As modern virtual reality welcomes its consumer moment with the impending releases of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, off in the distant far-less-sexy enterprise space exists a class of augmented devices that will eventually replace our Smartphone’s.

Hands and fingers may be the more precise input option in theory, but the discretion offered by eye-tracking will likely make it the go-to input method for augmented reality consumer devices moving forward (keep in mind that right now Meta 2 is first-and-foremost a developer kit for an enterprise-focused solution).

The mainstream dominance of augmented reality seems flexibly inevitable. While virtual reality is grabbing early headlines with consumer devices headed to market, keep in mind that companies have been building expensive enterprise-focused VR headsets for decades to get to this point. The Meta 2 is an early step towards an augmented future I’m sure we’re at least a decade from, but innovative developers ready to hop on the platform when it launches later this year can likely get us a head start.

Pre-orders of the $949 Meta 2 developer kit go live today and the company says devices will ship in Q3 of 2016.