Apple is rumored to be working on two versions of Vision Pro, however a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman alleges the Cupertino tech giant is aiming to beat Meta to the punch with a pair of AR glasses. Citing someone with knowledge of the matter, the report maintains Apple CEO Tim Cook has put development …
  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d be interested to hear from the youngest generation (15-20 YO) to hear if they care about this at all.

    I’m approaching 50 years old and had been an early adopter most of my adult life. Growing up from the 1980s through 2000s, there was a near-mainstream narrative that we were living in a unique era of emerging technologies. It was exciting and we were anxious for anything new.

    It seems to me that nothing is really new and there is nothing exciting, if not interesting, about technology today.

    I’ve actually been stripping down the technology from my life as it’s become too distracting to get things done and has prevented personal growth and the formation of memories. For one example, I recently subscribed to a print magazine because I prefer a tangible object that I can associate with in and of itself (and choose to own and collect).

    Looking at analog trends like vinyl records and film photography and cassette tapes, it seems like people are at least trying to incorporate tangible objects into a modern lifestyle. Then you have the trend of the dumb phones which indicate people are becoming more aware of the detriments caused by an always connected lifestyle. Thankfully, some car manufacturers are returning buttons to their cars in response to owner feedback about everything being a touch screen.

    I mean, I’m not a multi-trillion dollar organization with different departments studying the feasibility of future products but I do wonder if something like AR glasses are already more of our past than our future.

    I think there’s a more than reasonable desire for a device to help you through your day - especially in foreign countries. But do you think you want that to be glasses or something else?

    Lastly, this reminds me of the prediction from Michio Kaku in Physics of the Future about augmented reality contact lenses. Should we at least accept AR glasses as first step towards contact lenses? Do you think society would accept these 20-40 years in the future?

    • ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It seems to me that nothing is really new and there is nothing exciting, if not interesting, about technology today.

      There is the massive infiltration of personal privacy to surveil everyone for whatever reason that is currently deemed acceptable, so there is that - smh

  • alehel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t want ads thrown into my eyeballs. So that’s a big no from me.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I agree with you fully. It’s a sad state that we can’t even imagine wearable glasses tech without invasive ads

  • Imperor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This AR obsession is utterly baffling to me. There are so few real applications and the hardware requirements are insane so it’s not something that will get widely adapted anyway. Sure in a decade or so it might have matured enough to have shed all these issues, but AR/VR feels like a really out of touch thing to prusue, especially if you look at the garbage ideas they have on how to use it - virtual meetings??

    I get movies and games on these, possibly even some recording and porn, but these are not their B2B wet dreams anyway.

    • LiPoly@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In theory, there’s a Million awesome business applications for it.

      Let’s say you’re in construction and your glasses tell you exactly what to build where and how.

      You’re a waiter and the glasses tell you which table ordered what, needs attention, etc.

      You’re a network engineer and the glasses show you on every port which device is connected.

      And don’t even get me started on the military applications.

      Of course we’re not there yet. But that’s why they’re so obsessed with it. They want to be the first.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        In the current US political climate, giving everyone glasses with always-on cameras run by big tech companies seems particularly dangerous.

      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        All of this can be done with AR on a mobile phone.

        Only when you need to do this AND have both hands free do AR glasses become necessary. So surgery, bomb refusal or something niche like thar.

        • LiPoly@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          This might be the dumbest take I’ve heard today.

          Everything your smartphone does your laptop can do, too. Therefore, smartphones are useless!!

          Everything AR can do that your smartphone can do today will be a hundred times more convenient because you don’t have to carry a slab of glass with you all the time. You just have to wear glasses. Like I already do anyway.

          The only reason for smartphones to still exist in a world where AR is compact will be if we can’t figure out a way to efficiently input data without annoying everyone around us. As soon as that problem’s solved, nobody will be using smartphones anymore.

      • MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s a still frame from Star Trek The Next Generation, episode The Game

        The plot is a wearable device that is an AR “glasses” game that as you play the game it “makes you feel good” gets used to take over the Enterprise so terrorists can hijack it.

        At the time I imagine it was intended to be part of anti-drug campaigns with the AR and companies curating what you see to distract from reality angle/sentiment being more relevant today