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by jarjoura 92 days ago
VR was never the endgame though. It was always AR, except, the "metaverse" bet assumed people were going to adopt AR in the same abundance that they adopted phones.

It was a cool concept, when you were dreaming it up while taking a shower in the morning getting ready for work thinking about the next big idea.

However, it's like those weird Uber/Lyft scooters that popped up in the 2010s. Those things were a cool concept too. However, we got to see right away that it was a terrible business idea for all kinds of reasons.

It took Meta several years (decade +) and 10s of billions of dollars and layoffs to realize, AR was a terrible business idea.

VR is a fun hobby though, and Oculus definitely owns that space.

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> AR was a terrible business idea.

I don't think they've learnt that. Orion, the "new" glasses should have shipped in 2020q4.