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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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. Oculus brands disappears.

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