The Future of Laptops Is Not This Overpriced AR App and Smart Glasses Combo

I was first introduced to Spacetop when the company making it still believed laptops could be different. Sightful, the creators of the $1,900 Spacetop G1 promised the next evolution in laptop design wouldn’t sport a screen at all. Instead, the laptop would use a pair of augmented reality glasses and a custom operating system to navigate an ultrawide AR space for your apps. It was perfunctory—and its OS seemed barebones—but I couldn’t help but admire the gumption of trying something truly new in the laptop space. It’s been one year since then, and Sightful—which was established by a few ex-Magic Leap developers—claims lightweight “AI PCs” are now good enough they can support AR software natively. Whether that’s true or not, and as much as I miss the self-contained G1 AR laptop, Spacetop is now a software solution. Sightful proposes AR aficionados should buy a $900 app and Xreal Air 2 Ultra glasses combo that runs on regular old Windows 11 (there’s no Mac version yet). The software pack ... Read full article.