Nothing brings out the haters like a discussion of ar/vr/virtual screens... always amazes me the lack of imagination displayed. I have no idea when these glasses will become a product, won't be soon I agree, but never? Ha. My experience over the past year with the APV shows the utility is there and only going to get better. In fact, one reason I don't use it more is the time and hassle of taking it out of its case LOL. I'd buy a pair of glasses in a heartbeat with similar functionality that I can slip in and out of my pocket. So having said that, many of you are repeating the same messages so I have some comments...
I would MUCH rather them take more time to crush bugs in their software. We have strayed SO far from "it just works".
You do know Apple is not a one product shop yes? They can and do work on several things. Keep forwarding your software bugs to Apple though (sincerely).
you scratch or break the lens, you cannot just walk to the nearest optometrist and get a replacement.
You do the same thing that you do if you scratch or drop your iPhone. Or your monitor stops working for whatever reason. Shrugs.
I hate having to wear reading glasses. I certainly would not wear AR glasses.
You never ever wear sunglasses? that puts you in the minority but okay. you don't. No one is forcing you to wear AR Glasses.
I don't wear glasses, I don't want to wear glasses, and I'm not going to
Same comment. You never wear sunglasses? Never? Ever? Find that hard to believe but okay.
I'm going to keep saying it. It's a future for a certain selection of people, in certain situations. It is not, and will never be, the default option for most.
So? Even if true, so? Apple Watches are not a default option for most, but it's a useful product category that some of us like. why does it make it bad that not everyone wears Apple Watches? Pretty sure they are staying in our future for a while anyway.
Apples bread and butter have always been with adults, computer people, and the thick creamy center of the bell curve when it comes to consumer electronics. Not tweens who want to record their daily vlog activities.
Yep and Apple's marketing strategy has always included exposing kids to their products in the school so when they eventually grow up (most do, not all) they consider buying Apple computers. Like it or not, kids these days are attracted to the bright and shiny. Maybe always have been I guess.
You may not be aware that Apple, as well as other tech companies, can be engaged in multiple R&D projects simultaneously. Some rise to the top and eventually become products. Some/many, don't.
Loved this comment so much had to repeat it.
VR/AR is not an update from anything. It's a new category, and despite companies pushing it like hell, it really hasn't caught on. It's niche, and doesn't provide any real benefit that my phone doesn't already provide. My phone has the benefit of being put away the moment I'm done with it, and it's not on my face
Your phone is IN your face many a time when using it, or at least other people. You know you have seen plenty of people with heads bent staring at their screens. So yeah. Big deal if it's on my face as glasses. And btw, who ever said or implied these things would be glued on to your head?! Take them off when you don't want their functionality, just like your phone. Come on, that's not a big leap of imagination.
As far as being a new category, nahhh, people have been looking at screens for decades now. The information has evolved from simple dots, to text, to crude graphics to games these days that look real. so what?
It's not an improvement, because I can't use my fingers to interact with it. At best, I have to talk to it, which is annoying and doesn't work in crowded places, quiet places, offices, the public, etc.
Haven't used an AVP much have you? I never talk to mine. My fingers are very useful in interacting. Great way to pull up email etc. Now granted, text input is not easy, but then text input on a piece of glass (phone) was not considered easy but people have managed the skill. I do imagine (there is that word again) that Apple will improve on the virtual keyboard idea such that any more or less flat surface can become a keyboard (for my fingers). You will say, but hey, for simple tasks like that I can use my phone. Yep. But I get tired of squinting down at a small screen. Maybe you don't. I love the idea of large portable screens that I can use anywhere.
My phone can do every one those things right now, I just have to aim said camera.
Yeah, and be very obvious doing it. Not everyone wants to wave a phone around. Cityscape photographers try to minimize their equipment footprint, not maximize it.
I just don't want every jackass walking down the sidewalk or hallway to know my name.
Feeling is probably mutual, not every jackass will want to know your name. But nor do you want every jackass airdropping you random pictures. Or at least I don't. That's why I limit the functionality to people on my group list. You honestly think that won't be a customization option?!
So, nothing I can’t already manage, except more overbearing and distracting since it will bombard me with details whether I need/want them at that time or not
When you don't want the information, you can, gasp, take them off. Seriously. Put it in your pocket with your phone.
And sure, my Apple Watch does little that my phone can't do, but I have both. My iPad does little that my phone can't do, but I have both, because sometimes I want that bigger screen.
Ah! So the solution would be to havee the device recognize gestures (like the AVP does). Also, having a screen that only you can (like the AVP does) see increases privacy. Of course, using your voice would be an option when your hands are otherwise occupied.
Another comment I liked so much I quoted it. The AVP haters don't get it that it wasn't made for them, AR glasses (or whatever we are going to call them) won't just fall out of the sky, they will require sophisticated gesture recognition and software, that's what the AVP is, a first step. I think it's a fun step, but I get it not for everyone.
And you are choosing to gloss over the additional management of the myriad of behaviors I’m sure you see the AR glasses being able to do. At some point, you are either leaving most of them on and trying to “tune them out”, or you are constantly turning individual ones on and off. That is part of the distraction to me. My phone is simply in my pocket until I decide I need it. Nothing to manage in the meantime because it is not interrupting me in any way.
You don't customize your phone or computers?! wow. I know I have mine customized for all sorts of things including focus, sleep time, what info it does or does not accept from strangers (hint, not not not for me), etc. It's not a big deal at all. You do it slowly over time.
When I say 'automatically', it seems obvious that there'd be a setting where you can customize things just like anything else these days. E.g. I don't like every iphone app sending me notifications - so I turn it off!
