• magnue@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    For it to be desirable, the form factor needs to be indistinguishable from normal sunglasses or specs. With current technology it’s not even close to being achievable. The battery tech just isn’t there for starters. I have no idea why big tech thought this was just around the corner and thought just throwing money at an impossible problem would just make it possible.

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      2 hours ago

      Because the executives have no technical understanding, but can’t stand that thought. They see themselves as genius visionaries whose whole job is to see possibilities. It’d be terribly uncomfortable for their self-esteem to concede that their visions are brutally detached from reality and the possibilities they think they see are hallucinations.