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How A Recession Could Boost VR Adoption

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Fast forward from 2008 to now. Why do people fork over cash for new hardware when the well is dry, but shy away from it during a boom? Let’s start with why games did so well back in 2008. For example, let’s say you bought Gears of War 2 in November 2008 when it launched. A premium on frugal fun. New is good.

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Logitech Acquired Saitek For its Future VR Controllers?

VRWorld

Logitech announced the news in a blog post, calling it an “exciting day for Logitech” and heralding Saitek as the “go-to” source for fans of spacefaring and simulation-style games such as Elite Dangerous, Eve Valkyrie, Star Citizen, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Farm Simulator.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators -- big aircraft simulators, etc. -- and I got really excited about seeing the effect it has on pilots and soldiers, and I always thought that it would be useful to do the same, but for normal people, nurses, etc. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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Pascal Secrets: What Makes Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 so Fast?

VRWorld

And if you’re doing search optimization or simulation, you want a different architecture that does not look anything like high-performance, low-power CMOS.” Tim Sweeney event wrote an in-depth column on The Guardian stating what’s wrong with Microsoft.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. I mean, in many cases, you can simulate things with AR that you’re not able to do with a regular website or any other application. Back in 2008, 2009.

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