Forbes September 8, 2019
Bijan Khosravi

Ninety years ago, a writer by the name of Stanley G. Weinbaum imagined a pair of goggles that let the wearer experience a fictional world through holograms and touch. His vision was surprisingly close to the Mixed Reality Glasses (MRG) technology hitting the market today. Though MRG is still in its infancy, millions of units are shipping every year. This year alone, some six-million MRG units are expected to ship—up two-million from 2018. By 2023 it is expected that this number will reach 17-million.

MRG has the potential to be one of the most disruptive technologies to come out of the 2020’s. Powered by the 5G network, MRG will enable hands-free, instantaneous communication, as well as augmented and virtual reality...

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