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Computer software and hardware are an interesting case where often, the more expensive something is, the worse it is; the best stuff is often quite cheap. This comes from the high upfront costs meeting very low marginal costs. A cutting-edge chip fab will cost $10b+ all told right now, but can produce millions of chips a year at trivial costs.

I knew as soon as he mentioned military VR results that his case was going to be based on ancient and inferior hardware and outdated results, and include no actual results or even first-hand experience with a Vive. (At the most generous reading of the article, he worked with a DK1 a while ago.)