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This week on the Project Flux podcast we're joined by Ryan Clarke, data consultant, for a clear-eyed tour of what's actually happening in extended reality, from the quiet collapse of Meta's Horizon Worlds to the Apple Vision Pro and the AI glasses now creeping onto real faces.
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Remember when the metaverse was the future? Ryan walks us through why Horizon Worlds rose and fell, and why the real story was never legless avatars in a virtual office , it was the hardware race that followed. Mixed reality devices like the Apple Vision Pro have shifted the goalposts: the question is no longer "will we live in VR?" but "what happens when AI, cameras and a display sit on your face all day?"
That question gets uncomfortable fast. We dig into the privacy problems of AR glasses that can capture video of everyone around you, and the ethics of technologies that blur the line between augmentation and surveillance.
Ryan also shows where this lands for those of us delivering projects: vibecoding and rapid prototyping with AI, why clean data still beats clever dashboards, the grind of modernising legacy systems, and a future of presentations that finally moves beyond PowerPoint. We close with his predictions for AI and superintelligence over the next decade and what the convergence of AI, neurology and human augmentation could mean for the future of work.
Why it matters: XR hype has burned project teams before. Knowing which parts are real AI glasses, rapid prototyping, data-driven decision-making and which are theatre is the difference between investing early and burning budget.
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