Cupertino, California.
The early afternoon light cut through the circular glass walls of Applē's executive suite and the air was thick with tension. The big screen showed Brian Carter's Lucid unboxing looping endlessly. Then, on another screen was the ongoing livestream of one of the tech reviewers and he was currently playing the most immersive game they could ever imagine.
Timi sat still, hands folded, with an unreadable expression on his face.
"Run me through it again," he said.
"Unknown company," Greg Faraday, VP of Hardware, began. "Product: Lucid. Marketed as wearable tech. But it's not AR — it's neural projection. No power ports, no processor lag, zero thermal output. Seven hundred dollars retail."
Timi's eyes narrowed slightly at the ridiculous pricing, "Seven hundred?"
"Yes, sir."
A long pause. Timi was trying to understand why and how someone will price something so advanced so dirt cheap. Are they trying to ruin what they all have built over the years?
