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'Apple Glass' Rumored to Start at $499, Support Prescription Lenses, and More
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have you watched the video?? its not fake, c'mon. Just because its too good to be true doesn't mean it isnt.
Apple dropped the "i" with the Apple Watch, its not coming back mate.
Apple.. Glass? Seriously? Other than the Google elephant in the room, do they not recall how fast the internet coined the term glasshole (sorry, admins) for those pompous early adopters?
How is this new and innovate now? Ever heard of Google?
Bah, but Google already had Google Glass and it's not in Apple's nature to copy naming...
Also, Glass is a stupid word to use for marketing because it so easily becomes ass. I'm not a betting man but I would wager with you it will never be called Apple Glass.
I would say i'll wait for the demo to cast final judgement but Im not buying another product that requires the iphone to work at all times. That hindered AW0 performance and ruined application development until changed later. And there's no tinted lens option so these glasses are only good without direct sunlight. I'd rather not be down over 500.00 to beta test a product again that should have at the very basic tinted lens (transitions) for all day/night use. Maybe they'll change it.. but I doubt it for a gen 1 product.
Google never really did much with it though.
I'm guessing Apple will sort of create the industry standard and we'll see a wave of glasses after this.
That was crappy tech, hence the flop. Now, LiDAR advancements and the compression of tech can look like normal glasses and not some stupid aluminum strip with clunky tech. They tried to be ahead of their time with google glass and released a highschool science fair project instead.
There is so much potential in this kind of devices and appears that the technology is the only problem.
Key points for success:
- Display in the glass and all hardware in the frame. No protrusions and weird stuff.
- Frames in different styles and colors. As many options, better.
- Thin frame. These should not distingish from normal glass from a couple of meters.
- Battery life of 12h of use. That is, it should last a full working day.
- Usefulness and core features that actually make your day-to-day life and work better and more convenient.
- Intiutive control via phone, gestures, voice and touches on the frame.
- Integrated headphones that let you hear without having something plugged in your ears.
Basically what Google Glass had to be, but never accomplished. Hopefully the state of the technology is already there.
Key points for success:
- Display in the glass and all hardware in the frame. No protrusions and weird stuff.
- Frames in different styles and colors. As many options, better.
- Thin frame. These should not distingish from normal glass from a couple of meters.
- Battery life of 12h of use. That is, it should last a full working day.
- Usefulness and core features that actually make your day-to-day life and work better and more convenient.
- Intiutive control via phone, gestures, voice and touches on the frame.
- Integrated headphones that let you hear without having something plugged in your ears.
Basically what Google Glass had to be, but never accomplished. Hopefully the state of the technology is already there.
I think the only viable option would be for the lenses having a special surface on the backside used for a HUD style projection.
Prescriptions can vary by such a lot of factors that Apple doing the logistics isn't really an option, so they would need to partner with some lensmaker or better just put out a definition on how that surface has to look. You would than go to Apple, buy the basic glasses and then have an optician replacing the lenses.
Everything else would end up in a similar quality as the reading classes you can buy in a supermarket -> useless for those really need classes.
I would say on top of all the types of input support, eye-tracking should be one of them. Let me close a window just by looking at it for God's sake.
This could be a great spectacle!
I can already see the motto on the invitations: "Wait and See".
I guess they leak stuff to test the waters of things but I wish it was kept quiet until release. It makes the real announcement kind of boring.
Hello to readers of this thread ten years from now.
They can actually change their mind about the price and even the name, I wouldn't be so sure about those details.
Other info may be correct, like the need to have an iPhone nearby and only LiDAR without an actual camera. They better be charged via Qi, nobody wants to connect a cable to a pair of glasses.
Other info may be correct, like the need to have an iPhone nearby and only LiDAR without an actual camera. They better be charged via Qi, nobody wants to connect a cable to a pair of glasses.
I was worried they won’t have prescription lenses, so happy it won’t be the case. I was also expecting them to be much more expensive. Excited.
I’m pretty excited about these. That price is not bad at all, but I’ll probably wait till gen 3 or so to buy.
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I mean this is the same company that actively uses something called a “Pro Max”
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I mean this is the same company that actively uses something called a “Pro Max”