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Facebook’s Oculus To Integrate With Social Platform

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Facebook has revealed new links between its virtual reality (VR) headset and the company’s core app. In addition, users will be able to message their Oculus friends inside the headset and on non-VR devices, as well as create events and invite friends. We originally launched Oculus for Business at OC4.

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Consumer spending behaviours: People ditch non-essential shopping

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When it comes to consumer spending behaviours, holding back on or stopping altogether non-essential buying is the what people do today, according to the 2023 PwC Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey. In addition, 15% of consumers have stopped non-essential spending altogether, PwC added.

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Mastercard, Swarovski And Virtual Reality Crystal Commerce

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In recent virtual reality (VR) news, Mastercard, Swarovski and VR have come together to make living rooms more tasteful places, according to a news release posted by BusinessWire. Moreover, one of the persistently named stumbling blocks for VR tech is a lack of variety among applications with which to use it.

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US Video Game Industry Wins Again At $30.4B

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video game and interactive entertainment industry had some big wins in 2016. The revenue is a matchup of hardware and software, peripherals, and in-game purchases. As for other data included in the research, according to the ESA, video game software alone grew by 6 percent to $24.5 Specifically, $30.4 billion in revenue.

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First Oculus VR Set Gets Hand-Delivered By Founder

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Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivered the first public Rift model to Ross Martin, an Alaska man who managed to beat other VR enthusiasts to the punch and record the first pre-order for the device back in January. He was at work and as a result didn’t have his computer and couldn’t play any VR games for the live camera.

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Facebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots

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And from there, F8 took on a much more forward-looking tone — with AR/VR and bots playing the day’s starring roles. “If We’re making the camera the world’s first augmented reality platform,” Mark Zuckerberg told the assembled about the series of AR/VR updates coming to the Facebook platform.

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Musings on Markets: META Lesson 1: Corporate Governance

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Trader’s game : Along the way, Facebook has had its ups and downs, and a savvy trader who was able to time entry and exit into the stock at the right times, would have made a killing on the stock. billion in the third quarter of 2022. . In contrast, a company like Yahoo!

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