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

Road to VR

Abovitz founded Mako Surgical in 2004, and left the medical robot company when it was acquired by Stryker for $1.65 Image by Road to VR And unlike Microsoft, Apple’s primary focus on consumer hardware makes it the ideal “rising tide to lift all boats” when it comes to XR headsets.

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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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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 ! Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team. Presence Platform.

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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. If I were to scrap results off Google and place it on a webpage together with other information, is that illegal? It would be great if companies were to start taking notice: Valve, Epic Games, Bethesda, Mojang/Microsoft, etc…. As for the allow?