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According to a report from Business Insider , earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring LeapMotion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. According to the report, this is the second time in some six years that Apple had conversations with the company about an acquisition.
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This way you can exclude some hardware failure. This confirmed that I had some problems with SteamVR installation and was not a matter of hardware. LeapMotion driver and runtime. Older Apple Cinema displays with devices attached through USB. If then everything works, you’re fine. Otherwise, go on.
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Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.
Varag: Yes, so Clay's-- we're hardware agnostic. So we feel -- like you said -- this is software that really needs to be optimized for the hardware that it's working on. Varag: Especially because every maker has got to print hardware make-up, in a sense. So it'll work across all those types you just said. It's pretty quick.
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