I’m very apprehensive about smartglasses in general, but if anyone can pull it off it’s Apple, where functional design is at the heart of the product. This is why they own the wearables market.
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That’s the biggest point to solve, and it won’t be easy (maybe for some use cases where it’s useful, just as you don’t carry your iPad everywhere) but the potential is so high that, if well executed, will be worth it.
Night vision, finding your friends in a crowd, realistic object placing and measuring in your home, visual filters when looking at products in a store... it’s all sci-fi but technically feasible, “only” a good implementation is needed.
I don't think that these glasses would be used to record video, more limited to a text and vector graphics overlay. Should be interesting.
I don't see Apple having ANY better success with their efforts than Google did with their Glasshole product !
Especially coming from a Company like Apple that promotes Privacy !
Especially coming from a Company like Apple that promotes Privacy !
I can't wait to have to charge the things I put over my eyes in addition to the things I put in my ears, on my wrist, in my pocket and carry in my backpack.
Google eventually abandons most projects or ideas.
I wonder what the killer feature will be to win people over. Can’t imagine rolling with these and trusting Siri as my main sidekick. She never understands my accent!
This same argument was made about the Apple Watch and I fell for it a bit, too at the beginning. I didn't need a watch when I had a phone to tell me the time. Who needs glasses when their vision is fine, right? The entire point is that the device brings a vast amount of new capability and function to the format. You seem to be understating the expected functions.
I loved Google Glass, and I despise Google and Android. I would love to see a heads up display device from Apple. Typically, it was the poor people who couldn't afford Glass, and therefore never owned it, who complained about it or trashed it in the comment sections online.
Siri is going to have to get a lot smarter before this will be ready for the mass market.
A watch is a bit more discreet than glasses. People are more willing to wear a cool new piece of tech on their wrist, than their face.
I don’t think the functions will outweigh the stigma of them being glasses.
I am very ready for this.
As far as the siri controls, I imagine that all this means is that, as a stand-alone product, that it will be capably controlled by siri alone for those not in the apple ecosystem. This is the perfect device to be paired with an apple watch IMO. I imagine it will really shine if you have a watch, or also an iPhone, to assist in navigation.
As far as the siri controls, I imagine that all this means is that, as a stand-alone product, that it will be capably controlled by siri alone for those not in the apple ecosystem. This is the perfect device to be paired with an apple watch IMO. I imagine it will really shine if you have a watch, or also an iPhone, to assist in navigation.
They have a lot riding on this, particularly as Apple Glasses would be the first Apple product in almost 30 years that Ive didn’t have a hand in designing.
That would also lend a special cachet to Apple Glasses, important for eyewear. No one better than Ive to entrust and bestow.
Definitely, completely agree....I think it will be down the road a while, but I won't doubt that something like will happen in the future. And it will need to be some kind of tech where it is either a heads up display, or some form of film coating on the back of the glass, as you still need to see through them...but wait there's more.....they could need to be prescription
That sounds far too pragmatic for the grouchy section of this website.
Ah, but remember the watch now updates at 1/60th FPS, not 90. Who's to say that you couldn't save battery/processor power by selectively updating certain segments of the screen at high FPS while slowing others? Using directions as a use-case: as I walk I might not need a go-straight arrow to change to turn-left until 50 feet before the corner, at which point it could update to highlight urgency. That's three frames over what could be seconds or minutes. If it's a follow-the-bouncing ball situation obviously that requires higher update rate on the screen. Polling rate for your location and GPS could be handled by your watch or your phone.
Thinking out loud, naturally. We don't know their intended use-case so who knows what adaptations are necessary. Up to this point we speculate and that's why people are inevitably disappointed. — Remember when the Segway was launched (then called by it's codename "Ginger") it was meant to be "like slipping on a pair of magic sneakers," and "will revolutionise urban transportation and design, reduce the west's overdependence on Middle East oil and have a more profound impact on humankind than the development of the personal computer." They said it was like flying. Instead it was derided and banned from sidewalks everywhere.
We don't know what glasses will be until it's real.
Their development tactic is pretty much "let's see which s*** sticks to the wall"