Magic Leap Demo; New Pebble Watch; and more [Weekly Mobile Newsletter]

March 2, 2015 Weekly Mobile Newsletter

TECHNOLOGY What It’s Like to Try Magic Leap’s Take on Virtual Reality A startup is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery.Availability: 1-3 years       NEWS Pebble’s New Smart Watch Has Color Display and Long Battery Life As the Apple Watch casts a shadow across the smart-watch market, Pebble preps a wrist-worn gadget with a color e-paper display.

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NEWS On Facebook and Elsewhere, App Advertising is Booming App ads account for more than half of Facebook’s mobile revenue—and they show how the ad market is changing.       NEWS Nanotech Converts Conventional LCDs into Glasses-Free 3-D Displays Startup aims to give mobile devices the power to display full-color holographic images and video.     NEWS Chips with Flexible Circuits Could Make the Cloud More Powerful and Smartphones Longer-Lasting Software upgrades that can change the circuitry of the silicon chips inside computing devices could make them more powerful.     VIEW Recommended from Around the Web (Week Ending February 28, 2015) A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.     VIEW Seven Stories You Shouldn’t Miss (Week Ending February 28, 2015) Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.     VIEW EmTech Digital Preview: 10 Breakthrough Technologies Our June event in San Francisco offers access to the people behind our 10 Breakthrough Technologies, including insiders from Magic Leap and Google’s Project Loon.     VIEW Look Past Net Neutrality: FCC Decision on Community Broadband Is More Meaningful The decision in favor of municipal broadband networks does more than “open Internet” rules ever could to increase competition in a broken market.     SEE MORE STORIES »

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