Editor's Pick: Why VR Is Failing

Why VR Is Failing

Rob Enderle Apr 10, 2017 10:32 AM PT
	As a market, we seem to have trouble learning that three key elements are necessary for a new technology to take hold: It has to appear complete, it has to be compelling, and it has to seem like a value -- that is, be affordable. Compared to what we have today, the car that opened up the automotive market in the U.S. was none of those things -- yet it was incredibly successful. [More...]

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