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I can't get past the fact that the software, in order to interact with the 3D world, will be expensive and cumbersome to make. Also, people (your income) born before AR tech generally don't want hardware on their face.

This, and Hololens, and similar, will fail for a while, and I'm thinking it will be decades. I'm placing my bet now.

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If they see it through, the software will eventually be used by almost everyone. And the thing about software is that it's essentially free to duplicate, meaning that it need not be expensive and cumbersome at scale.

If they get it working well with glasses or contact lenses, it will win through. The ability to spin up displays as needed (massive TV in your living room, a screen in the kitchen, shower, ceiling of the bedroom, outside, etc) will mean that fewer and fewer rely on physical displays.

Not to mention the availability of more contextual information (tourism, sports, researching, gardening, socialising, etc).

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