AR Headsets

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BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Luckey: Current VR hardware will not achieve mainstream everyday adoption
“None of those things are going to be ready for quite some time, and the hardware that we have today, it's good for enthusiasts, but the hardware we have today is not going to be something that the majority of people want to use, certainly not as part of their …”
Palmer Luckey Apr 4, 2023 ▶ 3:56 Palmer Luckey - Future of Virtual Reality, AI War, Autonomous Killing Machines, Militarized Policing
ANOTHER PODCAST Prediction Held up
Evans: An Apple AR headset will take years to reach scale
“If Apple launches an AR headset at WWDC next summer, like that will not have hundreds of millions of users next year, the year after. Like it did take, it does take three to five years to go from the first thing.”
Benedict Evans Nov 8, 2021 ▶ 9:54 How to think about tech
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shankar: The major AR app wave requires headsets, not smartphones
“I don't think you'll have that second wave until it's actually in a headset, until it's on a head mount.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:00 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?
a16z Prediction Partly held up
Shankar: AR headset prices will exceed $1,000 for the next three years
“We're talking about price points that are north of a thousand dollars for the foreseeable future, for the next two to three years.”
Darshan Shankar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:59 a16z Podcast | When Is VR's iPhone Moment?

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