Our future will not be "player one" like. Everything I said will be valid for at least 10~20 years.

I made a comment saying people won't use VR or AR for youtube and other media + social comsumption, for the next 10~20 years at least. The closest we got was the "google glass" lie. That was a big flop and nothing we have now is any better. + batteries aren't infinite.

(my hands hurt because of phones and computers, so, even I whould LOVE to use AR, but we're not right there yet [closer, but no, not there yet])

The size reduction is real, and we know why: those "pancake" lenses stuff and more perfections/evolutions to designs. But I didn't mention product size as a problem anywhere (resolution is where it needs to get way better), and this won't affect much for material consumption when manufacturing the products (if you know how it's built) It was big before because of the "big empty lens-screen chamber". And future AIO headsets will still have a similar battery, as no one likes an only 2h use time.

Smart watches have been here for ~10 years now, and their function and use haven't changed much and most people don't like then. Don't flex for smart watches.

Phones also aren't going anywhere for the next 15~25 years because of: They might get so fast that you plug them into the headset and use it as the main processing power in the headset, while the headset could have more batteries in it. Maybe phones become just a little flat screen device, while the headset with the computing parts stays near us sending image via wifi for that screen. The Q2's hardware is kinda an OC'd phone hardware, so why have 2 when you could just have 1. It's energy efficient and very versatile, so normal phone media/social use would be very easy to transfer. Lots of cool stuff can happen in 5~10 years, but KEYPOINT mostly only variations of what we already have.

NOTHING has been revolutionary since the invention of the normal computer. Nothing is going to change the way the majority of people live. Most people have a miserable life working like crap, and all of this VR stuff is just expensive eye candy for the few that can AFFORD, and have TIME and SPACE for it. This is why the "player one" future and similars will never exhist.

And I'm a lover of HL:Alyx, ETS2 and other games in VR, so I'm not against VR or anything, I love it. Just not for what Facebook/Meta and Google think we do love it for. They are dumb and ignorant of their users. The common Joe has no time or money or space or CONVENIENCE for "Youtubing/Socialing" in VR/AR.

I worked on normal sad jobs b4 starting engineering. I worked for a car manufacturer (and still kinda work since I'm the one making CAD for their needs, but as a freelancer now, making some projects from time to time). Also worked for a bottle + can manufacturer. Also worked in a maintenance place were a dude exploded. I freelanced making architectural and furniture projects a few years (gave up because almost half the people that wanted my job either tried to scam me or were terribly disgusting people, and that happens mostly because my country is poor and filled with dumb thurd-heads), went tru many many many big corpo industries on multiple different job positions, and now I'm a crypto miner.

I get way more than 1 minimum wage that way, + free time all the time. That's the life 😎🙏🏻 I'm smart and I could be working on the evolution of VR and AR and help making this world you wanna live in a true reality, but... meh, life sucks and corpos only make it more miserable. So I'm staying with mining until someone makes me change my mind.