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batye
5/9/2016 2:37:52 AM
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Re: facebook exec
@mpouraryan thank for the link, interesting to know...
Re: 'tever
If VR is going to be more than a cute trick for consumers to play with, it's got to get to work on things that make it essential to other businesses. Making the advances in medical imaging of the last 40 years easily available at the small-and-remote clinic level certainly qualifies as a shrewd business initiative.
Making it sound like anything other than a simple choice of target market, however, is merely good corporate PR. The next frontier might be military or police, i.e. killing more people or controlling more dissent via remote; it might be better circuses to go with the bread; it might be better control for hazardous-environment drones to get human bodies out of fighting fires and deep rock mining; almost anything, really. This particular frontier just happens to lend itself to a successful PR initiative.
Re: facebook exec
@mpour: I think we all realize by now that mega-companies can wither and die.
Unless, of course, they're in an industry deemed important enough to qualify for a bailout. ;)
mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 10:36:12 AM
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Meh.
Sounds like just a normal "I'm done with this project" move to me. The "curing diseases" part is just some PR euphemism. Going to work on another wearable tech project is probably a far less stressful job than staying at FB and trying to make Oculus into a viable revenue stream for a social media platform....
Re: Meh.
I guess none of us know her motivation for leaving, but she seems to have a history of being a do gooder. From the CNET article:
Jepsen is no stranger to charitable causes. She was a co-founder of the One Laptop Per Child, an initiative that aims to provide low-costlaptops to children in developing countries, as well as lead inventor and architect of the $100 laptop.
jbtombes
5/9/2016 10:45:31 AM
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Re: 'tever
She's leveraged her unique set of skills (EE and visual arts at Brown before the Ph.D) for FB, Google before that, and One Laptop Per Child, as Mike mentions, the non-profit that redesigned computers for affordability.
clrmoney
5/9/2016 11:04:03 AM
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facebook exec
I think she is making the right choice by leaving faceook to be bigger and better things.
jbtombes
5/9/2016 11:05:50 AM
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Re: Reality check?
Well put @dcawrey. If this venture is about replacing MRIs with wearables, then I'd guess Siemens and GE are paying close attention. Not that others are incapable of shaking up the medical device industry. Google has developed a contact lens that can test for blood sugar levels that's supposed to be going into clinical trials this year.
mhhf1ve
5/9/2016 2:15:46 PM
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Re: Reality check?
> "If this venture is about replacing MRIs with wearables.."
I'm wondering.. is it really about shrinking MRI? It's going to be pretty tricky to get high resolution magnetic resonance images from a "small" magnetic field because -- according to the physics -- the higher the magnetic field, the higher the resolution... And it's not that easy to get what usually takes a large superconducting magnet -- into a small "wearable" size. That would be a major breakthrough in itself!
Perhaps this is more about getting imaging from something that's not quite MRI, but somehow related? If MRI machines could be portable and small... I'm sure there would be a lot more applications in security lines and other fields, too.
Maybe this is more about getting all kinds of medical imaging into a "wearables" size -- like ultrasound combined with some kind of very low level "CT scan"?
Ariella
5/9/2016 3:37:00 PM
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Re: Reality check?
@mhhf1ve this is just the kind of thing that makes Eric Topol such a fan of technology. He was quoted (well, paraphrased if you want to be technical about) here, http://www.radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcare-economics/smartphone-disruptive-medicine, saying that a handheld MRI is on the way: "Of great relevance to radiology: Most medical imaging devices are undergoing miniaturization, beginning with ultrasound and Topol says hand-held MRI is not far behind. UCLA has devised a smartphone-sized device that can generate x-rays, he reports."
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