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FORM’s Premium Goggles Introduce AR To The Swimming Pool

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I competed in two Olympic Games: 2004 and 2012,” added Scott Dickens, Director of Strategic Partnerships at FORM. “At The FORM Swim Goggles will begin shipping internationally August 7th starting at $199 ; the official FORM Swim app will be available to download that same day via the App Store and Google Play. Image Credit: FORM. “I

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

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Abovitz founded Mako Surgical in 2004, and left the medical robot company when it was acquired by Stryker for $1.65 billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode.

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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

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Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s It’s a very different way for people to interact with technology and data.

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Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro Leaves Google to Found.

AllThingsVR

Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro Leaves Google to Found Metaverse Startup Former Veoh CEO and Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro has left Google to work on a mysterious new startup that may be related to virtual or augmented reality. And in 2004, Shapiro founded one of the pioneering online video sites called Veoh.

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Kim Nevelsteen wants to bridge different virtual worlds to create the Metaverse

The Ghost Howls

I’ve been pondering solutions for a viable Metaverse since at least 2004. If I were to scrap results off Google and place it on a webpage together with other information, is that illegal? I wanted to interview Kim to ask him how he got to such a cool result, and here you are his answers on the topic. And from a business one?

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Top 37 VR Film Festivals to Attend in 2018

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Projects must be viewable via Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, or Google Cardboard. Since its inception in 2004, the festival has served as an influential platform for Arab filmmakers and talent at an international level. Film submissions for the 13th edition of DIFF, running from December 7–14, 2016, can be done here.

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