The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

is back for a special episode all about virtual dating in 2020. For this episode, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I talk to online daters and Bumble’s VP of strategy about how they’re adapting to virtual-only dating. They try to figure out what, if any, features and behaviors will stick around after social distancing and the pandemic end.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale February 2, but it will take some time before people figure out what to do with it. Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple’s mixed reality headset heralds a new era of “spatial computing.” It’s not clear what Apple thinks you should do with its mixed reality headset right now.

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Gizmodo

JULY 27, 2021

While Facebook and Apple haven’t been on the best terms as of late, the social media giant is reportedly considering letting Oculus users sync up their workout data to Apple Health, according to Bloomberg. Read more.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cook has been singing the praises of AR for five years Tim Cook has just marked 10 years as Apple’s CEO , and while he’s grown Apple into the most valuable company in the world, it’s reasonable to argue he hasn’t yet introduced a signature, industry shaking product like Apple co-founder Steve Jobs did with the iPhone, iPad, Mac and more.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 6, 2023

At WWDC 2023, Apple unveiled a number of improvements and advances, but the Vision Pro Headset’s cutting-edge technology undoubtedly captured the attention of everyone in the entire world. This was in keeping with Apple’s traditional wait-and-see approach. If you wonder what awaits us, keep reading the article!

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Epic Games took on Apple and Google in a very public way last week to protest what it believes are monopolistic app store policies. Epic typically puts a lot of effort into hyping events by plastering notices in-game and on social media to let players know that something is coming. Image: Epic Games.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

But the social network also stressed that any payments made on iOS would be subject to Apple’s standard 30 percent platform fees, noting this meant less money for small businesses. Small businesses can use Facebook Pay, avoiding Apple’s 30 percent cut. But Apple reportedly blocked the update as “irrelevant.”.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2023

American football fans who use the Rec Room social gaming app can now grab their favorite team’s gear for their in-app avatars, just in time for the NFL playoffs. RELATED: Why avatar-based social gaming app Rec Room doesn’t consider itself a ‘metaverse’ company. (Rec Room Image).

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Apple’s cloud ban and Fortnite feud have made it gaming’s latest villain Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. Join the fight to stop 2020 from becoming ‘1984.’”.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

Apple the trial for you! Roblox, explained Apple’s marketing manager Trystan Kosmynka, was an app. A screenshot of Roblox on the Apple App Store, as of May 7 at 8PM ET. But here’s the problem for Apple: if Roblox is a game, then it’s fairly easy for Epic to compare Fortnite to it. Had he used Fortnite?

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Computerworld Vertical IT

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Be careful when you follow the virtual path. Think of the ugly consequences of Facebook and social conditioning , of artificial intelligence on employment, or even the security implications of having your entire life on a smartphone in an era also defined by NSO Group. The optimism of good intention is one thing.

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Apple trial’s big keywords is “cross-wallet play.”. The latter platform doesn’t get a cut of your initial, non-virtual financial transaction, which is why Nintendo and Sony don’t support cross-wallet access on the Switch and PlayStation. All argued that Apple’s tightly managed App Store forced customers to use clunky workarounds.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Just today, Apple announced it will offer curbside pickup or appointment-based service at over 70 more stores in the United States this week, including the Fifth Ave “cube” and other New York City locations. And it has continued to offer virtual workshops for customers. Photo by Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Image: Apple. On September 15th, Apple announced its new at-home workout platform, Fitness Plus. Welcome to the world of digital fitness, @Apple.”. Subscribers, who are required to have an Apple Watch and iPhone, will have access to a library of virtual classes, which they can stream through iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs.

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CTOvision

JUNE 6, 2016

After acquisition by Google, Nest got "virtually unlimited budget", quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica). Elon Musk is making a big mistake about the Apple Car - Business Insider. Hackers claim hijack of Mark Zuckerberg's social-networking accounts - CNET.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It has the biggest camera sensor of any iPhone, including the three other iPhone 12 models Apple announced this year. I think the size is a reflection of increased choice: this year Apple has more phone sizes available than ever before, including the diminutive iPhone 12 mini , so it had the ability to push the Max even farther.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple ’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have spread like an annoying chain letter across police department Facebook pages over the past few days. These warnings were misleading, but social media posts about online threats to kids don’t have to be true to get views.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 11, 2011

I’m at the launch meeting of the social media community of practice set up by Institute of Public Administration NSW (IPAA). At the conference I wrote about the case study of Queensland Police , which is a great example of government bodies creating value through social media. Here are a few live notes from the event. .

