It will replace most people's smartphones eventually.
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Apple Glasses Will Reportedly Use Sony's 'Cutting-Edge' OLED Micro-Displays to Deliver 'Real AR Experience'
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Surely this is bread-and-butter stuff for this site? If you think the rumours are pointless, ignore them, but what sort of Apple-based rumours site wouldn't run this story? The whole point is they report the rumours, us users decide how to interpret them.
If you think "influencers" are annoying now... just you wait until each of them have one of these bad boys as they're walking around filming their Mr Beast type challenges.
I wonder what they’ll be good for?
I hope it isn’t too distracting.
I just can’t wrap my head around it. I guess if it had Siri you could talk to it it could pull from your phone doing the heavy computing then display infoin front of you without having to pick up your phone if your hands are busy.
mob man imagine you’re cooking and you want to pullup a recipe you have in your notes! Yes! Things are getting interesting. I’m seeing it now. Yes! 🙌
I hope it isn’t too distracting.
I just can’t wrap my head around it. I guess if it had Siri you could talk to it it could pull from your phone doing the heavy computing then display infoin front of you without having to pick up your phone if your hands are busy.
mob man imagine you’re cooking and you want to pullup a recipe you have in your notes! Yes! Things are getting interesting. I’m seeing it now. Yes! 🙌
Anyone watch the Showtime series The Affair? They had a storyline that was in the near future and a woman put on a pair of glasses to see what the weather was like on a day in the past. Very cool technology. I'm wondering if Apple Glass will be like that.
I see endless possibilities but I think the tech is still a ways off, and if Apple introduces something in 2022, my guess is, it’ll be very limited. But, when the tech matures, it will be VERY disruptive.
Why buy anything with a screen at all, for example, when you can have displays as big or as small as you’d like so that you can have a theater-like viewing experience or have a 50” virtual computer display in front of you. Anything involving 3D will be impacted: design, construction, manufacturing, engineering, architecture, art, etc. Real-time translations of signs, graphics superimposed on roadways to guide you, real-time information about POIs, restaurants, things, people in your contacts, gaming, virtual training, etc., will become more practical and/or much better than what’s available today through the smartphone.
I, for one, can’t wait for AR glasses to materialize and realize its full potential.
Can you give some examples of revolutionary use cases?
I fear I've gotten cynical in my old age and all I can think of are the negatives. Charging every eight hours, already disconnected people becoming even more distracted by constantly looking at their glasses screen instead of being present, another device to upgrade every other year (I can't see this being decoupled from the phone and/or watch and, unless it's insanely expensive, I don't see Apple wanting to do so), creeps creepin' (even if Apple doesn't let you record video or take pictures or whatever, it will be jailbroken and made to do so), probably intrusive advertising introduced by third-parties...
I'm not trying to be a party pooper, I genuinely am interested in what pros would make this technology exciting. I see benefits for education and simulation / training, but I'm still having trouble finding the every day consumer value. I truly hope it goes beyond 'not having to look at your watch'...
Eventually is a very long time. But I don’t see that. Hard to do games, check account balances, handle passwords, etc with just glasses with AR.
If the glasses provide compelling usefulness and look stylish, I could see Apple offering prescription-less glasses and people buying them. Some people already wear prescription-less glasses for fashion (usually women). Adding compelling functionality would make it even more commonplace.
hopefully we leapfrog that and go to implants. Induce a signal into optic nerve or brain to provide the augmented visuals.
Lots of potential, but I feel a useful product is still a ways off - like in a *very* long time. Of course depends on how you define "useful", and that's an individual thing. For example, I don't have a smart watch. The Apple Watch does nothing for me and I don't find it compelling enough that it would enhance my life in any way. But millions of others find the Apple Watch super useful, so good for them.
I'd love smart glasses where you could pull up useful info through voice commands, but that would require something like Siri to actually be useful. I find Siri 100% useless, 100% of the time I've tried it. I'm not interested in Siri throwing up a page of google searches on a term it misunderstood. It's worse than useless, it's a hindrance. So I never use it.
What will be the interaction mode of smart glasses? Because if we have to rely on Siri, I'm hosed, as I don't believe Siri will ever have the level of AI that would make it useful, at least not in my lifetime (or the next 40 years more or less).
Now, if I can interact with the smart glasses with reliability and ease, then an amazing new world of possibilities opens up. Will it happen? I'm sceptical. We'll see. YMMV.
I'd love smart glasses where you could pull up useful info through voice commands, but that would require something like Siri to actually be useful. I find Siri 100% useless, 100% of the time I've tried it. I'm not interested in Siri throwing up a page of google searches on a term it misunderstood. It's worse than useless, it's a hindrance. So I never use it.
What will be the interaction mode of smart glasses? Because if we have to rely on Siri, I'm hosed, as I don't believe Siri will ever have the level of AI that would make it useful, at least not in my lifetime (or the next 40 years more or less).
Now, if I can interact with the smart glasses with reliability and ease, then an amazing new world of possibilities opens up. Will it happen? I'm sceptical. We'll see. YMMV.
Musk is working on that with neuralink, so I'm hoping that gives us freedom from all these voice assistants lol
The Apple Watch is a way to only send important notifications through, instead of having to take out your phone. Now the Apple Glasses can filter the Apple Watch notifications even more.
Battery won’t be an issue any more than it is with the Apple Watch. Charge at night, wear all day (if you want).
People are already at near-maximum levels of distraction with phones. I’d rather have them distracted with their heads up than down.
Intrusive advertising? Understandable worry, but Apple has a pretty good track record against that.
Games will be far better. AR devices will be easily and quickly adaptable to VR for totally immersive experiences.
I’m not sure what your concern is with bank accounts and passwords. Biometric access is easily baked in with AR. Passwords will be automatic and fully secure. If you occasionally need to use a keyboard or other input devices, you’ll have the option to integrate those as needed, just like you can with phones now.
You’re right, ‘eventually’ could mean quite a while for the tech to fully mature. But if Tim Cook says this is the next big thing and will pervade our entire lives, I would reconsider being so dismissive.