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Augmented Reality: The time has come

etventure

AR, in general, requires a combination of hardware and software tools to connect the different levels. Personally, I remember the first time I used an AR application in 2009 when I euphorically installed the App AR-Maps on my iPhone 3G. In the spirit of MVP, the solution was flawed and fragile, but indisputably innovative.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

Over the next ten years Apple sold over 320 million iPods and as they introduced more products such as the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2009 which, at the time of publishing this article, have both respectively sold 421 million and 170 million units their annual revenues grew from $5 Billion to an eye watering $171 Billion.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

One of the most common questions I get asked when talking to companies about their issues with innovation is “how do we prevent someone stealing our ideas? And worse than that, in many cases it is being abused by companies in ways which actually discourage innovation completely. The least innovative place in the world.

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