> they don't focus on the end-user too much. Of course they don't. Stuff like this is a proof of concept. If they had a product that worked, they wouldn't be

> they don't focus on the end-user too much. Of course they don't. Stuff like this is a proof of concept. If they had a product that worked, they wouldn't be in academia. Instead, they would leave the world of research and create a multi billion dollar company. Almost by definition, anything in academia isn't going to be productized, because if it was, then the researchers would just stop researching and make a bunch of money selling the product to consumers. Such research is still useful for society, though, as it means that someone else can spend the millions and millions of dollars making a better version and then selling that.