OP, judging from your posts, you've bought into the PR hard.

But how about a bit of reality check? 11 months ago the technology, in a form that was approaching but not yet remotely like the patent applications, was only able to show a crude image.

It’s clear that getting the technology into that small form will be very hard. The smallest demo hardware I’ve seen at Magic Leap can’t yet match the experience of the bigger demo units. It includes a projector, built into a black wire, that’s smaller than a grain of rice and channels light toward a single see-through lens. Peering through the lens, I spy a crude green version of the same four-armed monster that earlier seemed to stomp around on my palm.

Sure, you can say "That was 11 months ago tho!" - but look at how much progress Microsoft made in that time. And they have a huge amount of engineering and research power behind them.

Part of the reason the HoloLens FOV is so small is because the computer in the headset is actually driving the display. They haven't publicly demo'd the larger, non-portable versions that have a full FOV (but you can guess how large they are by looking at what the cameraman has to wear). That's not reliant on the project or tech they use (MS also uses retinal projection), that's strictly a result of how much computing power is needed to drive the technology.

Even the Vuzix iWear, which is just hitting the market, is pretty large with limited FOV... and it relies on an external computer/phone to process the imagery.

Beyond that, the real state-of-the-art in small-form wearable AR glasses will be the ODG R-7's which will be on display at CES. (Small detail, Microsoft bought their tech for Hololens).

Don't get me wrong - I really want to buy into Magic Leap. But they've been excessively secretive for a variety of suspect reasons, and none of these secondhand accounts or vague youtube videos (or blatantly false animations of whales jumping around in gyms) are going to change people's minds about that.