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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Azure Cloud Platform competes alongside AWS and Google Cloud. Breaking the Zune Curse?

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Magic Leap Founder Rony Abovitz to Step Down as CEO

Road to VR

I have been leading Magic Leap since 2011 (starting in my garage). I will remain our CEO through the transition and am in discussions with the board with regards to how I will continue to provide strategy and vision from a board level. We have been actively recruiting candidates for this role and I look forward to sharing more soon.

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Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

Road to VR

HTC has been in financial difficulty for the past few years, with stock prices falling since their all-time high in 2011. The company took measures recently by combining it’s ailing smartphone business with its VR division , coming shortly after the company sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1

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

Bernard Marr

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. Google Pixel Watch 2 Rumors have it that the second iteration of Google's smartwatch will feature an enhanced version of the Body Response stress detection system featured in the Fitbit Sense 2.

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AviWorlds back with new business model featuring Second Life

Hypergrid Business

Since early 2011, owner Alexsandro Pomposelli has experimented with being the most expensive grid , and with offering land for free. He is based in Brazil, and can be found on Google Plus as Dex Web and on Facebook as DexWeb.xyz. In addition to the new business partner, there’s also a new business strategy.

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Technology Transfer

Doc-Ok

So, a winning strategy. Googling for “measure ipd mirror ruler” brought up a bunch of results predating my article, such as this one from 2012, this video from 2011, and some with, again, prettier diagrams , and even one by a sometimes reader of my blog ! I should have consulted the Googles back then.

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Experiencing Immersive Art in Colorado

Tech Trends VR

The pavilion space will also prominently feature a retrospective of large-format Augmented Reality artworks from 2011-2018 by HEAVY , a multiple award-winning creative studio that specializes in using immersive technology to reclaim public spaces for civic engagement, enlightened interactivity, and fun & thoughtful experiences.

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