Yes the Dystopian future scares many people. They are irrelevant. 20 years from now Surgeons will operate using AR/AI Medical technology that will completely transform health care. You won’t want to be a part of that “nonsense”.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'I'm Not Really Sure the Average Person Can Tell You What the Metaverse Is'
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Class resentment and embittered anti-tech consumers won’t matter in the future. They will adapt or die.
The Porn industry led the way in producing mass distribution of content in the first decade of the internet. Befor that, Some observers credit the porn industry with VHS becoming the de facto standard for consumer home video display over Sony’s Beta format. Consumers around the globe will eagerly move to whatever platform emerges to feed their appetite. It matters little what the many embittered and bewildered respondents here in MacRumors think. This coming tsunami will wash away millions of jobs and create many opportunities. the uneducated and the anti-tech crowd are irrelevant.
Yes the uneducated have little future in the globalized “knowledge worker” era. But the “uneducated” and “anti-technology” crowd will be completely wiped out. It’s going to be an exciting future!!! BRING IT!
I just bought an Ultra. I had been iWatch resistant for years thinking I couldn’t put “distance between me and technology”. I’ve only had it a week. It’s still early yet. But I read everything I could on minimizing “alerts” and disruption by the device and I enabled the available barriers to losing “control”. I’ve been surprised at how effective it’s been. Having this tech portal on my wrist has been “calming” in it’s presence. Now yes I could slip down the slippery…. But for now, I’m good.
It’s been mentioned in passing a few times. It’s hardly been shoved down anyone’s throats.
Blaming Tim Cook, or even Apple at all for the dangers of driving or other accident causing activities whilst using a phone is hilarious. Apple didn’t invent phones, and Tim Cook’s Apple wasn’t even the Apple that introduced it. It’s merely a technology problem which cannot be placed at the feet of any one specific company, let alone singling out a sole person to blame.
Try taking control of one’s own life and choose not to be distracted by tech enough to cause an accident. Or better still, don’t purchase it in the first place.
All that said, calling him ‘Timmy’ and using buzzwords like ‘woke’ - I suspect some people are just channeling whatever weird anger or hatred they have for a company and its CEO into this topic, but it could be about anything.
The Metaverse is a sad place that the ZuckerLizard will be the last person to leave.
You won't even need a full size bus when it's time for everyone there to go. A 15 passenger van will do just nicely.
I admittedly find a great deal of schadenfreude in Zuckerberg's failings. I like seeing stock in his company tank. I like seeing how horribly depressing the Metaverse is. I like seeing his revenue fall.
Meta AKA Facebook is simply a terrible thing. On par with cigarettes and fast food. I left social media almost 2 years ago, and what a good move that was.
You won't even need a full size bus when it's time for everyone there to go. A 15 passenger van will do just nicely.
I admittedly find a great deal of schadenfreude in Zuckerberg's failings. I like seeing stock in his company tank. I like seeing how horribly depressing the Metaverse is. I like seeing his revenue fall.
Meta AKA Facebook is simply a terrible thing. On par with cigarettes and fast food. I left social media almost 2 years ago, and what a good move that was.
Please “Cupcakes”. Don’t post too many of these “thoughtful” drama-free observations. Ive got to have a cup of coffee now, to clear my head. ————-Laughs!
He doesn’t spy on anyone. The idiot masses gladly volunteer their information.
The next decade or two will be an interesting battle
I do get the feeling the Metaverse will be huge starting out - will it become a fad remains the question.
Zuckerberg is counting on it being bigger than Facebook and Instagram - and maybe for the next generation of teens/20 somethings it will be.
AR/VR seems like it will be more of a tool than an escape or item of entertainment. Hoping it’s both.
I do get the feeling the Metaverse will be huge starting out - will it become a fad remains the question.
Zuckerberg is counting on it being bigger than Facebook and Instagram - and maybe for the next generation of teens/20 somethings it will be.
AR/VR seems like it will be more of a tool than an escape or item of entertainment. Hoping it’s both.
No thanks. I have no plans on ever being involved with Facebook being that close to my eyes.
Hugely beneficial for who though? For the average consumers or medical and science application?
Metaverse sounds like a goggle version of Second Life. Second Life didn't really have anything to offer most folk even though it was heavily promoted, even by businesses.
Everything Tim Cook has said – including in this article (!!) – is in opposition to the idea of Apple releasing a virtual reality headset, and in support of augmented reality and bringing people into the real world, with the internet overlaid on top of it, yet speculating sites like MacRumors and others insist that Apple is developing a VR headset.
Everything Apple has been doing since the launch of the iPhone has been trying to pull back our addiction to our phones and being more present. The Watch was the first manifestation of that, allowing us to carry technology with us and have access to the rich world of the internet and interconnectivity without getting lost in our phones, and instead while engaging in the real world, running, going on walks, playing sports, hiking and even diving – all in the spirit of experiencing life.
It makes no sense that they'd release a headset that goes against all of those guiding principles. I strongly believe that what Apple is releasing is an AR device, not a VR headset.
While Tim says that VR is fine for set periods and is not meant to live our lives in, it defeats the purpose of launching a device built for VR at all. They're working on a device that they want you to use for limited periods? It makes no sense to go back on their journey of building devices that enable users to being more present, even if it's just for one device before going to AR. They'll release an AR first device from the start.
