The Meta 2 Augmented Reality Development Kit was initially booked in March 2016, and the market is clearly interested in this product. At the end of 2016, Meta said that they have started shipping the first batch of Meta 2 development kits, and they expect that the shipment volume in 2017 will reach around 10,000 units. Ryan Pamplin, deputy director of the Meta Sales and Partner Department, said: "Meta 2 has more pre-orders globally than HoloLens." Meta 2 shows up to 90 degrees of immersion. Far above Meta 1 and Other similar AR heads. In fact, Meta 2 is not the next iteration of Meta 1. Meta launched Meta Pro, which sells for $3,000 in 2013, and started accepting pre-orders. Paplin said feedback from Meta 1 users indicated that the 36-degree field of view is still far from enough. The Meta Pro field of view was 40 degrees at the time: Meta realized that Meta Pro was not the right choice. Pampling pointed out that they did not charge any pre-orderers. The company then released Meta 2, which in March 2016 greatly improved the field of view (and the price is closer to $950), making it the most visually immersive AR head in the same category. The optimization of the field of view comes from the overall innovation of the headlight optics. Meta 1 and Meta Pro use a waveguide, while Meta 2 uses a combiner. Waveguide optics are very thin and can achieve very small form factor designs, but they also have drawbacks. Paplin explained: “The waveguide optics have a field of view of up to 50 degrees.†Although everyone hopes that the final AR glasses can achieve a completely immersive field of view while being similar in size to sunglasses, Meta realized Today's developers need a wide-field AR head-display, and begin to develop applications while continuing to develop optical components. As a result, they chose to design a huge but functional Meta 2 . Developers seem to agree with Meta's approach, and Meta 2 shipments are expected to reach about 100 million in 2017. Pamplin said that the first batch of products will begin shipping within the next few months. Taking into account the $950 price tag (in this calculation, sales will reach $9.5 million), and this is just a developer for development purposes, so this is a strong start for Meta. This growth reminds me of the Rift DK1 development kit. This device sold about 56,000 units, and the subsequent Rift DK2 doubled this figure. This strong developer interest not only benefits Meta, but it is even more so for the entire AR market. Rift DK1 and DK2 have shipped more than 175,000, and VR developed to a large extent has benefited from the early developer's so much interest. Early developers and VR enthusiasts with such large bases have explored many effective and futile solutions. A sufficiently good hardware platform can stimulate the imagination of developers, which is the basis of knowledge and technology, and is also the basis for promoting the development of other AR headlines and platforms. Indeed, it may take a few years for us to see the consumer AR equipment market, but the AR headline market is rapidly heating up. Meta has already completed a substantial $73 million in financing, and giants such as Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Apple (rumors) are vigorously deploying. The competition is obviously fierce, but Paplin is not worried. "Let the horse come," he said. Obviously, Meta welcomes the help and contribution from different vendors to the AR market. PC Terminal Block TBM35A03P101,Screw Terminal Block TBM35A03P101,terminal block box TBM35A03P101 Wenzhou Hesheng Electronic Co., Ltd. , https://www.heshengelec.com
