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Leaked Input Device May Explain Why Investors Just Dropped $120 Million into Thalmic Labs

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Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The patent also focuses heavily on examples of the types of input that this new device is capable of detecting. for use as input data.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

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So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

And training is a good example. And I think they’re a fantastic example of what’s been going wrong in this industry, which was here’s our great new technology. So let’s go back to your training example, because I think it’s a brilliant one. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR’s Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

And training is a good example. And I think they’re a fantastic example of what’s been going wrong in this industry, which was here’s our great new technology. So let’s go back to your training example, because I think it’s a brilliant one. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures.

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Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. I wonder-- you started off life as a gesture armband.

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Using XR to Change Everything (Without Changing Anything) with Lance-AR's Lance Anderson

XR for Business Podcast

And training is a good example. And I think they're a fantastic example of what's been going wrong in this industry, which was here's our great new technology. So let's go back to your training example, because I think it's a brilliant one. Hand gesture control, hand using hand gestures. Makes perfect sense.

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