Please fix iOS, macOS and hardware first, and then go focus on glasses without making a spectacle of yourselves 
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As for the AR glasses: Pass.
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Apple May Launch Augmented Reality Headset With Custom 'rOS' Operating System by 2020
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I was starting to get intrigued by the Augmented Reality stuff, but you just made me fear it more that nuclear war or bio terrorism!
It’s like visiting certain tech magazine sites without ad blocker turned on.
They need to update that Photoshop of the glasses to include the X's notch instead of that single little camera. I know it sounds totally like a joke, but the whole thing about that stuff on the X is that its what's necessary for AR (just happens to be on the wrong side of the phone to accomplish it.
So these glasses will then allow everyone to have the X notch on their forehead.
You see, this is why I'm slowly diverging from Apple's path. If you put on glasses with "the notch" and wear the goofy looking ear pods... I hate to say it, but you are the poster child for what school kids call a "dork".
So these glasses will then allow everyone to have the X notch on their forehead.
You see, this is why I'm slowly diverging from Apple's path. If you put on glasses with "the notch" and wear the goofy looking ear pods... I hate to say it, but you are the poster child for what school kids call a "dork".
That mockup above is going to look just as ridiculous as early iPhone mockups looked. In reality, they'll probably look more like this, a regular pair of trendy glasses that come in a variety of styles:
They'll probably have an IR depth laser and camera mounted behind color matched windows like the iPhone X on each corner, and will overlay the augmented reality onto the actual reality seen through the glasses themselves. So no actual color camera recording stuff, just the sensors to make the 3D overlays work. I imagine there would also be a proximity sensor on the inside edge to determine how far away the eye is from the focal plane of the glasses so it can adjust for slight perspective shifts in real-time. The problem is getting something that works at long distances. Perhaps they wouldn't need IR lasers but just a higher resolution IR camera on either side of the frames and use that stereo information to construct the depth map.
The problem I see is miniaturizing it into stylish, slim frames. The Apple Watch was a smart stepping stone towards this sort of technology. Apple has sort of paused making their devices thinner since the Apple Watch debuted. Phil Schiller has spoken before about how their obsession with making devices thinner has pushed forward their innovation in various areas. Perhaps now miniaturization in tiny devices is the driving force behind their innovation in hardware. These advances still trickle down to the iPhone and other devices that they make, allowing for better battery life and other improvements. That being said, even with Apple's crazy good chip team, I can't see them releasing anything until the early 2020s that could get you through a whole day while still being slim and stylish. So this report makes sense to me. I also have to wonder if they're looking into ways of harnessing energy from the body to power this device.
They'll probably have an IR depth laser and camera mounted behind color matched windows like the iPhone X on each corner, and will overlay the augmented reality onto the actual reality seen through the glasses themselves. So no actual color camera recording stuff, just the sensors to make the 3D overlays work. I imagine there would also be a proximity sensor on the inside edge to determine how far away the eye is from the focal plane of the glasses so it can adjust for slight perspective shifts in real-time. The problem is getting something that works at long distances. Perhaps they wouldn't need IR lasers but just a higher resolution IR camera on either side of the frames and use that stereo information to construct the depth map.
The problem I see is miniaturizing it into stylish, slim frames. The Apple Watch was a smart stepping stone towards this sort of technology. Apple has sort of paused making their devices thinner since the Apple Watch debuted. Phil Schiller has spoken before about how their obsession with making devices thinner has pushed forward their innovation in various areas. Perhaps now miniaturization in tiny devices is the driving force behind their innovation in hardware. These advances still trickle down to the iPhone and other devices that they make, allowing for better battery life and other improvements. That being said, even with Apple's crazy good chip team, I can't see them releasing anything until the early 2020s that could get you through a whole day while still being slim and stylish. So this report makes sense to me. I also have to wonder if they're looking into ways of harnessing energy from the body to power this device.
Ignorants!
Can't wait to send friend / contact requests via brain stimulated sensors on my IGlasses to people face id has recognized by looking at them. Welcome to the future
edit: This was a joke. But think of the possibilities! I hope to be still alive to be able using such technology!
I can see this being a big seller. As long as they can make them look good. And if there is anything Apple knows about it is making a product look good.
It would be really nice to have a display showing you
It would be really nice to have a display showing you
- How to get to your destination when walking
- Alerting you to upcoming appointments
- Who is calling on the phone, and allow you to say "send to voicemail"
- show text messages,
- show the wait at a restaurant
- show your shopping list, with item in your cart crossed off
- your pace while running or cycling an how much faster you need to run
- possible places the team across the way will place the ball
- the name of the person coming up to you that you have not seen in 10 years.
