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TSMC to Build Japan's Most Advanced Semiconductor Fab

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Intel was getting ready to introduce its first 65nm chips in early 2006 and all of a sudden Panasonic said that it had started volume production of the world's first application processors using a 65 nm technology, which it co-developed with Renesas, putting Panasonic a couple of months ahead of mighty Intel.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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in seed funding to release a development kit of their Reactive Grip VR controller. Founded in 2006, UK-based independent virtual reality gaming development studio nDreams has raised £2.0M (just under $2.5M) in funding. NOKIA AND SONY GET TOGETHER FOR 360 VIDEO. …and more. GET A 3RD ARM IN VR WITH STANFORD RESEARCH TEAM.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. Putting it All Together.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

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Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Couple that with what we can safely assume was an impressive laboratory demo (in a controlled environment), and he was able to raise a staggering amount of money. They recently closed a $22M round co-led by Sony and Foxconn.

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This is How Fake News Happens: The Reporting of Palmer Luckey and Nimble America

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s shitposting on 4chan in 2006 are today’s silicon valley billionaires buying elections for lulz. Another Twitter user wrote “I’m cancelling Touch support in my game as long as Palmer works for Oculus” along with a photo directing the middle finger at the as-yet unreleased controllers.”. The Vive has controllers out today.

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