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The Crazy VR Goggles in HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Are Not a Prop but a Real Prototype

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But what you’re looking at is actually a real prototype of an HMD called the Glyph, developed by a company called Avegant. I got to try it myself back in 2013 when Avegant was developing the then yet-to-be-named Glyph, a personal video viewer which doubles as a pair of headphones and is available today for $400.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.