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Few countries in the world have experienced such rapid discovery of technology than Myanmar. Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marveling at a device that allows some of Asia’s poorest people to walk on the…
UPS said it will start training student delivery drivers to spot and identify road hazards using virtual reality (VR) headsets that vividly simulate the experience of driving on city streets while teaching a more memorable classroom lesson. The company will…
Wireless VR headsets will further strain telecoms networks, with data consumption from the devices set to grow by over 650% over the next four years to over 21,000 petabytes by 2021, Juniper Research predicts. When combined with traffic generated by VR…
Enterprises need to start thinking now about ways virtual reality (VR) can be used within the workplace, according to recruiting experts Hays. While the technology is yet to become more commonplace across the wider world of work, experts say the possibility…
China’s Google-backed artificial intelligence (AI) start-up, Mobvoi, could soon take on the world’s leading smart voice assistant technologies, according to the firm’s founder and CEO. Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Shanghai, Mobvoi’s Li Zhifei…
New research from Worldpay, a global leader in payments, has revealed that Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology are slowly gaining ground across Asia Pacific. Chinese consumers are leading the region – and the world – with 95% of survey…
While 43 per cent of urban Chinese consumers would buy wearable devices for themselves, the figure rises to 48 per cent for the 20- to 24-years age bracket, says London-based research firm Mintel. Yet 32 per cent of the consumers it surveyed agree it is…
Hugo Barra, the international head at Xiaomi, is returning to Silicon Valley to head Facebook’s VR efforts, after spending three and half years in Beijing leading the Chinese smartphone maker’s global division. The announcement was made by Facebook head Mark…
Youku in China has chosen the Nokia OZO VR ecosystem of technologies “to bring the most immersive” VR content to the more than 500 million monthly active users engaged in its online video platform which has daily views of more than 1.1 billion. Youku users…
Nokia and Sony Pictures have inked a new multi-year worldwide agreement whereby the latter will use Nokia OZO hardware and software tools to explore the creative potential of virtual reality production and distribution. The studio will also integrate the OZO…
oon it be much easier to find the perfect lipstick colour and sunglasses to match your face shape, and the best part is you won’t even have to leave home. China is on the cusp of a major shake-up in online shopping technology to makes the virtual change room…
Will offline stores disappear? When consumers began online shopping in 1994, most of them could hardly imagine that offline stores might disappear. Online shopping was a mere subsidiary to offline stores, selling only a few items then. However, the volume of…
The China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute is working on a new use case for advanced technologies including 5G and VR – panoramic VR streaming of live video using drone technology. China Unicom and wireless broadband technology provider Baicells…
Xiaomi is broadening its already expansive range of products by venturing into virtual reality for the first time. The company today announced the Mi VR Play, an “entry-level” virtual reality headset that it hopes can open this new exciting medium to new…
DHL Supply Chain is rolling out the next phase of its Vision Picking Program following a successful trial of the augmented reality technology in the Netherlands. Since the trial, DHL and partners Google, Vuzix and Ubimax have refined the vision picking…
Tech-enhanced customer experiences have always had a very receptive audience in China, and as a result, VR technologies are being widely embraced by both brands and platforms. China has the world’s biggest ecommerce market and by 2020, it will dominate the…
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