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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Facebook and Google in Tech Cold War : And after FBs OR acquisition anything could happen

If Oculus is supposed to be return-fire to Google Glass then Google has easily won the first engagement. Augmented Reality is the future, virtual reality will be the past- time of people with too much time on their hands. The Beta testing of GG has been a muted success. It's penetrating markets where it is a real tool i.e. medicine, airlines, translation, travel guide, hundreds of Apps.
Oculus on the other hand, what?, roller coasters, gender swap, Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, it's a joke, add to that no consumer version as yet, self confessed big engineering challenges which I maintain are not fixable due to the HMD's total isolation of the brain and the inevitability of simulator sickness to one degree or the other. The ergonomics, it looks like a cracker box tethered to your head, lack of awareness of one's surroundings, the lack of Patent protection, not being submitted for Medical or Legal Review as of yet. Are you kidding me, 2 Billion Dollars?
Google will overcome the recognized  deficiencies in Glass, brightness and power consumption when they swap out the LCOS display for eMagin's AMOLED High Brightness, High Performance displays. Sculley mentioned "Google Glass" numerous times at eMagin's Needham Presentation. It's inevitable.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/26/technology/innovation/facebook-google/

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