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But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of headmounteddisplays is really important.
But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of headmounteddisplays is really important.
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Alan: One of the tools that I think we're just starting to see come online is eyetracking and motion tracking, where we're really able to get data points about humans that we've never had before. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounteddisplay could cost $70,000. Walter: Absolutely.
Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eyetracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. And it was so expensive, and a head-mounteddisplay could cost $70,000.
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