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You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and headtracking. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Oculus has sold a couple million. Amazon Sumerian. million sold.
You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go. And the next generation of headsets that will come out in the next 24 months will all have eye tracking and headtracking. We're not tied to Microsoft. Oculus has sold a couple million. there's just all these tools.
It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. We have sub-millimeter accuracy headtracking and eye tracking.
It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually– it’s interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. We have sub-millimeter accuracy headtracking and eye tracking.
It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. Microsoft has actually-- it's interesting, because the Hololens was in their devices division and they actually moved it last year over to cloud. We have sub-millimeter accuracy headtracking and eye tracking.
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