I doubt Apple would plan meetings around CES. If they want to meet with a company, the company would host them or put people on a plane to Curpertino.
If it has numerous real world uses, Apple should try to get them to the forefront. Everything debuted thus far has been less than spectacular. Heck, I'd even settle for something not yawn inducing. Everyone has differing opinions, but I put AR and VR in the same category with 3D TV and Curved TV... things quickly forgotten by the vast majority of the public. Saying AR is going to be the future won't make it so. Compelling products and services might. To date, ain't nuttin' compelling about AR. Imo, of course.
See, people keep saying this. Honestly, it sounds like people just parroting back what Apple has said. I'm not accusing you of doing that, I'm just saying in general. No one ever points to anything specific and says "This! This is an interesting application." It's always spoken about in the abstract. To date, I've seen nothing beyond the abstract to convince me AR has a future any brighter than VR. Perhaps you have.
Apple breeding the next generation of glassholes
You just helped me win a bet. I bet another forum member that the two things mentioned regarding AR would be the IKEA app and the Warby Parker app. Pokemon Go was the 3rd runner up choice. I don't say that to poke fun at your anecdotes. I say it as testimony of there really ain't nothing going on with AR in the consumer space.My wife ordered a pair of glasses online using an App that measured her face and allowed her to choose frames that would fit. And when they arrived, guess what? They fit perfectly.
I’ve fooled around with the IKEA App, and though it’s prety basic right now the potential is huge. I predict you’ll be able to buy shoes, clothes, furniture/appliances
I mentioned earlier that I could see the possibilities of AR/mixed reality in commercial/industrial applications, which is what you're describing. So on that we agree. I'm guessing our opinions differ when it comes to the consumer market.A few years ago I saw a very early AR concept for teaching surgery to medical students. It involved more than just visual AR, but haptic interfaces that included scalpels and other tools a surgeon would use. When the haptic scalpel was used to create an incision in an AR body it would generate force feedback to the student. Try to cut into tendons, bones, etc. within the AR model and the scalpel becomes more and more difficult to push, just as it would in the real world. The end goal is to be able to provide an environment that's realistic when teaching surgery without the constant need for medical cadavers, etc. Given what I saw of that demonstration I'm 100% convinced we'll eventually see the ability of medical students, and even experienced surgeons, using AR to learn new surgical techniques without the need for cadavers, etc.
Except VR requires a ridiculous amount of processing power to do properly (esp if you want to minimize vertigo). This is why VR on mobile is an utter joke.
This ties you to a location and limits your mobility (due to needing to be beside the hardware doing the heavy lifting). And even then some people still suffer various issues when wearing VR goggles (just like some people can’t watch 3D movies for an extended period of time).
AR is only immature because it’s fairly new. VR had been around for 25+ years and it STILL hasn’t really taken off (outside of niche markets).
No kidding.It's funny to think Apple or any big player would wait for CES to do this. If they're interested in a tech, they're going to meet with who they need to when they want to. They're not sitting around waiting for CES to come around once a year to do so.
I see the potential for AR, but we are pretty far off I believe. Probably 5 years before anything I'd be interested in,.
I fully expect AR contacts will be a thing, sometime in the next 20 years.With Apple's budget, I expect AR contacts. Call it the iSee or something.
I think in a sense consumers can't picture this far ahead of where augmented reality will lead and what uses how they would apply it in their daily lives. Someone else gave the example of how AR could be beneficial for a medical student possibly Augmented reality when practing or training for open surgeries, which is an interesting idea in itself. I'm sure this will be a very complete niche category, but nonetheless, I think I will have it uses once this technology continues to develop.
AR has numerous real-world uses. VR doesn’t. Which is why VR will go nowhere and AR will become popular.
BTW, it’s not just Apple. Google is also heavily promoting AR. They’re just way behind Apple at this point.
People have called me crazy in various forums for saying the same thing. Maybe I'll be eating my words some day, but I still contest that VR / AR won't fully become fully mainstream until they're not some clunky piece of hardware you strap to your face. Google is pretty on-par with Apple in R&D spend and look how well Google Glass turned out....WHAT? People who don't wear glasses, don't want to wear glasses all the time?! I thought nothing was cooler than having to wear glasses?!
Wasn’t Google Glass, AR? If so, I’d think they’d be pretty far along by now.
CES is where small companies that otherwise go unnoticed go to get attention.It's funny to think Apple or any big player would wait for CES to do this. If they're interested in a tech, they're going to meet with who they need to when they want to. They're not sitting around waiting for CES to come around once a year to do so.
Plenty of these suppliers are foreign, and in the US on travel visas. You make an informal meeting at CES, and work out the details later.I doubt Apple would plan meetings around CES. If they want to meet with a company, the company would host them or put people on a plane to Curpertino.
If it has numerous real world uses, Apple should try to get them to the forefront. Everything debuted thus far has been less than spectacular. Heck, I'd even settle for something not yawn inducing. Everyone has differing opinions, but I put AR and VR in the same category with 3D TV and Curved TV... things quickly forgotten by the vast majority of the public. Saying AR is going to be the future won't make it so. Compelling products and services might. To date, ain't nuttin' compelling about AR. Imo, of course.
With Apple's budget, I expect AR contacts. Call it the iSee or something.
AR will eventually replace your phone. It’s like saying the phone won’t replace the computer, when in reality - it did.
You could be 100% right... at some point in the more distant future. You're nowhere close to being right at this point in time or in the very near future. I mean we can "cloud talk" all sorts of future innovations.AR will eventually replace your phone. It’s like saying the phone won’t replace the computer, when in reality - it did.
We only disagree on the time frame. I see it within 5 years.You could be 100% right... at some point in the more distant future. You're nowhere close to being right at this point in time or in the very near future. I mean we can "cloud talk" all sorts of future innovations.