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The Second Coming of Augmented-Reality Glasses

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Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. So much so that it even got co-opted into the 2012 New York Fashion Week ; worn by Diane von Furstenberg and her models on the runway. Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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Apple Vision vs. Meta Quest: The New iPhone Vs. Android?

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Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. The first was in Irvine, California in 2012 trying a prototype of the Oculus Rift.

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

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And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And I’m together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product.

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

XR for Business Podcast

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And I’m together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product.

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

XR for Business Podcast

And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. And I'm together with Magic Leap, I think Magic Leap is a wonderful product. So this was before Oculus.

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A brief history of VR and AR

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Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. A collaboration with Valve, the product was introduced as a demo under the “SteamVR hardware system” banner at 2015’s GDC show. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.

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LYNX Has Raised $2 Million for Its R-1 Headset, and Other Background on the XR Newcomer

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million on Kickstarter back in 2012. Furthermore, $2 million goes further today toward a creating an XR headset than it did years ago thanks to more readily available and mature hardware, supply chains, and software. One of those shortcuts to market comes through Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program and its XR SDK.