Comments on: The four waves of augmented reality (that Apple owns) | TechCrunch https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/07/19/the-four-waves-of-augmented-reality-that-apple-owns-techcrunch/ All about electronics and circuit design Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:41:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/07/19/the-four-waves-of-augmented-reality-that-apple-owns-techcrunch/comment-page-1/#comment-1600525 Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:11:42 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=57599#comment-1600525 The Reality Ecosystem: What AR/VR/XR needs to go big
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/what-ar-vr-xr-needs-to-go-big/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook

AR/VR/XR are going to be big, but not everyone will win. Today’s market is a collection of related point solutions to specific problems, but not a fully functioning ecosystem. Not yet. For the market to begin to challenge incumbent platforms (particularly mobile), great tech alone is not enough. AR/VR/XR needs its own Reality Ecosystem. And there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/07/19/the-four-waves-of-augmented-reality-that-apple-owns-techcrunch/comment-page-1/#comment-1600524 Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:10:16 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=57599#comment-1600524 The Man Who Invented VR Goggles 50 Years Too Soon
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-man-who-invented-vr-goggles-50-years-too-soon

Science fiction as we know it would not exist without Hugo Gernsback. He coined the term “science fiction” as the editor and publisher of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted to the burgeoning genre, which he launched in 1926. The Hugo Awards for science fiction and fantasy are named after him.

But his most arresting invention was probably his television eyeglasses [above]. A Life magazine profile of Gernsback in July 1963, when he was 78, described his “teleyeglasses”

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