Facebook’s drones, Samsung’s virtual reality studio, GM’s Maven car sharing and more.
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Facebook’s drones, Samsung’s virtual reality studio, GM’s Maven car sharing and more.
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You didn’t think Samsung was going to sit back and let VR take over the world without it building a VR movie studio in New York, did you?
What’s as wide as a Boeing 737, can float for months, and has more antennas than a Radio Shack circa 1992? Facebook’s aerial wi-fi drone, which you should totally have a look at.
As virtual reality accelerates in both popularity and potential, Apple’s hedging its bets by hiring Virginia Tech’s own Doug Bowman to handle VR innovation at the company.
GM is utterly destroying past notions of itself by launching Maven, a radical new car-sharing service that could very well alter the way we consider auto ownership over the next decade.
The company known for near-free mobile service has made the international leap, offering a MiFi with dirt-cheap data that’ll work in 25 (and growing) countries.
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