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John Loeffler

Apple's mixed reality headset makes no sense — unless it's a head fake

A woman wearing the Gear VR for Galaxy Note 4

The Apple hype train proceeds apace, this time with all kinds of rumors about a mixed reality headset that Apple is widely expected to unveil at WWDC 2023. If true, it would be Apple's first foray into the VR/AR scene, and it would come after a decade of development by Meta, Valve, Microsoft, HP, Acer, and Lenovo, just to name a half-dozen companies that have invested heavily into the tech since the early 2010s.

And ever since Mark Zuckerberg wore an Oculus headset for a tech demo and made a $2 billion offer to buy the company that made it effectively on the spot, VR/AR has been searching far and wide for a use case, and really the only thing we've really been able to come up with is VR chat for furries.

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