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This blog post is written by Karl Guttag who is someone who is interested in AR, but not very interested in VR. The reason he is coming at it from an AR angle is that is what kind of device he is looking for. If you look at the rest of his blog you can see many articles related to AR.

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That’s fine, but it’s okay to call out the author’s bias. They contributed wonderful tests of the limitations of the headset. But the headset is only a failure for the authors use case. (AR)

I agree. If you know the author the bias is clear, but it's okay to point it out for people who are not familiar with him.

Having used Hololens vs several passthrough-AR devices (Quest 2 etc) I'd take "poor image quality" over "limited FOV and the need to use it in a darkened room" any day.

Until AR display tech gets significantly better I think AR based on passthrough cameras is the only sensible approach.

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