AR is the true future, but we're a materials science breakthrough away. You need waveguides or some similar thing that generates holograms that's cheap, has a wide FOV, and works in bright light. HoloLens and Magic Leap came close, but people couldn't figure out how to make enough money off the devices, apparently.

Is it?

I don't want to see sports teams playing on my coffee table. I don't want to see recipes dancing in front of me while I wear glasses in front of a stove, the humidity of boiling water vapor sticking to plastic lenses. I don't want people dicking around with headwear while they're supposed to be driving. I don't want to see contact and bio information hovering above my friends. And I certainly don't want to see ad overlays throughout daily life.

I want to escape life and enter fantasy worlds. I want to be transported. I want to see the Matrix unfold in front of me. That's about as far from AR or XR as I can imagine.