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Where Are My AR Glasses?

ComputerWorld, Monday, August 12th, 2024

We've been on the brink of a thriving market for AR glasses for years. What's taking so long for them to arrive

META founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said that hundreds of millions of people might wear AR glasses. (He was speaking with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at this year's SIGGRAPH conference.)

I have to say, I agree; I've made similar predictions in this space during the past couple of years. I think AR glasses -first without, then with, holographic images projected onto the lenses - will be the next big thing in consumer technology.

I also agree with Zuckerberg's claimed approach to the category. During that same conversation, he said: 'Let's constrain the form factor to just something that looks great. And within that, let's put in as much technology as we can.'

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