That's a good point. I agree that $499 is the sweet spot.And pricing will have to be in the $500 range (like theWatch).
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Apple Moving Forward on Semitransparent Lenses for Upcoming AR Headset
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Agreed - I don't go anywhere without my Apple watch. Now I will say this - Apple should seriously consider developing a search capability that can integrate with siri to make these work well. Apple should by Duck Duck Go and put that into the APple Ecosystem
Are you supposed to switch back and forth between AR and your prescription?
The prescription lens YNH big is the hardest part. Won’t sell many of these with $500 lens on top of the $$ for the glasses them selves
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I’d be looking at the girls. Lol. Would forget why I was there.
When this technology matures, it might completely replace the need to have a monitor on a computer, or on a phone or tablet. The glasses could project a 32 inch 4K screen that appears to be a couple of feet in front of you.
I don't mean AR or VR, I mean replacement for an LCD screen.
in 20 years Apple replaces these with "Apple contact lenses" that do exactly the same thing.
I don't mean AR or VR, I mean replacement for an LCD screen.
in 20 years Apple replaces these with "Apple contact lenses" that do exactly the same thing.
I used to wear glasses and I hated it. You have a frame around your vision; you have uncomfortable bits on your nose and the sides of your head; it interferes with other things like sunglasses, HMDs, safety goggles, big headphones; you can’t see when you first wake up and you have to take them off if you just lie down for a nap; they get knocked off when you put a jumper on or off. They’re just awful. I got laser eye treatment as soon as I was old enough and could get the loan. I loved it and I still love it (this was around fifteen years ago).
I remember things completely differently. Their were a ton of people, myself included, that mocked the watch when it was first released. Especially the $10,000 edition. Which IMO is still mockable today. It wasn’t that easy of a sell. People were asking who in their right mind would spend $300 on a watch that’ll be obsolete in a few years and what kind of apps could really be run on such a small screen? Plus the original third party app experience sucke
I finally bit the bullet when I realized how useful it is to get the notifications I want on the device and see whose calling / texting without having to take my phone out of my pocket. Then I saw the fitness tracking features and figured they could be useful, which they were. Add in cellular connectivity, Apple Pay and a much improved 3rd party app experience and now it’s a no brained but it certainly wasn’t initially.
To me AR is a much easier sell if they can produce headsets that don’t look stupid. Imagine walking a city street and knowing right where you’re going because Maps is showing you the direction to walk and where to turn. Imagine being in a grocery or retail store and looking at the UPC code to find out more information about the product your looking at. Imagine never forgetting someone’s name again because facial recognition software is running and it can pick them out if your photo library or whatever social media platform you can use.
If there’s one thing Apple can do it’s make a product aesthetically pleasing. Which is why I think they’ll figure it out.
A lot of people credit Apple with breakthroughs, and they’ve certainly had many, but more often than not they wait unit technology improves, let others be first to market, then they innovate and put their stamp on product and they do out in a way nobody has done it before. They didn’t invent an MP3 player but they did invent the iTunes Store, they didn’t invent the smart phone but they did invent multitouch, they didn’t invent the tablet but they did upscale the size of their multitouch iPhone to produce a tablet that could run apps from their iPhone App Store right out of the gate.
Apple has done well in wearables. I think they’ll do well in the AR space. They’ll release a product, figure out what works and what doesn’t and by the second or third hardware rev I think it’ll be a successful but niche product. Like the Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, etc. I’m thinking that just like with the watch the first generation will be pretty iPhone dependent and as technology improves they’ll uncouple them slowly over time.
Reading glasses may be in your immediate future. Presbyopia - inability to focus on close object starts around your age. And store readers are OK, but ones make by an optician are so much better.
As far as getting people to wearing glasses they have to get something out of it. Like, seeing a map guiding their walk through the streets of narrow city like Venice. Walking up to a painting and seeing a write up on it. Going to a store and looking a piece of tech, and having reviews ratings for it and similar items items are also in the store. Looking at tool and seeing brief instructions on how it is used. Playing baseball and detecting as soon as the ball is released whether the pitch coming at you is a slider or a breaking ball, if it is a strike or ball, and exactly where you should swing to make the best contact.
Are you willing to pay $1200-1400
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I pay $400 for 2 pair. Can’t imagine $700 pair. Your frames must be outrageous $
However, nobody thinks twice about the “hassle” of constantly grabbing our phones anytime we get up and move to a new location. As long as the utility is there, people will adjust their habits to accompany the devices.
You don't have to wear a phone on your face though. We use our hands to interact with things all the time. The face is a much more valuable real estate.
What you described seems more likely, but I think companion to Apple Watch, no phone required would be amazing. Processing on the watch since by then I imagine in a few years may be powerful enough to handle both. I mostly just use the watch today and if I could bring up a bigger display in glasses and if it has hand tracking for an AR keypad I’d never need the phone. I guess they don’t have much incentive for making the phone unnecessary though
Also being a wearer of glasses for 35+ years It is less of a hassle over what some think.
I went back and compared 2020 vs 2019 keynotes and you can see the glasses are different. A little more structure. Might have been a prototype with corrective lenses.
Of course Android will have to copy Apple as they always do. Perhaps Android will implement this not long after Apple, hopefully by 2013. Oh wait...
Yeah! That’s kinda what I was thinking in a way. “Those frames... that’s the frame! That “silver/gray” color is very iPhone-ish. That’s the new frame!” Or as you said, aN approximate prototype. I was watching that so so closely the entire time, just waiting.... for him to do that Christopher Reeve/Superman move, or a la Tony Stark in Civil War with his BARF prototype.
But alas, maybe next time, Gadget, next time.... >meow!<
