Not sure what your point is - EVs have a hood to look under too. The OP didn't say anything about ICE - that's your assumption.
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This would most likely be a complement to the apple watch. Why do the work of attaching new sensors when there's already a device strapped on your wrist?
A little while ago, I read an article describing an Apple patent that suggested a way to manipulate a lens into providing different perscriptions. If Apple manages that with their AR glasses, it could be the end of throwing away old lenses when your prescription changes. I've been wearing contacts for decades (lately, multifocal ones). I'd stop wearing those and only wear my Apple Glasses if Apple manages this feat.
Not if the Apple Watch continually progresses to being a health and fitness tracker.
never had glasses , but i hear your statement being voiced in every AG discussion , I guess it is a big deal for a major part of the population , and as such i assume its a priority for Apple , if tech can do it , Apple will do it , not sure on the 1st gen , but for sure down the line.
You have no basis for your first opinion. The photo shown is from top-down, so it is unknown how thick the arms of the glasses are. More room for batteries than Apple Watch. But more importantly, we don't know what work these glasses have to do. At a minimum the glasses' SOC would need to handle networking, paint/project some pixels, and drive sensor(s) - e.g. a LiDAR sensor like what's on the iPhone 12. Those functions don't require that much energy and should allow the glasses to last all day. All computationally intensive tasks (e.g. AR rendering) will, no doubt, be done on the iPhone.
I see real value in proper Augmented Reality glasses (ie. Industry, medicine) - and they’d have to be the size of a VR headset to have the FOV - but not for ordinary people walking around.
As for ‘Glasses’ with only a tiny screen in the corner of your vision? I don’t really see the value in that at all and Google Glass has shown us that people don’t like interacting with people wearing little cameras pointing at them.
As for ‘Glasses’ with only a tiny screen in the corner of your vision? I don’t really see the value in that at all and Google Glass has shown us that people don’t like interacting with people wearing little cameras pointing at them.
The OP specified performing an oil change. EVs have no oil to change.
Under the hood of any Tesla, you mostly find storage, the wiper fluid, the 12V accessory battery, and the air filter. I find it doubtful that anyone who wants to deal with those things will have any issues being able to find it. It's like someone wanting to change the batteries in a smoke alarm but not knowing where the battery compartment is... it seems quite difficult to miss. Oh, the only visible feature is the one that needs to be interacted with?
The frame will be permanently molded to fit Jony Ive's face. The lenses will be made specifically for Ive's own eyes. If anyone else has a problem with these glasses, it's their fault for not having the proper anatomy.
Point taken about the oil change, but "oil change" was just an example of fixing stuff in a car with AR potentially providing tremendous help. While I'm sure you can fix anything on the Tesla without consulting any manuals, others may not be as intelligent or, god forbid, not own a Tesla, where everything is no doubt labeled beautifully. I know I'd be hard pressed to find the air filter in my Nissan Leaf Plus or be able to tell apart the brake fluid container from the wiper fluid container.
I think real life cases will blow our minds. This is going to be incredible. But probably not for a long while. Network has to be good enough that it is seamless and even VR headsets are often not feeling that fast yet.
As you say, there’s video, and there’s also likely a lot more processing, and crucially AirPods don’t last anything like all day.
I think it’s pretty clear from the picture that the arms are very thin (vertically), around the same height as the notches where they attach to the frame.
I despise Google and Android, however I loved my Google Glass. I cannot wait for Apple to roll out a device with a heads up display. I would never use a phone again, especially since Apple will do it properly. Typically it is the poor people who couldn't afford Glass, and those who never owned a pair, who take to the forums to trash Google Glass. It was truly ahead of its time.
I don't know what the use case is for these?
I don't ever hear anyone outside asking Siri to do anything via their iPhone, Apple Watch or AirPods - they tend to feel a bit embarrassed talking to a device in public. Having to control these glasses via Siri while you're outside where you can make the most use of them (maybe a maps overlay) will be just as embarrassing. On the flip side, if you're in your house you aren't likely to need many of the things that the glasses would offer, like that map overlay.
Receiving a message and seeing it in front of your eyes feels like it would be cool, but how would you reply? Using Siri? Who's gonna do that while they're in a queue for their coffee? It's embarrassing.
I think the only people who will have the confidence to speak out loud in public are the over-confident trainers on Fitness+ (which is a great service, by the way).
I don't ever hear anyone outside asking Siri to do anything via their iPhone, Apple Watch or AirPods - they tend to feel a bit embarrassed talking to a device in public. Having to control these glasses via Siri while you're outside where you can make the most use of them (maybe a maps overlay) will be just as embarrassing. On the flip side, if you're in your house you aren't likely to need many of the things that the glasses would offer, like that map overlay.
Receiving a message and seeing it in front of your eyes feels like it would be cool, but how would you reply? Using Siri? Who's gonna do that while they're in a queue for their coffee? It's embarrassing.
I think the only people who will have the confidence to speak out loud in public are the over-confident trainers on Fitness+ (which is a great service, by the way).
It’s all relative of course but my point is they dropped price significantly (by $80 in just the first year).
I thought you were going to say, “while the AR places (insert attractive model’s name) over my wife.” Lol
Plus the convenience and “hiddenness” of it... it has so many features that go behind curtains 99% of the time. One can fall asleep with the watch also because it’s easy to forget that it’s being worn, it only “reappears” when it has to haptic-tap the wrist... I feel glasses are not quite there at the same level especially for people that don’t really need corrective ones, feels more like a tool for now at least; I got a Watch because it was given as a gift and didn’t know I wanted one.