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Niantic squares up against Apple and Facebook with acquisition of AR startup 6D.ai

Even for the reason that pandemic forces Niantic to shift one of the simplest ways its outdoor-friendly titles are carried out, the gaming company is charging ahead with its efforts to build out an augmented reality platform which allows shoppers to interact with the real global. These days, the studio on the again of Pokémon Cross offered that it has…
Even as the pandemic forces Niantic to shift the way its outdoor-friendly titles are played, the gaming company is charging ahead with its efforts to build out an augmented reality platform which allows users to interact with the real world. Today, the studio behind Pokémon Go announced that it has…

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Author: Lucas Matney

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  5. "The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebooks products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantine lockdown". (April 29, 2020)
  6. "As consumer tech companies come under fire for how they handle voice data from consumers, Facebook is announcing changes to how users can manage recordings and transcriptions that are stored on Facebook’s services". (September 18, 2019)
  7. "Australian Facebook users will be forced to go elsewhere to read news after the company announced Wednesday that they will be restricting users in the country from sharing or viewing news links on the platform". (February 17, 2021)
  8. "Facebook’s relentless blatant feature copy of Snapchat have been seen as one of the chief examples of the company’s competitive overreach, but Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t sure whether antitrust activity from the government is going to change the company’s near-term prospects…". (October 4, 2019)
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