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by jwr 3061 days ago
This was the idea behind https://www.reconinstruments.com/products/jet/
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Recon are also owned by Intel (they bought them several years back IIRC as part of their largely failed "wearables" push).

FWIW I also agree there is a strong market for endurance athletes - the progress of Recon Jet has been followed pretty closely by many in the Cycling/Triathalon community, where getting Garmin Edge computer style realtime metrics for things like speed/power output etc into glasses has been a dream of many for a while. This is a market already used to high priced electronics for training (a good bicycle power meter regularly runs over $1000 alone).

Sure but it's goofy looking, relatively heavy, and obstructs vision. So it will be limited to a few early adopters and won't cross the chasm to a mainstream market.