit ) How does ZERO10’s VTO work?

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Luxury electric car maker Lucid setting up studio in Seattle in previous Microsoft Store space

GeekWire

A rep for the company told GeekWire on Monday that studios are typically large enough to house one vehicle, a lounge area, and a virtual reality experience and serve as a place where visitors can learn more about the full lineup of vehicle models. The Seattle location is estimated to open in Q4. The company had more than 70 U.S.

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