I think we're about to be treated to Apple at its best. When the iPhone launched, many of the concepts and technology it was built on were 5 years ahead of their time. There were rumours of an Apple Phone or an iPod Phone but we did not think we'd see a pocket device running an operating system built on OS X, a full computer in our pockets which is why we saw the reactions from the crowd that I don't think we've seen from any product launch since. I suspect we'll see Apple's wearable AR glasses revealed to the world. They may not be seamless glasses at first and may look like tech, but they'll be AR first with perhaps the capability of running virtual reality experiences.
Everything Apple has been doing since the launch of the iPhone has been trying to pull back our addiction to our phones and being more present. The Watch was the first manifestation of that, allowing us to carry technology with us and have access to the rich world of the internet and interconnectivity without getting lost in our phones, and instead while engaging in the real world, running, going on walks, playing sports, hiking and even diving – all in the spirit of experiencing life.
It makes no sense that they'd release a headset that goes against all of those guiding principles. I strongly believe that what Apple is releasing is an AR device, not a VR headset.
While Tim says that VR is fine for set periods and is not meant to live our lives in, it defeats the purpose of launching a device built for VR at all. They're working on a device that they want you to use for limited periods? It makes no sense to go back on their journey of building devices that enable users to being more present, even if it's just for one device before going to AR. They'll release an AR first device from the start.
I think we're about to be treated to Apple at its best. When the iPhone launched, many of the concepts and technology it was built on were 5 years ahead of their time. There were rumours of an Apple Phone or an iPod Phone but we did not think we'd see a pocket device running an operating system built on OS X, a full computer in our pockets which is why we saw the reactions from the crowd that I don't think we've seen from any product launch since. I suspect we'll see Apple's wearable AR glasses revealed to the world. They may not be seamless glasses at first and may look like tech, but they'll be AR first with perhaps the capability of running virtual reality experiences.
Come on Tim we understand it perfectly. The metaverse will allow people to buy meta houses and other VR things because they can't afford real ones. or people can buy virtual sex because buying real sex is illegal.
I think Meta's metaverse will fail not because it's cgi but because it's insincere.
The Apple/Microsoft/Google metaverse will likely be based on the real world; like walking on the Moon or endless digital museums. Personally that's the angle I'd drive; that VR/AR solves the time/place/logistics problem of (many) real-world adventures.
I mean, headphones have done that to music (anywhere/anytime). Sure, a live concert is incomparable, but that doesn't mean non-live music isn't enjoyable too.
The Apple/Microsoft/Google metaverse will likely be based on the real world; like walking on the Moon or endless digital museums. Personally that's the angle I'd drive; that VR/AR solves the time/place/logistics problem of (many) real-world adventures.
I mean, headphones have done that to music (anywhere/anytime). Sure, a live concert is incomparable, but that doesn't mean non-live music isn't enjoyable too.
My understanding is its a place where you quit your real life and live in an imaginary life. He is trying to create The Matrix.
AR and VR has been talked about so long but its not picking up and now I am very skeptical if it ever will unless something technological advancement happens that makes it in the hands of the general public like phone cameras. Video cameras used to cost like $300-500 in the 90s , now they are a free bundle on a cellphone...like my front facing camera that I never use.
AR and VR has been talked about so long but its not picking up and now I am very skeptical if it ever will unless something technological advancement happens that makes it in the hands of the general public like phone cameras. Video cameras used to cost like $300-500 in the 90s , now they are a free bundle on a cellphone...like my front facing camera that I never use.
Have you ever built anything from a kit? Walked somewhere to which you needed directions? Gone to the grocery store?
You do not think it would be easier if you had glasses on that identified the next piece and showed you how to move it to put it into place, and exactly where it went? Have you had Maps talk in your ear while you were walking to give you directions? How about either glasses showing you arrows to get you to the aisle and product you want? Those are all AR and there are a million more of those examples.
I mentioned already ar is heavily used in cars with overhead displays and parking assistance. Most people are using it already without even acknowledging they are.
Haha, Tim
Zuckerberg says there will be 1 billion people using metaverse in the next 10 years:
Mark Zuckerberg envisions a billion people in the metaverse spending hundreds of dollars each
Zuckerberg is happy with the progress of Meta Platforms' Quest 2 headset. Now he has a big goal for 2030 that involves a user base spending meaningfully.www.cnbc.com
I'll laugh at you before Zuckerberg who isn't totally crazy with that forecast.
VR's growing leaps and bounds, and once someone gets the head sets smaller and lighter and gets the user experience right, it's going to be a firestorm of adoption and growth.
In 2019, 14 million VR headsets were sold. In 2021, AR/VR device shipments grew 92.1% year over year. *This is not crap like Google Cardboard and Samsung's phone VR which both died deaths prior. These were Vive and Occulus level headsets.
It is now a $12 billion market. Hardware/user experience and developer support are VR's barriers. There aren't really any AAA VR experiences (or AR for that matter) because the user base doesn't justify that type of investment for development but it's growing.
VR glasses have already been invented and are not many years away. The data and facts are not in your favor. It was predicted that the market wouldn't hit over $12 billion until at least 2024 and beat estimates by two years.