The VR investment news keeps coming:
Google is apparently working on a virtual reality headset that, unlike its Cardboard platform, will have no need for a smartphone — or a high-powered PC or gaming console, for that matter. The device will sport a display, cameras, and processors from independent company Movidius for head tracking, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing unnamed sources.
But like I just reported, Google's current VR headset, Cardboard, is hardly being used, and forecasts of massive VR growth are based on flawed or highly questionable assumptions. With Facebook, Google, and recently even Apple jumping full into a technology that has little evidence of being anything but a niche, I see ominous signs of epic industry-wide disappointment.
Image credit (and awesome image it is): ComputerWorld, attached to an article worth reading.
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