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Newly Announced ‘Neuromancer’ TV Show Could Be Another Big Moment for VR to Make an Impact

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Apple announced that it’s bringing a new show to Apple TV+ based on William Gibson’s award-winning cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984), offering another big moment for VR to take the limelight. And what does this mean to Joe Blow, Apple TV+ subscriber?

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

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Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Apple wasn’t the first to make a portable MP3 player, although it was the first to make one everyone wanted. Zooming out, Zune’s ultimate defeat belies a larger pattern of behavior.

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Apple Mulled Lowering Its App Store Commissions Way Back in 2011, Emails Show

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At the heart of Epic Games’ case against Apple is the company’s 30% App Store commission and its iron rule over in-app purchases. We now know, thanks to internal documents unearthed through the Epic’s lawsuit, that Phil Schiller, the top executive in charge of App Store, had floated the idea of cutting its infamous… Read more.

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Elon Musk Says He Wanted to Sell Tesla to Apple But Tim Cook Wouldn't Take the Meeting

GizModo VR

But Elon Musk really wanted to sell the company to Apple back in the days when Tesla was struggling. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple since 2011, wouldn’t even sit down for a meeting with Musk to discuss… Read more. Electric car maker Tesla is soaring high, with a $606.9 billion market cap and a stock price that’s up 813% this year.

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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

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Since its founding in 2011, Leap Motion has garnered over $94 million in outside funding. It seemed Leap Motion was on a continuous upward trajectory, however it was reported late last year that Apple was actually on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion , but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

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IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market. It should also be pointed out that, as is the case for every market researcher, predictions can easily be wide of the mark.

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Can Gowalla Reinvent AR (and Itself)?

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” It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. He’s joined this time by Piemonte (mentioned above) who previously worked at Apple as an interface designer and founded AR startup, Mirage. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action… this time with an AR focus.

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