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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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Intel to Buy Imagination Technologies or AMD’s RTG?

VRWorld

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

The Ghost Howls

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? Presence Platform.

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