The only current alternative to cloud-dependent glasses is building something the size of a Vision Pro with a battery pack that lives elsewhere — those are the current choices in this world.

Patel frames today's design space as a binary: small cloud-reliant glasses, or large, battery-tethered headsets like the Vision Pro. ✦ AI generated

Nilay Patel · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-10 · original ↗

Or you can build something the size of a Vision Pro with a battery pack that lives somewhere else. Those are the current choices in this world.

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