[simontheowl]

This whole blog is just a regurgitation of surface-level wikipedia knowledge. All of these issues are very well known in the industry. Asking to solve all of them, perfectly, at once, is clear indication of someone who's never done product development.

[whynotminot]

Yeah, these kind of people are the worst in any kind of product ideation session. Nothing is ever worth doing to them because all they do is point out minute flaws the whole time. Contrarianism taken to a level beyond useful devils advocate.

The other obnoxious thing here is that he thinks he’s being novel? Like Apple hasn’t considered any of these points over this headset’s near decade-long gestation period?

Ultimately though I’ll at least give him credit for putting himself out here so publicly. Plenty of people are harboring private doubts, but he’s setting himself up here for potential posterity, up there with all the people who said the original iPhone would be a failure.

[raesene9]

Out of curiosity, did you look at the About section of the website that the article is from? https://kguttag.com/about-karl-guttag/

[eutropia]

Work Summary

Date: 2018-06 to present

Organization: RAVN

Title: Cheif Science Officer

Summary: RAVN is working on augmented reality headsets for military and first responder applications

... Not the GP, but it looks like they work for someone who makes a competing product. A competing product not backed by Apple's absurd R&D budget.

[fomine3]

As who don't work in industry (99.999%), it's quite informative blog.

[ddalex]

The guy (Karl Guttag) also writes the wikipedia on these subjects