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Oculus To Meta: 10 Years Of Mark Zuckerberg's Quest For VR

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From Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivering a Rift in Alaska in 2016 to his unceremonious dismissal a year later, Oculus inside Facebook faced a series of leadership changes ( Hugo Barra ), strategy shifts ( Facebook accounts required ), and accelerated hiring sprees. Despite those resources, Apple cancelled its car project.

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'Super Pumped' already renewed for a Season 2 that's all about Facebook

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But it's fair to assume there will be substantial differences from 2010's The Social Network , which didn't feature Sandberg as a character. Sandberg was instrumental in building the social media platform into the profitable, data-guzzling giant it is today, being responsible for developing Facebook's advertising strategy.

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Purina AR Campaign Achieves 172M Impressions

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This is a useful benchmark for perspective, but is of course apples to oranges with AR in terms of engagement levels. Think of it like mobile advertising in 2010. To put the 127 million into perspective, the Superbowl — often heralded as a high-water mark for campaign scale — usually reaches just under 100 million TV viewers.

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

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VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Apple – NASDAQ: AAPL – AR/VR headset. This list will mostly be made up of publicly traded companies that are confirmed to have a presence in VR. Unconfirmed.

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Another Google Glass Failure: What Happened to Google Iris?

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In 2010, the Google “X Development” initiative started looking for ways to improve life and everyday experiences for users in the digital world. Google’s fast-paced strategy also pushed the company to release a product prototype to the public to collect customer feedback. Let’s look at the facts. Google Glass was part of this vision.

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The inside story of how Tumblr lost its way

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As someone who drank in Tumblr’s ambrosia from 2010 to 2015, it’s pained me to watch its prospects dry up. There were a lot of opinionated people very high up in leadership guiding a lot of our decisions and strategy without understanding the user journey and impact that we could have in certain areas of growth.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

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The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Has been at the forefront when it comes to XR, earlier he was VP, Platform Strategy & Dev Community at #HTC and is currently working at Facebook Reality labs. Vinay is very active in the XR community, including board advisory, keynote speaker, and strategy guide.