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by haydenlee 3820 days ago
Not sure if trolling but... The first Oculus dev kit shipped 50k in 2013. Cardboard wasn't announced until I/O 2014.
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Alupis 3820 days ago
> The first Oculus dev kit shipped

We're talking about consumer items, not dev kits. In reality, Google Cardboard was the first (modern) VR kit released.

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endergen 3820 days ago
Is Cardboard a consumer item? It's been pretty straight to dev expect marketing promotions and Google IO handouts.
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Alupis 3820 days ago
I think it's not a real "serious" product; more of a "gag", if anything.

I think it was Google's way at having fun with all the VR hype around last year's I/O conference (and to show it's not anything really groundbreaking).

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makomk 3820 days ago
A bunch of Chinese companies started pumping out Cardboard clones pretty much as soon as it was announced and at least one commercial VR porn company is using them.
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