Last month, ZeniMax officially dropped the lawsuit hammer on Oculus, accusing the virtual
reality company of «illegally misappropriating» their trade secrets in an extensive legal complaint.
Not exact matches
While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters
of Musk's space travel
company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a r
company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring
Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a r
Company will have to convince a number
of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a
reality.
The
reality: while you're at CES with hopes and dreams
of being the next big thing, so are hundreds
of other
companies and entrepreneurs.
The allure
of being your own boss is strong, but the
reality of running a high - growth startup is that the
company is your boss.
Our entire team, from entry - level staff to inhabitants
of the C - suite, believe we possess value and that what each one
of us brings to the table is what makes this
company's vision a
reality.
The best
companies to work for tend to have managers who see the
reality of the situation, and who are free to talk about their own mistakes as well as the mistakes
of others.
But after years
of secrets, the Securities & Exchange Commission shined a light on the
reality of the
company's day - to - day operations.
While it's more likely a team like this will have the experience necessary to expand your
company, the
reality of the situation is that this project isn't their baby.
(The
company declined «for competitive reasons» to reveal when it plans to equip other outlets with such gadgetry, but the
reality for the chain is that its dealers, who own their stores, have a long history
of resisting new, and potentially costly, merchandising ideas from head office.)
But the size
of the market we're pursuing — data centers, autonomous driving, video games and virtual
reality, industrial design — our technology is being used by almost every car
company, movie... so almost every data center in the world will be accelerated by GPUs.
You can fill a Kindle with management books and lean - startup manuals, but the
reality of building a
company is writing your own playbook and adapting that playbook to the obstacles — many
of them self - inflicted — that inevitably emerge.
Companies and institutions often appear monolithic from afar but the
reality is that they're nothing more than collections
of people trying their best to work together.
The
company's model
of sharing equity with its agency partners and willingness to invest in needed technology has made it an example
of how to do business in Adland amid the world's new economic
realities.
If you are seeking investment capital, you should be prepared for the
reality that you will need to sell your
company or bring in another round
of investors within five to 10 years.
Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle
company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents,
reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece
of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.
It grounds your idea in a sense
of reality; rather than speculating about how your
company could fit into the current market, you'll be proving it.
In the years since selling the label he founded, Branson, who is currently attempting to make commercial space travel a
reality, would go on to launch some
of the world's most innovative
companies.
Galimberti said there's some comfort in Canada being exempt, especially since at times it didn't look like it was going to happen, but overall
companies are having to get used to the new
reality of unpredictability.
The head
of virtual
reality at Ottawa - based e-commerce
company Shopify brought out the technology again when furnishing and renovating his home, using it to figure out where to place couches and tables without having to put in the manual labour.
Research released in September by communications
company Digital Bridge said a third
of consumers would be more likely to buy something after using mixed / augmented
reality to preview products, but more than half think retailers are failing to take full advantage
of the technology now available to them.
«In
reality, the majority
of organizations don't necessarily understand exactly where their profits are coming from, where their key missions are being driven from, and the key things they would need to be able to do and in what timeframe if that was disrupted,» says Lyndon Bird, international technical director
of the Caversham, England - based Business Continuity Institute, which provides business continuity certification and guidance for
companies around the world.
Notable
companies include navigation system Zurich Eye and eye - tracking tech startup the Eye Tribe — both
of which were acquired by Facebook's virtual
reality arm Oculus — and Terraloupe, an aerial image analytics startup.
«With sponsored lenses becoming a big hit, Snapchat is also the first
company that has monetized the beginning
of augmented
reality marketing.»
«I don't know what the board was thinking putting a half - time CEO in, but if your
company can not grow in a time
of political upheaval, you have a
reality TV president using it and is going completely rogue on the platform, then you will never grow,,» he said.
More pejoratively: The term «tech bro» also refers to a tech
company employee who acts entitled, lacks self - awareness and is tone deaf about sensitive issues such as the
realities of urban poverty.
The
company led its presentation with a trailer for Ghost
of Tsushima, a new game from Sucker Punch Productions, and also released previews for new virtual
reality games.
