[Steko]

Some products are limited in when they can successfully be launched by the technology available. Google Glass launched in 2013 and was crippled by, among other things, horrid battery life. It ran a full phone/tablet SOC on a 45 nm process along with a high powered display. Apple glasses launched around 2018 would presumably use a lighter S-series chip built on a 16 nm or smaller process. They could also feature a more power efficient display technology. Apple has other big advantages (like hundreds of retail stores) but I think battery life is a feature a device like this lives or dies on.

[Overtonwindow]

Apple could do it, absolutely. Ever since I read Daemon by Daniel Suarez I have dreamed of AG glasses. I would have bought Google Glass if I'd had the money. Maybe Apple will fix the battery issues, make it better, and we will all be more reluctant to leave the house for fear of getting scanned by the glasses.