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They still don't own the graphics cards and displays (monitors &/or googles)
by aeortiz 5y ago
They still don't own the graphics cards and displays (monitors &/or googles)
- Graphguy 5y agoThey do have HoloLens though.
- zymhan 5y agoThose are very much a commodity.
- reducesuffering 5y agoNvidia and AMD, of $650B and $160B market caps, make commodities?!
- zymhan 5y agoI'm not sure what market cap has to do with it? BHP Billiton is an _actual_ commodity (mining) company with a market cap similar to AMD [1] GPUs aren't commodities in the traditional sense, it's more of a figure of speech to convey how interchangeable and standardized GPUs are nowadays. [1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BHP:NYSE https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BHP:NYSE
- bregma 5y agoConsumer game hardware is small potatoes in the revenue stream of those companies. They might be important to the game-playing consumer, but they're regarded as commodities by industry.
- schleck8 5y agoMicrosoft has an AR goggle contract for the US Army, and functioning models of both this and the commercially distributed HoloLens, so you bet VR is in their reach.