Jean Luo

And I think so much of computing for so long has said, you have to actually leave that world and go sit in front of a desktop or stare down at a tiny screen to get the value of computing.

And that trade-off has just always felt so unfair to me.

I mean, I remember growing up, and to use a computer, I had to go in the computer lab at lunchtime.

Everyone else was

playing at recess and I had to go in the computer lab to work on the yearbook and put it all together.

Now, today, it's a little more convenient.

You can carry your computer with you in your pocket.

But then I think, you know, you're sitting at the dinner table and someone's staring down at their phone instead of, you know, finding a way to connect or play a game together or have fun.

And that just breaks my heart.

Like, I don't think that that's good enough when it comes to technology and when it comes to the future of computing.

And so...

Very early on, when we were experimenting with augmented reality and we saw the power of lenses that people were using on their phones, it just seemed silly that people were interacting with AR in this tiny little screen.

I mean, it almost looks like staring through a paper towel tube or something at the world when you're holding up your phone to interact with augmented reality.

It just seems so limiting.

And it requires you to use your hands to hold the phone.

And so we're humans.

We love using our hands for other things.

We want to be able to multitask.

And so this idea that computing requires so much from us that it takes us out of the real world and out of the moment just feels so limiting and unfair in terms of the capacity of technology to change the world.

Quite a long time ago now, I mean, 12 years ago or something like that, we started working on specs and with the idea of making a computer that's totally different, a computer that fits into a pair of glasses, that allows you to put computing in the world around you, that allows you to share those experiences.