Apple reportedly built wearable visor prototypes, 'didn't have time' to bring them to market

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When companies are this size and are diversifying so much, is this any surprise tbh?

 

 

 

Considering that Apple's patented nearly every tech concept under the sun, the revelation that it dabbled with a wearable display of some sort is hardly earth-shattering. According to Tony Fadell, Nest CEO and former Senior VP at Apple, Cupertino built a bunch of wearable tech prototypes but "didn't have time" to further develop them. Fadell describes Apple's approach as "visors, so it's like you're sitting in a theater," which sounds decidedly more like a VR headset or head-mounted display than something like Google Glass. Still, Apple dismissing one of Google's the year's most hyped concepts in favor of focusing on its streamlined device lineup? That's quite a burn to Mountain View.

 

Source:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/10/apple-built-google-glass-style-prototypes/

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[GoodBytes]

Sound to me like Apple going "Yea, us too we had the idea! We are still cool, love us!"

 

In other news, Nintendo did the same thing, and actually release it.

 

While it wasn't as fancy as Oculus, for back in the day, that was crazy shit back then.

If you wonder why everything was red on the screen for the Virtual Boy, is because the 2 displays where actual LED displays.

LED's were expensive back then, red was the cheapest color, and also the easiest to see.

Multi-color LED's were even more expensive, making the virtual boy extremely expensive.