Why can't the glasses be dumb displays streamed to by my phone?
Because then you don't get to break the Android/Apple duopoly
I don't think you'll ever be able to. Maybe not for decades for AR/VR. The AI stuff is cool; you can offload that, but mostly they'll just be a glorified camera mount and headphones for the actual 'glasses.'
Your comment won't age well.
Guess we'll see in a few decades.
People thought VR was on the brink of mass market breakthrough in the 90s too.
You already can in something the size of an old cassette walkman, run an extra flexible USB c cable to the glasses or something and problem solved
(phones are an obvious choice but I suspect you could jam significantly more power into the same form factor if you didn't need screen, speakers, mobile modem etc)
The offloading is easy, I don't think the optical aspects of breakthrough VR/AR will be overcome for quite a while.
Intels next gen iGPU has has similar benchmarks to a 3080. Compute is still scaling incredibly quickly. I think the optical problem will end up taking much longer than compute.