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2024, the year of Linux on the ski goggle.

Sadly, Alpine is already taken

These days the N in the FAANG stands for Nvidia and it has not faltered at all.

It is a struggle to even get Bluetooth working on Linux, forget about AR headsets!

I think apple missed the boat here anyway - the next big thing is not AR or VR despite Apple and Facebook betting the farm on it ... They both missed this AI thing and got distracted by VR.

you don't "miss" AI. you can be slower to adapt, but on a large enough timescale, that quickly becomes irrelevant. even chrome was only released in 2008

To be fair, Linux is the backbone of the entire Quest lineup. If it was a limiting factor then I don't see why Oculus was so quick to market.

I feel Valve is working on that with the Deckard project.