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> AR contact lenses are still a good 20+ years away And it’s things like this that will let us get there in that timeframe.

• ezekiel11 4y ago
  you can make the same argument for google glasses
  • imron 4y ago
    You can. Google glasses moved the needle a bit but were found lacking. This will build on the lessons of Google glasses and probably also be lacking, and people will keep trying and building on the lessons learnt and in 20 years we may get ubiquitous AR context lenses.
• Closi 4y ago
  That's not usually how technology development works - usually it's tiny steps in adjacent problems/products which suddenly coalesce into a new product, rather than working for 20 years solidly towards a single product. Take VR as an example - A company that worked on VR since the 80's wouldn't have been unsuccessful, but the reason that the Quest 2 exists today is because of the smartphone, and the smartphone was built on the basis of large flash memory, mobile phones and laptops. Or AirPods, which built on the foundation of over-ear bluetooth headphones and wired earbuds. Bluetooth over-ear headphones obviously built on the foundation of wired over-ear headphones. NB: All of the technologies these built on the shoulders on were stable technologies which were generally received well in the market allowing continued investment in R&D. The closest thing this builds on is Google Glass or Magic Leap, both of which have been a commercial failure and are both a long way off a polished consumer product - and neither of those solve a lot of the technology issues here.