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The World of Mobile VR After Pokemon Go

VRWorld

Perhaps it is only just that Google’s April Fools joke named “Pokemon Challenge” became the most popular, or one of most popular games on the market – the Pokemon Go , This Augmented Reality (AR), or Mixed Reality (MR or MxR, as named by Magic Leap ) which criss-crosses the technologies as merely the start of things to come.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

In the 00s, however, that future seemed to simply dissipate with a few notable exceptions, including the 2003 launch of early metaverse, Second Life, which remains in operation nearly 20 years later. In 2016, Microsoft began shipping a developer edition of its mixed reality HoloLens system, priced at $3,000.

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