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Apple Said to Release AR Headset With 3D Scanning in 2022, Followed by Sleeker Glasses in 2023
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I can show you 1000 comments just like this one from this very forum regarding the 2007 iphone release. But I guess only time will tell
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Watch the short video I posted above your comment. Here it is again:
HYPER-REALITY
Hint: this could be one of those things that as a society we will probably regret ever inventing
....because VR and "google glass" from a few years ago were such raving successes.....
Useless tech which interrupts and imposes on your life IMHO.
Useless tech which interrupts and imposes on your life IMHO.
So do people who get paid to make these guesses get fired if they get it wrong, or are their jobs protected like a weather person?
Hey Siri. Remind me to come back to this comment in a couple years and see how it ages
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omg that is way too much augmented reality in my reality. My eyeballs. My poor poor eyeballs
I love this video. A simplified version should be what we will get with Apple. If these glasses are as customisable as the Apple Watch is then it will be huge. Might even kill part of their own watch market with this product.
I already wear glasses, so if Apple makes glasses that handle my prescription, last all day, and don‘t look dumb, i’d drop my Apple Watch in an instant.
No please! We don’t want this. I’m not alone in feeling creeped out at the possibility that the clunky-glasses-wearing person I’m talking to may be surreptitiously recording me for future fun.
Having said that, if any company could pull this off it’d be Apple. Glasses are a more intimate fashion choice that even a watch, and AW dominates the wearables market at least in part because Apple cared about customization (color, materials, bands, faces, etc.). Apple is the only major tech company with real bona fides in the design & fashion world, not just gadgets.
Having said that, if any company could pull this off it’d be Apple. Glasses are a more intimate fashion choice that even a watch, and AW dominates the wearables market at least in part because Apple cared about customization (color, materials, bands, faces, etc.). Apple is the only major tech company with real bona fides in the design & fashion world, not just gadgets.
Apple executives would marvel at your uncanny ability to bring up ideas they never fathomed.
They can’t even come up with plausible lies. 1,000 people in a meeting discussing a top secret project?! That’s the most un-Apple thing imaginable. This is a company that is obsessed with security and works in very small teams, compartmentalizing information.
Except one day they decided to have an unnecessarily large confab just because? Laughable.
Except one day they decided to have an unnecessarily large confab just because? Laughable.
Sounds....odd. Nice if they've got multiple AR lines of research and dev going...they have a history of investigating things and putting them on the shelf if they don't measure up...then coming back to it when the tech is ready.
No, Google has rev'd Google Glass three times updating specs on it - each time. They only sell it in the corporate sphere though after the initial public backlash.
No, Google has rev'd Google Glass three times updating specs on it - each time. They only sell it in the corporate sphere though after the initial public backlash.
Let's hope it can be groundbreaking but most user already knew apple under the leadership of Tim cook no longer take intuitive design as an important part of delivering great product.
What makes you think the technology isn't there yet? As Google showed, AR style glasses were already possible, what, 6 years ago? The biggest mistake Google made - other than the social mistake of video recording people - was that they tried to do too much in the glasses themselves. They essentially tried to put an entire computer in the temples of glasses. That's why, even with the limited AR functionality it had, the glasses ran out of juice after just a couple hours. If I'm right, Apple's glasses will do little more than project information and gather sensor data. The processing of the sensor data and the info to be projected will be done on the iPhone. ARKit-based applications will probably be able to run unchanged too. Offloading the CPU intensive tasks to the phone will allow the glasses to be sleek and still last all day.
All the technologies for this already exist. Most are already in Apple'so there devices (e.g. sensors in current iPhones, H1 chip for communication is in AirPod Pros, ARKit for app development).
I don't think I"m ready to believe that Apple would "leak" its intentions to an audience of almost 1000 employees. Apple has been leaking information more as the company's gotten bigger, but I doubt they would intentionally divulge this level of detail to that many people.
1000 people in attendance? With the iPhone < 300 people knew about portions of the project before Apple announced it, now > 1000 people know about it YEARS in advance? Besides, Apple never communicates launch dates internally unless they really have to.
So, one step closer to being completely and utterly detached from the real (natural, living, breathing) world. Oh joy, I can't wait /s
