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You can just wait until the demand has been proven, and then jump in. That's what's happened to GoPro and to most PC/smartphone OEMs, and it's what happens to p
by w1ntermute 10y ago
You can just wait until the demand has been proven, and then jump in. That's what's happened to GoPro and to most PC/smartphone OEMs, and it's what happens to pharma companies when their drugs go off patent.
I don't think the money to be made in VR/AR will come from making the headsets themselves, but from providing some sort of software with lock-in. If Magic Leap has that, then they could become the Apple of AR, but so far it looks like they're just developing fancy hardware that the Chinese will quickly clone.
- AndrewKemendo 10y agoThe Chinese "knock off" people have trouble making an equivalently good iPhone. A scanning fiber array based virtual retinal display can't be quickly cloned.
- fludlight 10y agoEven the Google "knock off" people have trouble making an equivalently good iPhone.
- brianbreslin 10y agoThey've been building their own fabrication facilities in Ft. Lauderdale, they are trying their best to keep the chinese factories from stealing their IP.
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- w1ntermute 10y agoThe Chinese knockoffs (and Google, for that matter) have trouble making equivalently good software (iOS). It's a challenge in software development and hardware-software integration, not hardware development.