There is an assumption here that smart glass designers/manufacturers aren’t taking these dissimilarities into account.

Projecting an existing 2D Mobile OS onto your wrist is an easy example of solving this problem and creating a huge value proposition for smartphone users: No longer having to carry around a rectangle to use their apps.

Why not bundle glasses with the timely release of their newest phone, if glasses are destined to be tethered to a piece of hardware?(GPU, CPU, Etc) Apple’s AR kit is the inkling of this future.

A company as large as Apple has behavioral scientists on payroll who are able to design attention grabbing software far beyond the capabilities of a vibrating/noisy pocket rectangle. Once the hardware is fashionable, it won’t take much for an Apple to flip the switch and onboard its user base.

There are many reasons AR could take longer than Scoble predicted, but in this case it would be a lack of imagination on the designer’s part.

You may be right though, and there may be far too much credit being given to companies like Apple and Magic Leap. Whenever AR takes off, I’m sure we will all be pleasantly surprised.