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

Road to VR

Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode. So why Apple, and why now?

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Wearing Apple Vision Pro With Glasses Works, But It's Risky

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Despite Apple’s insistence that I do not wear Apple Vision Pro with my prescription glasses, I wanted to know if I could , so I could determine if I should. It’s now 2024, and both Meta and Amazon are members of the Vision Council, a group whose members "produce 90 percent of the prescription lenses worn in the U.S.".

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Apple Joins the Impending Avatar Wars With Memoji

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At Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple announced a new avatar system, dubbed ‘Memoji’, the company’s next step into the world of iPhone X animated emojis mapped to a user’s facial movements. Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat.

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Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap.

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Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap Hires Business Insider is reporting that the ever-popular tech giant made two key hires in recent weeks and months. The former is Yury Petrov, who reportedly came on board at Apple all the way back in June. Read more here.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

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70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez. Elsevier Science, 2013.

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What is Signal? The basics of the most secure messaging app.

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Signal is a free, privacy-focused messaging and voice talk app you can use on Apple and Android smartphones, and via desktop. You can text or make voice or video calls with friends, either one-on-one or in groups , and use emoji reactions or stickers just like in other apps. OK, so what is Signal?

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

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Urbanbase, founded in 2013 by chief executive officer and a former architect Jinu Ha, has now raised $20 million (approximately 23 billion won) in total. Apple also waded into the area of virtual reality, working on developing a high-end VR headset. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.