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Vox

AUGUST 31, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in which people interact with each other using avatars and AR/VR technology — investing tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to build the platforms and hardware that captures a new generation of users.

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Vox

MAY 31, 2023

So why does Apple want to show them off? Every big, new Apple Product Launch follows a template, one the company pioneered and perfected with the iPhone and then the iPad. The hype crests as Apple unveils The Product at A Big Deal launch event, and then customers flock to buy The Product by the millions. Not yet, anyway.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

Bad actors use virtual cameras, emulators, and other tools to circumvent cameras, microphones, or fingerprint sensors and fool systems into believing they’ve received true data. This way, IT organizations can also shut down human social engineering vectors that circumvent or exploit IDV processes.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Humans are deeply social animals. For many people it is their primary place for social interaction. The office designs of Pixar and Apple’s ‘spaceship’, for example, were specifically shaped to enable these kinds of connections. Human connection. We need to interact regularly with people.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook is bringing the office to VR with Horizon Workrooms It wasn’t long into a recent press briefing I attended in virtual reality when Mark Zuckerberg showed up to talk about the metaverse. It’s the social network’s first stab at creating a VR experience specifically for people to work together in.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak turns 70 years old today, and you can celebrate by attending his celebrity-studded virtual birthday party that’s happening in just a few hours at 8PM ET. Today’s party also kicks off an “11 Days of Wozdom” social media contest offering Woz-autographed Apple products as prizes.

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Vox

APRIL 18, 2021

Sources say the social network is planning to announce a series of products — some of which won’t appear for some time — under the umbrella of “social audio” on Monday. A Clubhouse-like product that will let groups of people listen to and interact with speakers on a virtual “stage.”. Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) March 16, 2021.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Yes, there was a game called Omikron: The Nomad Soul, starring a virtual David Bowie, released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows. Suggesting that Bill Gates had anything to do with it is like calling Apple CEO Tim Cook the mastermind behind Facebook because the social network runs on iPhone. No, the game was not made by Microsoft.

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The Verge

JANUARY 5, 2021

The ambitious game had aimed to rival Pokémon Go and cover the world in virtual blocks for players to meet and play together. Minecraft Earth aimed to cover the world in virtual blocks. Before the game’s release, Apple even invited Microsoft onstage at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to demonstrate the new title.

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The Verge

AUGUST 30, 2021

TikTok parent company ByteDance is acquiring Chinese virtual reality headset maker Pico. Pico is known for its Neo lineup of standalone virtual reality headsets, most recently the Pico Neo 3. ByteDance is known primarily as a social app company, thanks to global juggernaut TikTok and China-based Douyin.

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GeekWire

MARCH 26, 2024

Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Hooper, who previously led virtual reality startup Vreal and also founded Zipline Games and Napera Networks, is listed on the filing. Its product was similar to game streaming sites like Amazon’s Twitch, but for virtual reality. Veteran Seattle tech entrepreneur Todd Hooper has raised investment for a stealthy new startup.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This is no small feat given that Microsoft wasn’t even part of FAANG , the name Jim Cramer coined in 2013 for the tech stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) driving the market and consumer mindshare. Microsoft’s valuation surged from $300 billion to $3 trillion, rivaling Apple as the world’s most valuable company.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This past weekend marked the first Sunday of the 2021 NFL season, and while it was full of exciting highlights, one may have towered over them all: the Carolina Panthers’ viral video of a giant virtual panther leaping around Bank of America Stadium. The video is ridiculous. The animations are intended to air live.

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The Verge

JUNE 7, 2021

Image: Apple. Apple’s hosting its second all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference this year, and it seems like the company plans to squeeze in even more hardware announcements alongside its usual software updates. Apple is streaming the event live on its website and on YouTube. WHERE CAN I WATCH WWDC 2021?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Facebook’s Connect conference is one of the biggest days of the year for virtual reality. Godin is the developer of Virtual Desktop, a top-selling VR app that enables desktop computer access inside headsets. By Godin’s reckoning, it would be the second time Facebook had pulled the rug from under Virtual Desktop.

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Galido

MARCH 19, 2019

These areas of IT include general IT and technology, security, IT feeds, cloud computing, data center, mobile, social media, tips and tricks, virtualization, and operating system and software blogs. Slashdot is a social news website that originally billed itself as “News for Nerds. Apple Insider. 9 to 5 Mac.

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Vox

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will be taking a major step to making its virtual reality metaverse avatars more lifelike: by giving them legs. But seriously, legs are hard, which is why other virtual reality systems don’t have them either.”. I know you’ve been waiting for this.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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