I’m surprised that nobody has mentioned the Cornell Notes method which is practically the same thing as what this author describes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes
Looking Glass makes 3D spatial displays that don't require head gear or eye tracking. We are a small startup (~40 staff total) but we design, engineer, and manufacturing our own line of 3D display products including 3rd party software integrations, drivers, firmware, SDKs, and misc tooling.
I work for a hardware startup in NYC and HK called Looking Glass (www.lookingglassfactory.com). We create light field displays. Coming from a primarily software background, I quite agree that hardware is harder. We are venture funded but we are very lean due to the challenges of bootstrapping a display business and the capital requirements needed for manufacturing. We only have about 10 software engineers that are split across plugins, drivers, firmware, production tooling, our web platform, and solutions development. On the bright side, the technology presents extremely interesting problems.
I've been thinking this for a while now. But I don't think that means the disruption is done. Think about how TikTok has disrupted Facebook or how Salesforce has disrupted Oracle. All of the big tech incumbents today also have lots of lots of older product infrastructure (Maps for Google, Dynamics for Microsoft, Mac Pros for Apple, etc) that they must maintain which is also difficult and risky to eliminate. But that infrastructure also imposes a drag on development for new features and capabilities. It is possible to build something simpler and smaller with higher profitability than Google Search (as one relevant example).
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