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Apple Glasses Rumors Resurface as iPhone Supplier Tapped to Make Parts for Augmented Reality Product
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If FaceID stops working with regular Glasses and will only work with Apple Glasses, what do you think people will do? It's coming and we all better be prepared. The question is will people fall for this or finally tell Apple to go kick rocks.
Reading this thread it looks like we’re back at square one of the Apple cycle of hater denial.
1) “Apple will never do X.”
Next on deck:
2) “Okay, Apple is doing X, but people will never buy it.”
3) “Everyone buying X are sheep.”
4) “Went ahead and bought X, but *complaint about non-inclusion of outdated technology*”
5) (When next rumor comes along) “Apple was great when it did X, but now it lost its way!”
Always the same cycle every damn time.
1) “Apple will never do X.”
Next on deck:
2) “Okay, Apple is doing X, but people will never buy it.”
3) “Everyone buying X are sheep.”
4) “Went ahead and bought X, but *complaint about non-inclusion of outdated technology*”
5) (When next rumor comes along) “Apple was great when it did X, but now it lost its way!”
Always the same cycle every damn time.
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Where do you shop for glasses? My titanium ones were only a few hundred. Maybe a Hermès brand could be >$1000 but you’re buying for vanity there. The vast majority of frames are <$300.
As a fellow engineer who has worked with Apple in the past, and i know there’s a few of you on here.
NEVER tell an engineer at Apple that they can’t do something, or it’d at least 3-5 years out.
Those people are in my option the most brilliant and clever in the business.
The things those people can create are astonishing. AR glasses is NOT far fetched. Just because you can’t understand how they work or how they can be built doesn’t mean it’s out of reach for everyone else.
NEVER tell an engineer at Apple that they can’t do something, or it’d at least 3-5 years out.
Those people are in my option the most brilliant and clever in the business.
The things those people can create are astonishing. AR glasses is NOT far fetched. Just because you can’t understand how they work or how they can be built doesn’t mean it’s out of reach for everyone else.
With Jony Ive involved, anything is possible.I could so see (no pun intended) someone modding them to look like a VISOR from Star Trek. Hook them up directly to your visual cortex, while they're at it.
Ooh, what about the Borg? Tap into the brain's power, add in some form of wireless communication (wifi, LTE, whatever), and you'll be your own hotspot.
Apple Computer was no more in 2007, has been Apple Inc ever since.I miss the days when Apple Computer made... well, computers.
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This is the product I expect to come from AR and wearables. Apple will do it right and I will be the proud owner of a new pair of iGlasses.
The Apple Watch is very successful (the best smartwatch on the market) I think moving more into more wearables is the next step especially for AR, I do think this is a fair few years off yet (that’s if Apple even do it).
People doubted that Apple would do a smartwatch and now look where we are, the most successful and the best smartwatch on the planet is being made by Apple. Only time will tell tho
People doubted that Apple would do a smartwatch and now look where we are, the most successful and the best smartwatch on the planet is being made by Apple. Only time will tell tho
You already know that somewhere deep in Apple labs there is a working prototype that is knocking everyones socks off with the amazeballs of what it can do when linked to a next gen prototype watch and AirPods...
The future will be amazing. As long as it works with prescription lenses.... knowing Apples engineers they have found a away round that!
The future will be amazing. As long as it works with prescription lenses.... knowing Apples engineers they have found a away round that!
I’m assuming that you would buy the frames and then have your optician fit your prescription lenses?
Like bigger iPhones and wireless charging.
But, other companies do it too. The headphone jack has disappeared on some brands that poked fun at it with the iPhone 7 lost its jack.
No offense, but I don’t want “always on” glasses recording everywhere I go. THAT was the real failure of Google Glass... people don’t want OTHER PEOPLE recording them and then using the Internet to automatically identify them. There’s a whole host of privacy and data aggregator problems with “glasses” products. I’m sure ADVERTISERS love them because they can track all sorts of stuff, but people not do much.
I'm surprised it took so long to get to privacy, this should be a huge concern. At least when someone has their phone out I know they're potentially recording or up to something.
I can just imagine teaching a class while 20 students sit there and take them send pictures of each other all over the place in the glasses they're allowed to wear because "they need them to see" and then getting five angry parents the next day demanding to know how their children's photos ended up on some cyber bully group on Facebook during school hours without them using their phones. The fed and state governments need to get to work on regulating this before it becomes a thing.
I don't really care about glasses that do AR only. Auto-focus glasses do interest me, e.g.:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600963/eyeglasses-that-can-focus-themselves-are-on-the-way/
Something like that from Apple would be huge, imho, and Apple has the resources to do it and do it well.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600963/eyeglasses-that-can-focus-themselves-are-on-the-way/
Something like that from Apple would be huge, imho, and Apple has the resources to do it and do it well.
