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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

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The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years

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As a side note, I’m so glad we collectively stuck with calling it head-mounted displays, and not something like “VR Helmet”, “VR Glasses”, or any of the other many attempts to call it something else. Almost exactly five years ago, the hot thing I could think of to control virtual worlds was the early Emotiv EEG headsets.