Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

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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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

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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Upload VR

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Realizing true telepresence in consumer hardware may be one of the hardest ideas to prepare for consumers. In film, you feel comfortably immersed in the story looking at something like the cute Baymax robot but constantly distracted looking at more human-like faces in heavily motion captured works like the 2004 film The Polar Express.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

Contrary to the popular belief, Intel has no other choice but to continue the cross-licensing agreement with Nvidia, since Intel does not use GeForce hardware in its line-up, but was rather found to infringe on Nvidia’s patents. You can read more in my old analysis on Tom’s Hardware. This was solved with a $1.5

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 17, 2022

For this to work, the hardware has to be good enough for grandma to be able to buy it on a pension, put it on out of the box and it just works, and it does not make her sick to her stomach in 5-20 minutes due to the low frame rates and quality. As I have said before, not all platforms currently being worked on will survive this period.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The layoffs would mark the end to an era of unprecedented growth at the company-formerly-known-as-Facebook that’s continued since its founding in 2004. Of course, Meta also faces renewed competition with Pico , Sony , and Apple among the companies developing VR headsets targeting different markets and regions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Are you ready?

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