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

Road to VR

.” With the entrance of Apple Vision Pro, one such entity to follow suit is Stryker’s Mako , a robotic surgery group initially founded as a standalone company by Rony Abovitz, the founder and first CEO of AR unicorn Magic Leap. billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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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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Google creates VR montage of Pride parades around the.

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Google creates VR montage of Pride parades around the world Google has launched a new project to bring Pride parades around the world to people who can’t physically be there. According to a Pew Research Center study in 2013, more than half of the 1,197 adult LGBTQ individuals they surveyed have never gone to one.

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Funding Roundup: Google Acquires Eyefluence, Oblong Industries.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: Google Acquires Eyefluence, Oblong Industries Raises $65M & InContext Raises $15.2M Google buys Eyefluence , a company that specializes in turning eye movements into virtual actions, to boost its VR hardware. The eye-tracking interface startup founded in 2013 had raised $21.6M

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

Mashable VR

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. Though a small group of privacy activists created Signal in 2013, it has grown in recent years. All you need is a phone number to join. Is the Signal app secure?

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AR Headset Startup CastAR is Reportedly Shutting Down

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” Following the initial article revealing CastAR’s woes, Polygon has since updated their report to clarify that a “core group of employees are working to try and sell the existing technology.” The recent screen-based AR solutions (such as Google Tango and Apple’s phone and tablet AR ) and a number of AR headsets.

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Educators sour on virtual worlds

Hypergrid Business

Another discussion group, the official Second Life Educators forum , has only had 214 posts since it launched in 2013. Improved import and export capabilities including import and export of collaborative and group work projects.” Image courtesy Google Expeditions.).