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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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Creature To Manage $1 Million Indie VR Fund From SideQuest

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Funding VR's Indie Expertise Back when the App Store for iPhone was coming together in 2008, the $200 million " iFund " was announced and managed by venture capitalists who offered equity deals to developers at a critical time in the development of mobile phones as a computing platform.

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VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million

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In lieu of any official statement from those in the know at Oculus, HTC, Samsung, Google, Sony or Valve, SuperData’s comprehensive approach serves as our most reliable glimpse yet into the state of these fledgeling product lines. The Apple iPhone , for example, sold only 1.39 million in 2008 and over 100 million in 2012.

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