It makes me imagine coming home and putting on a headset (hopefully reduced in size with time and progress) and essentially living inside my computer.
They really need to just come along in Apple fashion and fix the problems of AR and VR devices in the past. Google Glass was a compelling concept but it was severely lacking and Hololens looks promising but is lacking in practicality if it's essentially a a rectangle screen in your vision rather than putting virtual 3D objects all around you.
So you see VR as something a person enjoys in their homes, or riding in their personal transportation as their cars drive them around from place to place? Or maybe at the office? I would think that kind of useful tech would be useful all the time.
The problem with Google Glass was not implementation or what it could do, the problem was how it looked to other people, and what it represented -- a complete, geeky, violation of other's privacy. The had horrible industrial design. Nothing about them worked from a social or fashion perspective.
So how does Apple fix this? Better, more fashionable designs? Camera "on" indicators others can see from the outside? Incorporate them into sunglasses which almost everyone wears for essential outdoor activities until the features are so indispensable everyone is willing to wear glasses all the time?
As long as people can wear these things in the privacy of their own homes, I don't see any problems ... Google glass tried to push it into the public space way too soon. At most they should have advocated home, and office.
And I'm not really sure how acceptable they will ever be. Don't get me wrong, I can imagine how useful they would be at a big formal party with facial recognition telling me he names and titles of everyone in the room. No more forgetting colleagues names I work with in my industry. But in the other hand, a room full of people wearing glasses who otherwise don't need them is kinda weird. And, while I do wear glasses, the tech would have to be built in seamlessly into my existing frames. Contact lenses would be an important step toward this end. But frankly, I'm not sure I wouldn't just rather have stuff like that whispered into my ear, a la the movie "HER". That seems a far more acceptable and inconspicuous way to go.
While I see this as essential development for some applications, I still see it suffering from Google Glass social problems for anything other than private use, or task specific endeavors.
