I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices.

The research behind such tech will proliferate no matter ho invented it first. People will be hired by other companies, they'll apply whatever they learned, using different techniques. Specific techniques can be patented, the experience people gained cannot.

I would love to have notable information pop up but we both know it would devolve into something between Ow My Balls and the RESUME VIEWING episode of Black Mirror.

Google Glass was not AR. They were "smart glasses" with severely limited functionality for an extremely high price. That's mainly why they failed, not the privacy backlash. The majority of people don't care about privacy, just look at what information people put on the Internet.

They did, and it was. Coined the term 'glassholes'

And Snapchat tried it with their uh, whatever the hell they called it and pretty much ended the same way.

Basically, it's an easy way to put 'giant dipshit' on your forehead and make people avoid you.

I remember that, for a while, you’d see “No Google Glass” at some clubs and bars. People really hated it.

Google glass failed for many reasons, but I don't think privacy was one of them. Price and usefulness were the two big reasons. Tech has advanced a lot in 10 years, so the usefulness and video quality has definitely advanced; but the ratio of price to usefulness is probably not right yet.

Unless this solves the main problems of headaches, batter life, and looking like a fucking idiot it'll fail just like Google did.

That said Google glass (2014)and this are about 10y apart in technology advances.

Maybe they will have an upgraded version with a large rubber nose and a moustache.

They could have gone with a "visor" frame design that would have been more fashionable, but I think this is pretty impressive for demonstrating the bare minimum amount of plastic needed to house holographic transparent displays, internal/external tracking sensors, and a sound system.

What they claim these glasses can do is absolutely incredible (we won't really know because they are only being used internally for further development).

*for values of Dan Levy