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

Road to VR

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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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap.

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

Road to VR

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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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing. I think Magic Leap calls it the Magicverse. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I do a lot with Apple technology. So we set up a website called iPadEducators.com, which went on to win an award, and it led to both of us becoming Apple distinguished educators. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.