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Wild guess, Magic Leap?

• ilaksh 6y ago
  Augmented reality has a potential market as large as that of cell phones. Magic Leap raised not tens of millions but more than a billion dollars if I recall correctly. I believe the issue is that their product is expensive and therefore did not become popular and therefore has relatively few applications and so does not become popular.
  • ghaff 6y ago
    Wearable augmented reality will probably be very big some day. (The probably being mostly a hedge against essentially the Glasshole factor--i.e. never becoming socially acceptable for day to day casual use, as opposed to commercial applications.) But the when is anyone's guess and could easily be a decade or three out.
    • ilaksh 6y ago
      "Easily three decades" is a short-sighted prediction in my opinion. Some of the optical waveguide prototypes are quite similar to normal glasses especially with power and compute on a tether in a pocket or something. I will be very surprised if it really takes ten years.
      • ghaff 6y ago
        It's mostly the observation that VR and AR have been right around the corner for a long time. (And, yes, I'm aware that are VR products in the market but also that it's not really mainstream.) So I wouldn't be shocked if there were mainstream consumer AR glasses before the end of the decade. I also wouldn't be shocked if 10 years from now they were still at the "real soon now" stage.