56% Of VR Devs Say VR ‘Declining Or Stagnating’ | Techdirt

While I don’t disagree with most of the article, a couple of things.

First, you said:

You can’t under-estimate how little most of the public likes having cumbersome, dorky plastic strapped to their face.

And then you said:

For mass adoption the technology needs to be seamless, minimalistic, and utterly unobtrusive, not whatever this is supposed to be:

The latter was followed by a photo of what appears to be an AR device that, frankly, is pretty seamless, minimalistic, and unobtrusive as far as AR can be. They look like regular sunglasses/glasses, albeit on the thicker side in terms of the frame, but still within what non-AR/VR glasses that already exist look like. I have no idea how functional the AR part actually is, but in terms of the device’s external features, it frankly doesn’t seem that bad, especially compared to most contemporaries (like the aforementioned Apple Vision Pro). It certainly doesn’t look cumbersome, at least no more than a pair of glasses or sunglasses already is.

Maybe it’s a bit dorky, but it’s at least a step in the right direction, surely; it definitely isn’t worse as a fashion statement compared to the other, incredibly bulky headsets on the market. Why you act as though it’s completely missing the reason people aren’t adopting AR or VR headsets is beyond me, at least given the reasons you gave.

Second, there are a few reasons I think you missed for why AR headsets, specifically, haven’t really taken off.