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

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Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. I'll go so far as to wager it's probably game over for Magic Leap and HoloLens and some other optically transparent approaches. The first was in Irvine, California in 2012 trying a prototype of the Oculus Rift. This is happening.

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Google Confirms Glass Team is Not Working With AR/VR Team

Road to VR

” For me it was a sad confirmation that there’s almost certainly no secret Glass revival in the works; no new device to wow us with a forward thinking approach like the 2012 introduction of the headset ; no effort to bring the “One Day…” concept vision of Glass to life.

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5 Future Predictions for the Virtual and Augmented Reality Industry

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Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.

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

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices.

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

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. They see the value.

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