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by munchbunny 3339 days ago
I've been tossing around the adoption issue as well, and I think the "viral winning app" issue is maybe the wrong way to think about it.

The viral winning app sells a device, but not an ecosystem. I don't think the iPhone for example had a single viral winning app. It was more a confluence of enough capabilities merged into your phone that it became really helpful to own a smartphone. I suspect that's how VR will go if it succeeds. It eventually hits a price point and there are enough individual reasons to own and use a VR headset that it begins to make sense for everyone to own one.