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While this particular AR may be overhyped, I do expect AR to become a multi-billion-US$ industry before 2025. Even if it’s just two apps, Sunglasses.app and Google Maps pasted onto your view with no careful design, that’s still worth $30 and could run on that year’s version of the Raspberry Pi Zero. 30 million units per billion dollars, doesn’t feel unreasonable.

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I can certainly construct scenarios where magic AR tech could be a breakout product category. Glasses that look approximately like other glasses. No social stigma. Able to automagically project directions, identify people, display information about places/objects. Unobtrusive control through a watch, vocal commands, or other means. Etc.

But that's asking a lot. I'd probably be willing to stipulate it will happen at some point, for at least some use cases (e.g. industrial). But Not sure that 5-ish years will do it.

Is sunglasses.app just slightly darkening the lenses so they work as sunglasses?

Pretty much. People already pay a premium for photochromic lenses that take minutes to adjust, LCD can do the same in milliseconds.

I just want the Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

Oh come on, let me have just a little bit of peril?

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