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Sleep Cycle adds ‘snore detection’ to its sleep-tracking Android app
Sleep-tracking app Sleep Cycle is bringing a new feature to its Android app to help snoring users track the sleep effects of their rather loud ailment. Sleep Cycle is a great little app that helps you
Alaska Airlines is trying to make VR part of its first-class experience
When it comes to public areas where you are most free to surrender self-awareness and self-consciousness, lounging on a multi-hour airline flight is probably prime territory. Coincidentally, it’
The long list of new Alexa devices Amazon announced at its hardware event
Everyone’s favorite trillion-dollar retailer hosted a private event today where they continued to exercise their highly strategic approach to hardware, which has them throwing everything at the
Facebook’s Camera AR platform head is coming to TC Sessions: AR/VR
Augmented reality has the potential to change how we interact with the internet; as these technologies scale, you can certainly bet that Facebook is going to be looking to shape what’s possible.
Walmart is putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in its stores to help train employees in VR
Workplace training has long been considered one of the key early areas where virtual reality can make a dent in the enterprise. Walmart already made some noise when it announced it would be bringing V
GoPro kills the Session camera cube
Three years after its introduction, GoPro is killing its Session camera line. The cute little cube was dropped today after GoPro revealed its latest lineup of Hero7 cameras. GoPro shakes up its entire
Review: With the Hero7 Black, GoPro looks towards stability
Any story about GoPro’s product line is also a story about the health of the public company and this year that story seems to be a more conservative one with the company’s new flagship dev
GoPro shakes up its entire camera line
GoPro delivered a big refresh of its cameras today with a lot of new product names but not quite as many hardware updates as we’ve seen in the past. The new lineup from GoPro is definitely less
Magic Leap One’s first big game is another Angry Birds; here’s what it’s like
Magic Leap promised us a world of dreams, we’re getting Angry Birds. After about a month in the public spotlight, the Magic Leap One is starting to get its first titles. Rovio and Resolution Gam
Here’s what Google’s $149 Home Hub smart display will reportedly look like
Google is reportedly getting ready to launch some new hardware at its October 9 hardware event and we just learned a lot more about a new product that might be launching. It was rumored that Google wa
Illumix raises $8.6M to build more dynamic phone-based AR games
As iOS12 drops, we are again reminded that phone-based AR is on hundreds of millions of phones but we still haven’t seen any big successes built on the new technologies. Illumix is hoping that i
Mozilla’s Firefox Reality web browser is now available
Mozilla’s vision of a VR-first web browser is ready for consumers to download and judge. Firefox Reality is a browser built entirely for virtual reality. While you may have read about desktop Fi
Hear how Oculus is minimizing VR’s content problem at TC Sessions: AR/VR
In 2018, VR adoption has plenty of demons to chase as it looks to build a larger, more mainstream audience. In 2017, the chief concern for most in the industry was the lack of content available for he
Shopify is bringing Apple’s latest AR tech to their platform
Shopify is leaning on phone-based AR to make online purchases look a little more lifelike for users. The Canadian commerce company announced today they have added support for AR Quick Look, one of App
Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: AR/VR in LA on October 18
TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving
Nintendo finally announces some new games for the Switch
Nintendo is at last (at last!) bringing some new content to the Switch! Yes! In a Nintendo Direct, the company let fly a number of games and a couple of original titles. The biggest Nintendo-produced
Everything Apple announced at its iPhone XS event
Today was Apple’s big hardware event, and the trillion-dollar company had quite a lot to share about the future of some of its most profitable product lines. While Apple boasted how its products
New iPhones courageously ditch the free headphone dongle
Apple is under the impression that its “courage” has already paid off and that it no longer needs to ship a headphone dongle with its new phones. Mission accomplished! The new iPhone XS an
Where the heck is Apple’s AirPower wireless charging mat?
With a full year since its last mention onstage at Apple’s last hardware event, Apple’s AirPower wireless charger mat is still missing. At the company’s iPhone event this morning in
Facebook’s ‘Rosetta’ system helps the company understand memes
Memes are the language of the web and Facebook wants to better understand them. Facebook’s AI teams have made substantial advances over the years in both computer vision and natural language rec