This is the kind of thing where I think Apple’s saying, “we didn’t quite get there, but we got close enough we know we’ll be there in two years, so we have this compromise hardware so the software will start coming.”

I think it’s being positioned AR first for exactly that reason - VR’s basically a dead end and they know it, so this is the bridge.

The downside to me is that I don’t actually know if they’ll solve the problem to get to full AR hardware that’s easy to use fast enough. I’d hoped this announcement would show some sort of optical advance, but …?