- .....
Here comes a year of fake fanboi images of Apple's supposed new product, until there are leaked images of the real thing.
If you want a job at Apple, apply, don't plague social media with your portfolio of wannabe Apple designs and hope you will get recognized and hired by Apple. I don't think one person was ever hired by Apple because they posted fan-fiction on Macrumors or other Apple fan-sites.
If you want a job at Apple, apply, don't plague social media with your portfolio of wannabe Apple designs and hope you will get recognized and hired by Apple. I don't think one person was ever hired by Apple because they posted fan-fiction on Macrumors or other Apple fan-sites.
Wearing a watch and a pair of glasses will be the future beyond the cell phone.
All I want is AR overlays made into the lenses of my glasses. Is that too much to ask? That's some **** that, if they could figure it out, would actually be a game changer and not some ancillary accessory product.
Think about having your walking/driving directions transparently overlayed in front of you. Being at networking events and having the linkedin app use facial recognition to pull up the profile stats (name, current job, etc) of the person you look at. Having a really cool AR overlay of all the ramen shops in the area after doing a siri search Necessities
Think about having your walking/driving directions transparently overlayed in front of you. Being at networking events and having the linkedin app use facial recognition to pull up the profile stats (name, current job, etc) of the person you look at. Having a really cool AR overlay of all the ramen shops in the area after doing a siri search
NecessitiesMy guess is that Apple care would be about 75% of the new cost so a paid always up to date hardware program will make sense.
Have you noticed that Apple only sells things that require hardware upgrade every year. Once an Apple product becomes a commodity and has a slower upgrade cycle, Apple just ignores it.
As someone who's been reasonably engaged in some AR/VR work for a few years (prototyping, some commercial work, CV & SDK development, I can tell you, I've seen some insanely amazing hardware, most of it still far out from production and some mediocre hardware that will never gain serious consumer traction. I've also got a chance to use/dev/own most of the platforms, including some, umm, new entries that haven't been made public yet [if ever].
There are some outstanding AR Use Cases in education, medicine, engineering - tasks that benefit from collaborative visualization. There's also been a ton of work to create virtual workspaces/offices, general computing UIs, that are just not to the point where they're ready to replace anything.
There are some outstanding AR Use Cases in education, medicine, engineering - tasks that benefit from collaborative visualization. There's also been a ton of work to create virtual workspaces/offices, general computing UIs, that are just not to the point where they're ready to replace anything.
What it can do is cause an accident.
[doublepost=1510158405][/doublepost]Years away? They should have been working on this ages ago. With their money surplus they should be more prolific - that’s just piss poor management . Apple’s success has made them complacent - just like Rocky Balboa in Rocky 3. They feel like they don’t really have to try hard anymore. One day Clubber Lang is going to clobber them. Steve is the one who truly had “the eye of the tiger”.
Apple has several years to change people’s minds. Including mine. When smart glasses and smart watches first appeared on the scene, I was pretty sure I didn’t want either. I had a chance and the funds to order Google Glass but I passed. I hadn’t worn a watch in 15 years, so I didn’t care about that either.
I caved pretty soon with the Apple Watch (ironically after seeing some friends with Android watches). Today when the fedex truck arrives, I will replace my Series 0 with a Series 3 (sans cellular).
Still on the fence with AR glasses. But as I said, it’s a few years off yet.
The iPhone was compelling from day one. Not mature by any means, but compelling. Like a moonshot. Fifty years at least before human interplanetary travel became a reality, but that didn’t stop it from being exciting.You know it’ll be at least 3rd/4th gen before it’s anywhere near compelling technology though, so still a decade off from being excited yet
I'm being completely serious here. What is the endgame with a product like this? People are already disconnected enough from reality and shut off their brains in certain situations because "my phone will figure it out". Now more than ever people using critical thinking is very important. Kids are having more and more anxiety and social phobias for example.
Not trying to put a wet blanket on anything.....just to figure out what exactly Augmented Reality in this form is going to do other than prevent people from living in the real world even more so.
Intelligent discussion welcome...
Not trying to put a wet blanket on anything.....just to figure out what exactly Augmented Reality in this form is going to do other than prevent people from living in the real world even more so.
Intelligent discussion welcome...
The only way customers are willing to wear a computer in the face
is for specialized work or if you can have it inside the eyeglass frame of your choice with no visual difference.
"You like these? Do you want it with Apple AR? Looks the same – does a lot."
Easy with the former – difficult with the latter:
is for specialized work or if you can have it inside the eyeglass frame of your choice with no visual difference.
"You like these? Do you want it with Apple AR? Looks the same – does a lot."
Easy with the former – difficult with the latter:
