"It needs to be an entire platform, not just a developer kit with an SDK, " he says.
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The biggest: a software developer kit for the AppleTV set top box.
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The bulk of the keynote address was taken up by developers showing off applications they'd built for the iPhone using a software developer kit Apple introduced in March.
Earlier this week, fresh screenshots of the Durango XDK (the developer kit) leaked, and pointed to the next-generation Xbox console requiring all games to be installed to the hard drive.
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Officially unveiled on May 21, the Leap immediately caught the attention and imagination of consumers, developers and media around the globe, spawning nearly overwhelming numbers of pre-orders and developer kit requests from over 150 countries.
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Its PIPA Touch scanner can add biometric authentication to phones' lock screens, websites and other tasks through a developer kit, and a modular design lets it slip into cases for the Android, iOS and Windows Phone devices that should receive support.
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If your own ambitions don't stretch that far, you can still build the VR2GO viewer, which uses iPhones and iPod touch players as the eyepieces, as well as mods for the Oculus Rift developer kit that add stereo cameras or increase the field of view.
That event, however, will likely detail the widely anticipated release of a software developer's kit for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.
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