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estimator7292today at 5:44 PM1 replyview on HN

No, Microsoft bailed pretty early. Apple gave it one shot and gave up.

The entire VR/AR industry sort of crumpled up and died while metaverse was still burning a billion dollars a day.

I worked in a VR startup at the time. Nobody could find a customer and all the competing startups slowly bled to death (including mine). Everyone was really holding their breath that Apple Vision would bring some life back to the industry, but once it became clear that it was a flop, everyone gave up.


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coffeebeqntoday at 5:53 PM

Meta going so hard was part of the covid “new normal” psychosis. Surely we’ll all just stay home and buy crypto assets for the rest of our lives! The hardware I think is pretty good - I just never really found a use for it.