Dowell Myers, a professor of urban planning and demography at the University of Southern California, said the state's growth has been a "roller coaster, " but he doesn't expect the ride to go back up in the future.

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The PR1, for instance, had a motor from an Aura Interactor embedded on the back, but Luckey found the force feedback too painful, and didn't carry the tweak over to future models.

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