I'll bite. seems like apples and oranges, IHADSS tech is over 30 years old

My point exactly. The deep pockets of the defense industry has had 30 years to go "well this is a nice idea but" and instead, they largely went "nope." The F-35 has a $400k nerd helmet because there's this one Israeli company that's been going gangbusters on helmet displays ever since and there is no tech that wasn't slapped on the F-35. At an acquisition cost of $1.5b per fighter, what's a $400k helmet between friends?

Cadillac first demo'd a heads-up display in 1982. GM finally put it on a Corvette in '99. What has been an obvious and necessary innovation for fighter aircraft since the DeHavilland Mosquito finally made it onto passenger aircraft in the mid '90s... and fully-farkled sports cars not long after. I'd pay extra for a HUD, and I'd pay more extra to turn off half the shit Cadillac thinks you need because the point is the disco lights, not the information. There's a logical progression in HUDs, from cutting-edge to expensive car to, probably, normie shit in the next ten years. The logical progression with AR is from "yay" to "nope" to "I guess this is a buzzword now."

My switches and dials are programmable. They switch based on what I have focus on. I've got a $5k control surface that will latch to anything across two computers. I've had it for ten years. Never once - not once - have I had the slightest desire to slave it to anything but Pro Tools. Every time I download new software for it, which is often, because I've been a part of the NDA beta for the entirety of that ten years, I hit the "stop switching focus" radio button in the control software. This shit won a red dot design award in 2006 and everyone went "...nope." Nobody wants that. You think it's cool because you've never been in a position to need knobs and switches at all so it's all hypothetical to you.