Forbes September 24, 2025
In 2016, the artist Keiichi Matsuda launched a six minute video called Hyper-Reality. It depicted a world where a user wearing smart glasses was constantly bombarded with images, videos, texts, games, advertisements, and incoming calls. The result was dizzying and dystopian, an early warning about what our future in a persistently connected world would look like when viewed through a head-mounted device.
Nothing in the demo of the Meta Display glasses, which launched at Meta Connect last week and hit the market later this month, gave a sense that the initial visuals on the glasses would be as chaotic as hyper-reality. But as anyone who has had to close four pop-up ads and scroll past a video just to read...
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