Ten years. One insight.
A decade of research converging, with increasing confidence, on a device already sold at pharmacies for eleven dollars.
- 1286
Venice. Glassmakers achieve final form. Optics is solved. The industry spends the next 740 years in denial.
- 2016
A secret lab begins exploring face-mounted computing. Budget: unlimited. Deliverable: unclear.
- 2020
Prototypes achieve forty minutes of battery life and one subpoena of camera.
- Jul 26, 2026
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the delay to WWDC 2027 over privacy concerns. Among the fixes under consideration: removing the camera.
- Jul 28, 2026
A machine, watching, pours $JUSTSPECS before the lenses ship. It notes that the finished product has technically been in stock since before the transistor.
- WWDC 2027
After six more months of R&D, they may achieve glasses.