This article summarizes a report from IDC (probably this one) asserting that "AR, AR, wearables, and smart home tech have passed the early-adoption phase and are all firmly part of the 'mass market.'" But there's 'mainstream' and then there's 'mainstream'. Would I be designing technology today expecting everyone to have an AR or VR device? No. These technologies are 'available' in the sense that you can go out and buy one, but while sales figures are expanding they are far from ubiquitous - we know that because the report is still saying things like "total value of three emerging categories of products... is expected to reach $372.1 billion by the end of this calendar year, and swell to $542.8 billion by the end of 2025. So, almost doubling, which tells me that at least half of the people who could be buying these products haven't yet.
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