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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

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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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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

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Since the introduction of devices such as the Fitbit back in 2009 and the Apple Watch in 2014, the smart wearables market has gone from fantasy to reality, offering consumers a brand new, more convenient method for connecting with their digital lives. Image Credit: FORM. “I

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Five Universal Tasks of 3D User Interfaces with Doug Bowman

Road to VR

Virtual and augmented reality represent a new immersive computing paradigm where the equivalent 3D user interfaces are being continually refined as there is a burst of innovation with new input devices. As of early 2016, he’s reportedly now working with Apple on AR/VR research.

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

The Ghost Howls

Yes, it is a game from 2004, but entering GTA in VR will be tons of fun ! Talking about augmented reality, Zuck has said that Meta is following two different approaches: On one side, they are taking the small form factor of everyday glasses and see how much technology they can put in it. I’m very curious about its consequences.

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