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safely there and back without incident, and now had confidence that the voice he was hearing wouldn’t steer him into walls.
    Chris decided it was time to let the men experience the system for themselves. He started by walking them through the book reading application. He enjoyed watching the two men, holding invisible books and turning pages. The effect was almost comical, like watching a mime in a business suit.
    ‘Normally your repeater is connected to your own personal data stream,’ said Chris, then he remembered Joshua, ‘I mean, the phone thingy is hooked up to your own pair of glasses.’ The visitors both laughed.
    ‘I’m not that bad,’ said Joshua.
    ‘The system learns from your experiences. If you meet someone it remembers their name from analyzing your conversation and picks up on personal details such as family members, ages, birthdays and so on. The headsets you’re using are individual to you but I took a copy of my profile so you had something to work with. Maynard, if you look at Joshua, you’ll see what I mean. Joshua, take a look at that monitor on the desk. It’s showing the real-time feed from each of our sets. You’ll be able to see what Maynard is seeing including the overlay.’
    As Maynard looked at Joshua, the monitor showed a callout, slightly translucent with details: his name, wife’s name, interests, relationship to Chris, and date of their last meeting. There was even an option to show a transcription of their most recent conversation. ‘Wow,’ he said.
    ‘I know,’ said Chris. ‘It kind of has that effect on people.’
    Joshua stood and walked into the bathroom that adjoined the office and looked in the mirror. Chris smiled to himself; he knew what he was trying to do. Instead of the personal information he had seen earlier, the system displayed a callout that simply read ‘The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.’
    He called to Joshua in the bathroom, ‘Please forgive the quote. The system selects something on the subject of mirrors or vanity at random from the internet. The facial recognition algorithm works with reflections. It knows you’re looking in the mirror. The quote is a kind of “Easter Egg” ,a little message from the programmer, as it were.’
    ‘Very nice, Mr. Sanders,’ said Joshua, ‘I hope there aren’t too many more “Easter Eggs” in the system.’
    Joshua looked a little concerned, he was still smiling but Chris realized he should probably have taken out his little joke before showing his work to the people that paid the bills. ‘No, that’s the only one,’ he said, but inside he was kicking himself.
    Maynard took off his glasses and started to examine them once more. ‘How does the audio work?’ he said.
    ‘I’m pleased you asked about that. It’s remarkably clear isn’t it? I’m generating vibrations in the portion of the glasses that sits around the ear. The vibrations are heard directly by the inner ear bypassing the eardrums. It means you can still hear everything going on around you as well as the sound that is provided by the system. It’s quite scary sometimes as it seems like the voices are inside your head. I guess in a way they are.’
    ‘Amazing,’ said Maynard. He then turned to look at Joshua who seemed to take this as a prompt.
    ‘We’re very impressed with what you’ve been doing Chris.’ He paused as though trying to find the right words. Chris had a feeling bad news was on its way.
    Please don’t pull the funding , he thought.
    ‘Maynard is going to be working with you from now on. He’ll help with the eventual transition of your research to commercial ventures. Don’t worry, he won’t get in your way.’
    Chris didn’t know what to make of this. He knew that he would need to hand his baby over eventually but hadn’t realized how close that day had come.
    ‘There’s one more thing,’ said Joshua, ‘we’ve been using some of your facial recognition and data streaming algorithms for a little