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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. They found medical companies that were more interested in how precise those hand controllers could be, so they started doing demos, like a virtual catheter insertion and other kinds of medical training demos. And that was with controllers. Have you had a chance to try those?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B At a Fortune magazine technology conference in Aspen, CMO Brian Wallace and CEO Rony Abovitz (who sold his surgical robot company for $1.65B in 2013) got on stage to fuel the fire on the hype train.