It’s a 40s thing that companies in the 00s decided to preemptively suck up all of the IP required to
make it work.
Once the technology becomes cheap enough to sell to smartphone users there will only be a few companies who’re legally allowed to create the devices so they can have a free monopoly.
Kind of like how Apple tried to patent everything related to multitouch screen smartphones and then sue all of their competitors out of business.
We don’t have the available technology to make good AR that’s cheap enough for consumers. But, when we do, you’ll find that a few tech companies will claim ownership of key components because of products that they briefly made back in the 00s.
Google’s Glass headset wasn’t a product, it was an IP squatting strategy that sold a few units.
It’s a 40s thing that companies in the 00s decided to preemptively suck up all of the IP required to make it work.
Once the technology becomes cheap enough to sell to smartphone users there will only be a few companies who’re legally allowed to create the devices so they can have a free monopoly.
Kind of like how Apple tried to patent everything related to multitouch screen smartphones and then sue all of their competitors out of business.
We don’t have the available technology to make good AR that’s cheap enough for consumers. But, when we do, you’ll find that a few tech companies will claim ownership of key components because of products that they briefly made back in the 00s.
Google’s Glass headset wasn’t a product, it was an IP squatting strategy that sold a few units.
Every day we grow closer to cyberpunk dystopia and the corporation wars.