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Yall remember google glasses? Seems like a decade ago.
There was a hilarious few week period in 2013 where I saw multiple people slam into the handrails and doors on muni busses in SF while glassed out. Also people yelling at them about not consenting to being recorded etc but that was much less amusing. Within a couple weeks you entirely stopped seeing them in public spaces.
I can’t imagine walking around in public with something like this Apple headset on, let alone with the insane price tag… which means that people are definitely going to do it.
Yep. I remember their users being called ‘glassholes’ too.
Apple Vision users new nik?: ISores
I think the end goal would be AR/VR built into your glasses that are as light as current day glasses. We are probably a long time away from that, but I feel like most VR headsets right now are beta versions of this end goal.
“a long time” probably means like a decade for this kind of stuff, so at least there’s that to look forward to
Nope
Short answer : no.
Long answer : noooooooooooooooo.
No for one simple reason: I have a wife. We like to experience content together (watching movies/TV, playing games). None of which I can do without not one but two of these things. No thanks.
It’s funny how obvious this point is and yet it seems to be getting kind of quietly ignored.
I’ve heard a lot of pundits excitedly talking about using this headset to get rid of TVs in their house. I keep wondering how they think that’ll go over with their families.
The Vision product is a more like a monitor than AR glasses you wear all day. It makes nods to the practicality of strapping a monitor to your face: you can unplug, slide the battery in your pocket, stand up and walk into a different room to get something without disengaging from the monitor. If someone wants to chat, you can fade in reality and let them see your eyes so that the two of you can more comfortably (we’ll see about this!) exchange a few words.
Without things like that, strapping a monitor to your face to get great eye tracking, immersive photos/video, and the giant digital canvas for your application windows might prove too inconvenient. For example, needing to pull the goggles off to answer a quick question from someone else in the room could make the whole endeavor not worth the hassle in some settings. If those settings turn out to be popular (e.g. using this at work in an office), then Apple is one step ahead.
I think that AR glasses you wear when out and about will be a different product. Admittedly, the photography aspect of Vision is a tentative move in this direction. I think it’s being positioned more as a thing where you’d pull it out to capture a particular scene, then put it away again, rather than something you’d wear for an entire outing (the battery life largely precludes such a use, after all). I don’t think it’s a great fit for this now as it seems like it’d require the equivalent of a camera bag to bring with you, but undoubtedly some people will capture some amazing images.
No one talks about how bad it is to have tons of little LEDs in your eyes. My eyes are already messed up, and I can’t use VR for more than an hour before I feel like I want to die. So it’s a HARD pass from people like me. Talk to me once you put screens in the walls, not on them.
Headsets already feel outdated. They seem inconvenient, uncomfortable, and take you away from life instead of enhancing it. Whatever happened to google glass? I disliked that for many reasons but at least it wasn’t a headset.
Google happened to it. Right when some of us started doing practical things with it. Still haven’t forgiven them for that.
Can’t have a product potentially get past the early adopters phase can they.
I still don’t think I should have told them I was working on a software prosthetic for it.
Oh, what is that?
I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.
Did you end up taking it anywhere from there?
Honestly, yeah, looking forward to when my budget lets me get the SimulaVR headset. Do I want something with a fraction of the software or apps as my laptop. No, that would be a huge step backwards. Do I want to have to buy software and jump through 15 hoops to modify anything? no.
So unfortunately Apple’s ISore and Facebook’s head-mounted surveillance device aren’t for me, but a full Linux machine with x86 with infinite displays and full body interactions, for sure.
I don’t even want to wear clothes half the time never mind a giant computer that’s tracking my eyeballs.
For all the faults Google glass had, at least they were similar in size to regular glasses. I would only consider these things if they were as non-intrusive as possible, aka not ski goggles
That’s why when Google revealed the Glasses I thought “that’s it, that’s the headwear device that will be the future, it’s literally just glasses!”.
Alas, I should have known back then there was one thing going against that device’s survival odds: it was a project from project slayer, Google.
I hope this trend won’t last. My smartphone consumption is too high already.
smartphone consumption
Smartphones Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 smartphones each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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