Because Apple stores aren’t overcrowded and hectic enough without people wondering round staring through their phones. Although to be honest, I don’t many would bother anyway.
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The best use case for Apple AR/VR headset would be for a design company. If I had a company that could redesign a room in my house virtually and let me view it real-time in my house before agreeing to the design, that would be awesome. Same for landscaping. I’m not good at looking at a little sample tile and visualizing it in my mind how it would look in my entire house.
Yea that could be cool to put the items in your cart and pay. Like how he did the files on Disclosure
I am really looking forward to an AR/VR future. Pick up a travel brochure and see a video walk through of the hotel rooms, read a technical article, blink twice, gaze detected and an expert provides further explanation with video if required, full integration with ChatGPT like software that provides information that combines what one is looking at with a question about it to provide both text, audio, and video information, a full movie screen floating in the air while seated in an airplane, walking directions with arrows that help one find the next presentation at a large conference or convention center, working with a developmentally challenged child one-to-one being guided by expert real-time AI advice based on visual and auditory data, all the home fixit videos easily referenced right in front of you, hands free, and on and on. This is going to be as life changing as was the iPhone. It will be a little clunky to start, the mixed reality headset is the first step, Apple Glasses will follow, and the world will change.
I wonder if this stuff will become so realistic that people won't want to do the real thing, and then they will charge for VR vacations
there was no app store when the iphone came out and the killer app was slowly accessing the internet.
Apple watch took years to be adopted without any real killer apps at launch.
This headset is clearly not for average consumers, but is a starting point of a long journey.
The headset isn't essential for AR at all. It will enhance experiences but certainly isn't required.
However, if you don't make anything, nothing will develop.......
Apple watch took years to be adopted without any real killer apps at launch.
This headset is clearly not for average consumers, but is a starting point of a long journey.
The headset isn't essential for AR at all. It will enhance experiences but certainly isn't required.
However, if you don't make anything, nothing will develop.......
Yea I remember being so excited about having somewhat of real websites and no more garbage Media Net
Apple did not boycott Russia in any way, they were demanded to stop activities there by (inter)national orders, that's totally different. Apple would love pull the pants down for Russia again, just like they pull down for china.
Apple's greed is far above any ethical values.
I had to laugh. You need to get to know some women.
I'm pretty sure my wife would do that too if we had the ability, especially with shoes.
imagine all the people trying to track which Rick Owens season David Rose wears on Schitts Creak
can’t wait to drop thousands of dollars in a store so i can walk into that same store and see how many more thousands of dollars i can drop all without having to ever look at a piece of paper!
For many AR applications, now and in the future, glasses/headset will be essential.
Went to a Microsoft Store in Seattle a couple years back. They have AR for surgeons and the medical field. However, in addition to that niche, the stuff will set you back 5 to 6 figures, so the prices and usages are definitely not for consumers.
So much for “industrial strength applications” and “surgery”.
Even HoloLens which has developed a headset especially for the military is being blocked.
These kind of discomfort and software failure problems will probably be permanent until something very different and much lighter comes along. I don’t see that happening before 2030.
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Even HoloLens which has developed a headset especially for the military is being blocked.
These kind of discomfort and software failure problems will probably be permanent until something very different and much lighter comes along. I don’t see that happening before 2030.
Congress blocks purchase of more Microsoft combat goggles
The US Congress opted not to approve the purchase of more Microsoft combat goggles for the US Army. Instead, it’s allocating funds for Microsoft to develop an updated version.
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This, I feel, is what will definitely be launched with the AR glasses, and each specific business’ App Clip data will be what can automatically download when walking into a specific retail location.
Thanks for sharing clips, watched them. What a contrast: Looking out the window, view of the forest, snow on the ground, quiet, warm late afternoon light, no desire for VR … AR, just for reading MR over real coffee …
Seems like an overly complicated replacement for scanning QR codes to pull up a webpage.
So THIS is the source behind the M2 MacBook Pro delays! 
As far as the other iDevices, well, I'm going to the Apple store to touch and hold a NEW device, not the one I already own! 😆
As far as the Macs are concerned, it'd be wayyyyy less trouble to just look on the screen of the Mac itself, where all of this information is displayed already. Those of you who have looked at Macs in-store will know what I'm talking about.
As far as the other iDevices, well, I'm going to the Apple store to touch and hold a NEW device, not the one I already own! 😆
I have this opinion about VR glasses.....They look stupid. But the people saying I am silly for making such comments don't understand the use of these. Years ago when this started 5 years ago, there was a boom in sales of VR glasses here in japan. Why because 18 years and older men were bought for porn. Oh, yea gaming is a thing, yes, but the outreach is that of the adult industry.
Wonder what the benefit will be. Anyway will be interesting to try it out.
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The reason concept videos like that are a fail and unrealistic:
1 Too much graphical AR overlays would obscure a user’s view of pedestrians and traffic.
2 Too many ads and companies competing for AR space in a user’s view would ruin the interface and usability.
3 Headsets have reduced field of view so they are not suitable for safe walking, riding a bike, driving a car and crossing the streets.
4 People in general wouldn’t wear this in public. These are much larger, distracting and target for theft than sunglasses.
5 We still don’t know how weather proof they can make these things and strong sunlight entering the view will probably make the AR overlays almost disappear.
And the contact lens AR concept videos will never be a thing. We can’t make physics violating transparent electronics directly on the eye. It would never get certification of safety approval if it was even physically possible to make because the risk of mechanical and electronic failure would cause eye injury.