3) not having to wear a gargantuan helmet on your head covering your eyes.

as long as this is a giant piece of kit that you need to wear on top of your head, it's not going to be adopted by the masses.

I would wear it for work if it meant I could walk around while working and the screens had resolution good enough for small text. I would learn a new input method to make this work because it would be healthier than sitting and walking is good for thinking.

> it would be healthier than sitting and walking is good for thinking.

But what about attention? Your attention is going to be split between two tasks, your work and walking. Your eyes are going to be split too. You’re going to end up walking into walls.

Why not just stand up from your desk and take a walk to clear you head? I find that enormously beneficial. I don’t need to have an omnipresent screen strapped to my face for that.

The tech produces a view similar to the hololens. You’re not any more distracted walking than you are… walking. You can read signs, look at streets, see walls. You can have additional HUDs but it’s significantly less distracting than you’re positing.

> I would wear it for work if it meant I could walk around while working

The key point here is "while working". That is the distraction, not the mere presence of things in your eyeline. If I strapped a laptop to my chest and walked down the street while reading through a codebase I'd be distracted. Having that in helmet form instead doesn't seem like it would make a dramatic difference?

People already walk down the street focused on screens in their hands. If anything, positioning a screen where you have the most spacial awareness seems like it would cause fewer problems.

But really, it's going to depend on how the user configures their workspace and what work they're doing more than what device they're using.

You’re just going to end up standing still or sitting anyway when something demands your full attention.

Or tripping and falling while wearing your expensive headset.

Plenty of people use a walking pad underneath their standing desk while working. I think you may be overestimating your ability to balance both these activities, especially as you see yourself navigating the outside world while looking at screens.

I believe the folks at Bigscreen got that one right. Their headset seems to be small and light enough, and good enough image quality. Their Beyond 2 is 107g!

Can't walk around with it though. Not just because of the tether but because they don't care about supporting AR.

I actually cancelled my order of the BSB2 because I decided that I like having a camera to temporarily see around me when I'm moving out of the safe area. They responded to that by basically saying 'yeah a camera would add some amount of extra weight and we're trying to cut as much as we can'.

But it seems like a super awesome device if you're not moving around or you know you have tons of space.

Links to some of the Chinese ones?

The XReal sets work like this but its not the same kind of display. I don't think you can really get the same hardware experience yet.

4) not wearing a full computer on your head (instead of wearing it in your pocket and connecting it via cable/wifi)

If they could get something lighter that does pass through to a linux desktop at a reasonable cost but still has the screen quality.

Not quite there yet but I'm intrigued - I'm enjoying reading about it and appreciate the people taking the hit to help Apple figure out exactly what the real product is.

I find the multi monitor solution really good. I use it a lot. You can have an ultra wide screen display which is like having multiple separate monitors.