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google glass vs oculus vs vision pro on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, oculus leads google glass vs oculus vs vision pro with 12,969 mentions to google glass’s 9,579, peaking in Mar 2014.

Mention-over-time for google glass vs oculus vs vision pro, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

google glass9,579 mentions, peak Apr 2013oculus12,969 mentions, peak Mar 2014vision pro6,494 mentions, peak Jan 2024
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How the lead changed hands

A decade of face-computer hype, one tower each: Google Glass in 2013, Oculus with the Facebook deal in 2014, then Apple's Vision Pro in 2024: three spikes, ten years apart.

The stories behind each line

Top “google glass” stories
  1. Google Glass 763 points · 2013
  2. Google relaunches Glass for businesses 484 points · 2017
  3. Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses 477 points · 2012
  4. Google Glass sales halted 444 points · 2015
Top “oculus” stories
  1. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices 1,858 points · 2020
  2. Facebook acquires Oculus VR 1,449 points · 2014
  3. John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO 993 points · 2013
  4. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card 962 points · 2021
Top “vision pro” stories
  1. Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right 873 points · 2024
  2. Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro 686 points · 2024
  3. Apple Vision Pro review 681 points · 2024
  4. Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI 566 points · 2025

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