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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

Road to VR

Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” Abovitz founded Mako Surgical in 2004, and left the medical robot company when it was acquired by Stryker for $1.65 So why Apple, and why now?

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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

VRScout

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

The company is based in Bloomington, Indiana and has the mission of creating engaging AR and VR applications about the world’s cultural heritage sites and monuments. The digitization was accomplished in 2004 with generous support from the Andrew W. Is it really true that this is a project that has born 22 years ago?

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Mega-roundup of Facebook Connect 2: all the news in a single place!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus” name was a problem because AR/VR is so huge that its related product should have fallen under the main brand of the company, to make it clear whose are those products. Yes, it is a game from 2004, but entering GTA in VR will be tons of fun ! And so it happened. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

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