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Newly Announced ‘Neuromancer’ TV Show Could Be Another Big Moment for VR to Make an Impact

Road to VR

Apple announced that it’s bringing a new show to Apple TV+ based on William Gibson’s award-winning cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984), offering another big moment for VR to take the limelight. And what does this mean to Joe Blow, Apple TV+ subscriber?

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Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

GizModo VR

At the heart of Epic Games’ case against Apple is the company’s 30% App Store commission and its iron rule over in-app purchases. We now know, thanks to internal documents unearthed through the Epic’s lawsuit, that Phil Schiller, the top executive in charge of App Store, had floated the idea of cutting its infamous… Read more.

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Nintendo President Says The Company Is Exploring New Ways To Use AR

VRScout

While commenting on the recent trend of major corporations such as Apple dipping their toes in the AR market, Furukawa expressed Nintendo’s own interest in exploring the rapidly-growing technology: Image Credit: Radomir Tinkov, Nintendo. If they determine that technology can be used with a game, then they will utilize it.

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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

Road to VR

Since its founding in 2011, Leap Motion has garnered over $94 million in outside funding. It seemed Leap Motion was on a continuous upward trajectory, however it was reported late last year that Apple was actually on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion , but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. ” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.

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The Best Smart Watches In 2023 / 2024: From Blood Sugar Monitoring To AI Personal Training

Bernard Marr

Apple popularized the smartwatch, just as it did with the smartphone when it released the Apple watch in 2015. Funded via a Kickstarter campaign in 2011, it was one of the first watches to pair with a smartphone to deliver notifications to your wrist. And who remembers the Pebble ?

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

AR Insider

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Major AR development platforms offer AR object persistence — Google Cloud Anchors , Apple GeoAnchors , Microsoft Spatial Anchors — that don’t talk to each other.

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