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“Computer displays built into eyeglasses are also used. These specialized glasses allow users to see the normal visual environment, while creating a virtual image that appears to hover in front of the viewer. The virtual images are created by a tiny laser built into the glasses that projects the images directly onto the user's retinas.”
Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines
Said 1999Deadline Dec 31, 2009The Age of Spiritual Machines (Viking, 1999), Chapter 9 ('2009'); text reproduced in 'Claim Chowder: Ray Kurzweil, "2009"', Fair Use Blog, 31 December 2009
No consumer retinal-projection eyeglasses were in use in 2009; virtual retinal display remained a laboratory and niche military technology, and IEEE Spectrum's 2010 review specifically disputed Kurzweil's attempt to score this prediction as correct.