I think AR is actually the key to this not being a distraction. The thing about glass is that the display was fixed in your field of view, so it had to at once

I think AR is actually the key to this not being a distraction. The thing about glass is that the display was fixed in your field of view, so it had to at once be sorta tucked away in the corner AND also present all at once. Compelling AR could solve this in a very compelling way, where you can now pin fully digital things to your physical world, and deal with that "distraction" that way. For example, I'm watching a re-run of the Formula 1 race as background noise now on one of my monitors, but its taking real estate that could be used for working. With a really good AR phone solution, I could just pin it as a big screen TV on my wall. it'll at once be more present but less of a "distraction"