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Speculations about Amazon’s home robots

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Following the recent projections of Google Nest’s growth, industry analysts have been looking for a spark from Amazon to create a fire. A tiny hiring notice from the company has shaken the home technology market with guesstimates. The online retail giant is speculated to have a secret team working on a years-old project of home robots that may be commercialized as soon as 2019. Along with strongholds in the fields of cloud computing and e-commerce, Amazon is seen as a tough competitor in the arena of hardware for smart homes. After Google’s parent company, Alphabet, freshly reported Nest to function sufficiently well as an independent subsidiary, there had been no comments from its peer’s side. But it was definitely witnessed with a ramped-up hiring process lately. And, the job descriptions have begun to plant hopes in the minds of the business analysts, for a high-utility home robot . What are the prototypes expected to be capable of? Being codenamed “Vesta” after the ...

Jedi Challenges: New technology level unlocked

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The behemoths of the digital gaming arena have exploited the available technology to give their users a world-class experience. Technology trends like augmented reality have greatly served this purpose and continue to support innovation in the field. The integration of virtual content with the user’s environment in real time with AR reveals endless possibilities. However, to have the best possible experience, these games usually require specialized hardware like headsets that are often quite expensive. The recent turn of events The global digital games market recently witnessed a stir from an event that could possibly end this problem.   One of Apple’s app developers, ARKit, recently introduced a new version of the existing AR based game, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges, to deliver a much more realistic experience without the use of hardware accessories!   The ARKit version of Holochess, a part of the aforementioned strategic combat game series, functions without the...