The Missing Link in Smart Glasses

For years, ubiquitous augmented reality has felt within reach – yet always just out of grasp. Brighter displays come at the cost of efficiency. More powerful systems compromise wearability. Breakthroughs impress in demos but struggle to scale.

What if the challenge isn’t any single technology – but how they all come together? In this session, Paul Meissner from Applied Materials explores the hidden constraint that has shaped the category’s progress – and what happens when performance, design, and manufacturability are approached as one system from the start. The result is a path forward for smart glasses – a path that is already here.