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THE OCULUS QUEST still seems to be dominating the VR arena, selling headsets as fast as Facebook can make them and showing ‘console-like sales results’ on the Oculus Quest app store. This is generating innovation and continues to drive mass market applications to the new headset. There’s a few innovations for the true techies this month, with an AR circuit board debugging smartphone app and an autocomplete AI software for coding languages offering up free beta services. Machine learning is seemingly getting into the hospitality game with a new robot bartender called Barsys 2.0 that’s shaking up the cocktail world and an IBM Watson spinoff that hopes to brew the world’s most popular beer.

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Barsys 2.0

THE ROBOTIC BARTENDER GETS SOME AI SMARTS.

US$1,500 | barsys.io

Barsys is a pricey robotic bartender that stirred its first

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