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It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn't get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can't imagine it would be much faster for VR.

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Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: May 14
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