For AR, will passthrough optics dominate the consumer market (versus transparent optics) by EOY 2024
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Measured in terms of total devices sold by any reputable source (such as https://www.statista.com/statistics/1055434/worldwide-vr-ar-device-shipments-by-product-type/).
Jan 13, 8:36am: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/xr-headset-shipments-almost-triple-yoy-q1-2021/
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Not only now but this will always be the case, transparent optics are a technological dead end.
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