2030+ Head Mounted Displays - TV’s nemesis and successor

Our phones have replaced our TVs as our favorite anti-boredom device. They can watch shows, broadcasts and streams, and play games, search, surf, share and be social. The time we spend watching on wall TVs will keep dropping as our mobile devices keep improving.?

HMDs, or head mounted displays, have been coming soon since Nintendo’s virtual boy in 1995. Meta has invested tens of billions in its fascinating financial black hole it calls the Metaverse, and now Apple is playing the game too, with its Vision Pro. But like the rise of TV, the personal computer, the Internet or the cell phone, it takes decades for many complex parts to fuse together into a revolutionary consumer product. Today’s HMDs are still too expensive and too heavy to watch a three hour football game. However, the day of enlightenment is at hand with Sony’s amazing micro OLEDs, tiny and light HDR 4k displays used in 72 gram, $449 XREAL Air2 and the 650 gram, $3499 Apple Vision Pro. Like every electronic component, as micro OLEDs keep shrinking, the cost, size and weight of eyeglass-sized, theater quality displays will shrink too. Before broadcast TV’s 100th birthday, light, $199 glasses will outperform today’s best 80 inch monitors or $250,000 movie theater displays.?

Once HMDs are as pocketable, comfortable and as affordable as glasses, they will displace today’s bulky and expensive alternatives; heavy wall displays, unwieldy desk displays, or unhandy mobile displays. Once we can carry nice HMDs on our head or in our pocket, they will become as normal as sunglasses (~ 30 gram).? Small, light and cheap displays will make today’s big displays and fancy TVs obsolete.?

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