> And though they would have you believe so, Meta and Apple are not evolving these HMDs into the spectacles form factor.
FWIW, when I was at Meta, and working on wearable devices, it was stated up front that all day wearable AR glasses was the final goal. Shipping other products was as well, but also as a means to explore how to build abd productionize the tech required for AR. That's why you have things like Oculus, Ray Bans, wrist wearables, huge investments in 3D world mapping, research in hands-free controls, off device-compute, etc.
FWIW, when I was at Meta, and working on wearable devices, it was stated up front that all day wearable AR glasses was the final goal. Shipping other products was as well, but also as a means to explore how to build abd productionize the tech required for AR. That's why you have things like Oculus, Ray Bans, wrist wearables, huge investments in 3D world mapping, research in hands-free controls, off device-compute, etc.