If you're upgrading your workstation to that new Mac Pro, do you get one big 5k display? Or get this headset, and have an array of displays in high resolution with built-in spatial 3D that follow you anywhere and don't take up any physical space.
No, this screenless laptop [1] is a device that could kill the monitor. Conventional keyboard, AR goggles for the monitor.
This Apple headgear is intended to kill the smartphone, but the hardware isn't there yet. As Carmack said after leaving Oculus, the headgear needs to get down to swim goggle size to get any traction, and down to eyeglass size to become pervasive.
This thing is bulkier than expected. Since it's tethered to a box on your belt, it's surprising that more of the electronics isn't down with the battery. Others are shipping smaller, lighter headgear. You'd expect something like this [2] from Apple.
Despite this, we'll probably see iBorgs on University Avenue in Palo Alto within days after this ships.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/this-ar-laptop-promises-a-...
In particular, the speed and quality of the feedback loop between the camera capturing your surroundings and the rendering to your eyes could be enough to kill the experience.
If it's not up to the task, we're back to the full shutdown VR experience, and this device will have to compete with the other next-gen devices (especially up to 3500 bucks)
At this point it's still vaporware, but I'll be excited to read the first actual impressions of the device in real world settings.