It's put billions
of dollars to work in ride - hailing
companies across the globe, including Uber and China's Didi Chuxing, and hundreds
of millions into start - ups in many other categories, including dog - walking
company Wag (it invested $ 300 million), food delivery provider DoorDash (it led a $ 535 million round), and virtual
reality infrastructure provider Improbable (it led a $ 502 million round).
Many
of Canada's managers understand this instinctively and the top performers — like many
of those on Canada's Best Managed
Companies list for 2018 — have built their businesses around that
reality.
The
company has already dipped its toe into the consumer market; it has launched an Android tablet, the N1, which went on sale in January in China and days ago unveiled a «virtual -
reality camera» - heralding it as the «rebirth
of Nokia».
While I don't believe the
reality is quite as intentionally malicious as that image portrays, the clear business model
of every social media
company is driven by one fundamental objective; understand your users better than they understand themselves, whatever it takes!
But the current
reality is this: While the number
of U.S.
companies owned by women is increasing faster than those
of other groups, those
companies are responsible for just 6 percent
of the country's employees and 4 percent
of revenue, according to a 2012 report commissioned by American Express Open.
The
reality is, and it's a sad one, consumers are used to receiving terrible service, so when your
company responds to their requests in a timely manner — which means at minimum, the same day — they will be absolutely shocked and will have the perception that your
company is one
of a kind.
My point is this: No matter how passionately you believe in your business, you've got to make the numbers work before you can turn your dream into the
reality of a large and profitable
company.
But the
company has stumbled plenty
of times in the past, and a watch doesn't preclude the development
of other types
of wearables, especially ones that might incorporate augmented
reality.
One
of the largest and most successful television production
companies in the U.S. Produces primetime series, late night and
reality programs for a variety
of platforms.
The
company is already engaging with some
of those governments on logistics, regulation, and financing to make its vision a
reality.
The
reality is that entrepreneurs should not pursue a social cause if doing so harms the mission and goals
of the
company, and they should certainly avoid doing so simply because it is fashionable.
For
companies with large fleets, virtual
reality is also proving to be a low - cost way
of delivering consistent training to drivers that are geographically spread out and unable to attend live courses at a
company's headquarters.
And the
reality is that they don't really understand what the buy situation is like at a lot
of these large
companies.»
Also, for the first time CES will have an augmented
reality exhibit, where
companies can show
of their latest innovations in the space.
In short, Spotify's competitive pressures are growing, and it is wise for the
company to list now when both the perception and
reality of its achievements are rosy in the eyes
of retail investors.
While Vice already produces a wide range
of news and
reality programs for Viceland, HBO, and online, the media
company has also been preparing for a bigger push into scripted content.
Creator
of virtual
reality software
company Oculus VR has proposed a virtual solution to the border wall.
In
reality, the team will consult with startup founders to create a plan
of execution based on a
company's needs.
Bret Gould and serial inventor Christopher Hawker — the entrepreneur whose
company, Trident Design, was behind the industrial design
of The Coolest cooler, which went on to become the most - funded Kickstarter campaign — has made that dream an awesomely fun
reality.
I would say probably the most — one
of the areas that changed the most is that there was a much more
of a hierarchical focus in
companies as I was entering the business world than today where we see much more
of a flat structure, a more egalitarian structure and the
reality is that the employees
of today are looking for that.
The technology hasn't really taken off yet in the consumer space, though Microsoft has received a lot
of coverage for its Hololens implementation (which the
company calls «mixed
reality»).
Oculus, the virtual
reality company Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, said on Wednesday that over one million people have used the Samsung Gear VR headset in April, which indicates that consumer use
of virtual
reality technology is growing.
Still, any sign
of traction in the virtual
reality market is important to
companies like Facebook, Samsung, and HTC who see a big business in virtual
reality in the future.
Although Facebook's (FB) $ 2 billion acquisition
of virtual
reality gear maker Oculus in 2014 represents the bulk
of VR investments since 2010, there are plenty
of other
companies looking to plow money into the technology.