Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus
MatthewBall, January 26th, 2023
Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices - i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR), hybrid mixed reality (MR) - began more than a decade ago.
Magic Leap was founded in 2010, the same year Microsoft started development on its HoloLens platform, which released its first model in 2016, with the second coming in 2019. The first Google Glass prototype was in 2011, with the first Explorer Edition coming in 2013 and the Enterprise Edition 2 launching as recently as 2019; a reconceived model was field-tested in 2022.
Google's Cardboard VR platform and software development kit (SDK) came in 2014, with the Daydream VR platform coming two years later. Sony PlayStation began development of its VR platform in 2011, which then debuted in 2016.