# Heads-up display · Hindsight | Envisioning

Source: https://www.envisioning.com/hindsight/claims/kurzweil-2005-004

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# Heads-up display

Published 2005-09

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> Displays will be built into our eyeglasses and contact lenses and images projected directly onto our retinas.

[Source](https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/images/How-My-Predictions-Are-Faring.pdf)

## Verdict

missTwo blind graders agree ([D7](https://github.com/envisioning/hindsight/blob/main/docs/DECISIONS.md#d7-agentic-verdicts-with-independent-agreement), rule [D16](https://github.com/envisioning/hindsight/blob/main/docs/DECISIONS.md#d16-grading-rule-for-year-placed-forecasts-revised-supersedes-d10)). Not in the audit sample ([D11](https://github.com/envisioning/hindsight/blob/main/docs/DECISIONS.md#d11-validation-thresholds)).

1.  Grader A: miss
    
2.  →
    
    Grader B: miss
    
    agrees with A, without seeing its verdict
    
3.  →
    
    Published: miss
    

Grader A: miss

Google Glass (prism display) sold to developers 2012 and consumers 2014, stopped 2015, regarded a failure; no contact-lens displays sold. Below 5% by 2015.

Test: Mainstream test: at least 20% of target users with eyewear or contact-lens displays.

-   [Google Glass (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass) (2026): Prism projector display; developer sale 2012, consumer 2014, production stopped Jan 2015; regarded as a failure. No mass-market eyeglass or contact-lens displays.

Grader B: miss

No consumer eyewear displays existed around 2010; Google Glass (2013) was a limited developer product and contact-lens/retinal displays never shipped to consumers. Far below 5%.

Test: [D16](https://github.com/envisioning/hindsight/blob/main/docs/DECISIONS.md#d16-grading-rule-for-year-placed-forecasts-revised-supersedes-d10) mainstream/event: consumer eyewear or contact-lens/retinal displays in use by 2012.

-   [Google Glass - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass) (2026-10-01): Google Glass prototype appeared in 2012-2013 as a limited product; no consumer eyeglass or contact-lens displays existed around 2010.

## All captured fields

rank

4

kind

dated\_prediction

subject

Heads-up display

target year

2010

timing

around

position

Chapter 6; item 4 in Kurzweil 2010, p. 131

confidence

high

note

Wording as reproduced by the author in "How My Predictions Are Faring" (2010), which says the book has 'one page of predictions for 2010 in Chapter 6'. Subject label is the essay's own item heading.

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