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Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.
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