Thanks for the response! I still don't agree with your conclusion that the nascent proXR industry is doomed, but definitely cede the point that XR displays will

Thanks for the response! I still don't agree with your conclusion that the nascent proXR industry is doomed, but definitely cede the point that XR displays will be a strain on the computer they're hooked up to. I personally am more interested in software than hardware so can't say I've done a careful analysis of the required compute myself - trusting in the words of (biased) experts on that one. re:the metaphor and your last paragraph, I think I was being unclear. I'm not saying that phones and laptops were wasting compute, I'm saying that they were both heavily criticized for not having enough compute. This is when they were introduced; obviously now its a simple money vs. portable compute tradeoff, which is my ultimate point - I see that same pattern holding in this case, too :)