Summary

Major companies are investing billions of dollars per YEAR into making consumer-grade, high-utility AR Smartglasses a reality, but progress is slow. There’s no Moore’s law in displays, optics, or batteries. These underlying technologies still remain a big hurdle in developing AR Smartglasses good enough for mass adoption. Additional hurdles remain around the system’s understanding of your intent and the world around you, as well as the social acceptance of these devices.

In this 2020 Kickoff episode, I look back at progress in 2019 and share a few thoughts about what I expect in 2020. As I was thinking through what I wanted to share, I posed these questions to myself:

Why do AR Smartglasses seem inevitable to me?

Who’s chasing this dream? Why?

What progress have we seen in 2019? What hurdles remain?

What does mobile AR teach us?

Why the long road through the enterprise?

What can we expect in 2020?

You can find all of the show notes at thearshow.com.