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A Work in Progress: Virtual Reality

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On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Oculus has sold an estimated 250k Rifts. As of January 2016, Google Cardboard has shipped over 5 million units. Since then, we have seen a movement.

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

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Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. AR mode will be everywhere else: calling a heads up display of Google Maps on the street, stopping to catch a Pokemon in a field, or scanning the person in the coffee meeting across from you to cross-reference their LinkedIn profile.

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