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Daily Crunch: Meta’s upcoming VR headset will track eye movements and capture facial expressions

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Image Credits: Sergei Chuyko (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Squadhelp CEO and founder Darpan Munjal shut down his previous company, a fashion e-commerce venture, after four years of “solid growth.” Learning from my failures: Lessons from a 2-time founder.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

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Extra Crunch roundup: China’s new data privacy law, fractional farming, debt vs. equity

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘global market uncertainties,’ Sea flatlines Shopee India

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Keeping abreast of what’s happening in the brain, brain.space remakes the EEG , aiming to make brain-wave measuring as easy as putting on a VR headset. Image Credits: malamus-UK (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. million round of financing to do so. Lantum got a $15 million injection to help ease that particular pain.

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

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By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. If Apple can’t make technology into a fashion statement, no one can. It supports iPhones, Windows, Linux, MacOS, and web browsers. Or maybe not.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

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This bottleneck is delaying features like custom fine-tuning the model, expanding the context window, and multimodality (i.e., Apple did it: they unveiled their AR/VR goggles. It’s hard to imagine wearing them in public, though Apple may manage to make them fashionable.

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Technology Trends for 2023

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In the cloud, Linux instances are much more widely used than the alternatives, though Windows is offered on Azure (of course) along with macOS. The past year saw a lot of excitement around VR, Web3, the metaverse, and related topics. It may depend on a new generation of VR products, both hardware and software.

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