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WSJ Tech News Briefing

Why Apple’s Vision Pro Is Struggling to Attract App Developers

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Apple’s mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, has struggled to attract killer apps in its first year. Analysts say sales are lower than expected. WSJ reporter Aaron Tilley joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss why app developers haven’t embraced the Vision Pro. Plus, researchers are working to grow body tissue in the lab. We’ll tell you how the tech works. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It It's Friday, October 18th.

0:23.8

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:27.0

Researchers are working to grow heart valves, lungs,

0:30.8

and more from human cells.

0:33.0

We'll tell you about the tech one company has developed

0:36.0

and how it could make a difference to patients.

0:39.0

And then, Apple's Mixed Reality headset,

0:42.0

The Vision Pro, is struggling to attract major software makers to develop apps for the device.

0:48.0

Our reporter Aaron Tilly will be here to explain why Appmakers aren't jumping into this new ecosystem, what that means for device

0:56.1

sales.

0:57.1

But first, lab-grown blood vessels could offer doctors a drastically different way to treat traumatic injuries and circulation problems.

1:09.0

This lab-grown tissue is more likely to be accepted by the body than synthetic grafts made of plastic, and more

1:16.0

accessible if a surgeon doesn't have time to harvest a blood vessel from a different part of the

1:20.8

patient's body.

1:21.8

Here to tell us more is our reporter Liz

1:24.3

Leslie White. Liz researchers have brought some body tissue to market such as

1:29.3

knee cartilage and skin grafts but what's holding up the more complicated anatomy?

1:34.8

So there are all kinds of challenges to doing this.

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