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I'd borderline use this before I tried to work in an open floorplan office.

That said, it's too early on the hardware for resolution and size/weight.

If you want an intuition about why this will be compelling in the further future -

What is a memory palace and why is it so effective?

It appears that we encode a great deal of our thinking, memory, and conceptual relations in a spatial way in the brain.

Maybe a 2d laptop screen that portals into a world of constantly rearranging 2d windows doesn't give us a strong or intuitive sense of place?

What if your computing environment supported or even enhanced this type of natural way that your brain worked?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_memory#Virtual_reality

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/cuso-snt1107...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell




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