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Retail Asia12/06/2017

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 told that the firm could “absolutely” compete with the likes of Amazon in the digital voice assistant market space. […]

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Retail Asia02/06/2017

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 respondents saying they’ve used VR or AR technology in the past three months. […]

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Retail Asia16/02/2017

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 fashionable to use wearable devices in China, dropping to 27 […]

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Retail Asia03/02/2017

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 Zuckerberg via his Facebook page last Wednesday. “I’m excited that Hugo Barra is joining Facebook […]

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Retail Asia24/01/2017

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 and content creators are promised the ability to experience and […]

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Retail Asia07/12/2016

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 Player SDK into Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Privilege Plus app, available through Google Play. “VR […]

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Retail Asia02/11/2016

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 and cosmetics counter a reality. Gone […]

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Retail Asia01/11/2016

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 e-commerce has grown explosively over the past 20 years, blurring boundaries between online […]

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Retail Asia29/10/2016

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 are developing a prototype mobile edge computing VR live video technology using Artesyn Embedded Technologies’ MaxCore […]

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Retail Asia09/10/2016

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 audiences because not everyone has thousands of dollars needed to set up an Oculus Rift or […]

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Retail Asia30/09/2016

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 solution and DHL is now expanding the program across different industry sectors on a […]

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Retail Asia01/09/2016

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 retail sector also, according to PwC. The sheer size of the country’s retail consumer market is […]

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Retail Asia21/06/2016

Tata Communications has launched a new competition focused on how VR and AR technologies can make Formula 1 racing more immersive for fans. The 2016 F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize is also designed to help the teams work more effectively together in the run-up to and during each Grand Prix. The aim of the $50,000 prize […]

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Retail Asia15/06/2016

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Just days after its CEO stepped down, Silicon Valley virtual reality company Jaunt said it has started producing VR content in China for worldwide distribution. Jaunt has received $100 million in funding, including millions from Disney. The new operation was formed in partnership with Chinese media giants Shanghai Media Group and China Media Capital. The former […]

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Retail Asia11/05/2016

At CES Asia 2016, which opens today, Isobar will be showcasing BVRAIN and UMood, two marketing innovations from Isobar, which demonstrate the agency’s capabilities in leveraging new technologies to provide brands with innovative marketing solutions. BVRAIN are VR goggles that visualize the activity and emotions of the human brain. After a short scanning process, users […]

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Retail Asia30/03/2016

The global virtual reality market to grow at a rate of 96% by 2019, according to a new report made available by Research and Markets. VR is being adopted in a wide variety of applications ranging from healthcare, gaming devices, public entertainment, prototype creation to military exercises. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has now set up […]

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Retail Asia24/02/2016

Virtual Reality, as a concept, has been around for over 50 years. In the beginning, it was literally the stuff of science fiction. Then in the early 90’s it actually became reality, when physical prototypes were developed, using the modern technology of the era. The results were underwhelming – imagine pixelated graphics and heavy, nausea […]

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Retail Asia29/09/2015

Virtual Reality has been a popular subject lately in Asia, although not new to virtual reality, Orb Vr Labs was founded in 2014 by five passionate veterans of film, VFX, post production, telecom and product design. Based in Bangkok with an R&D office in Chang Mai, Orb VR Labs has set out to create new […]

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