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Apple Testing Augmented Reality 'Smart Glasses' That Connect to iPhone
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I guess apple spent some time at the google headquarters. Maybe they can go visit the Microsoft campus and take a look at the Surface Studio for next quarter 
The problem with Google Glass was precisely because they looked like tech. If AppleWatch is any indication, Apple will aim for a fashion accessory that also happens to contain tech. Regular looking glasses with a transparent screen film over the lenses would be all that's necessary. I think that a camera on glasses will gain more acceptance over time but the first version may be better off without it.
Hm, I haven't seen much exciting stuff come out of Apple's labs lately....
Touch bar and especially touch ID are derivative, and so is this project.
Project Titan seemed exciting, but it was apparently mismanaged and is now shuttered.
Hope I am wrong.
It's ok that Apple is exploring other options, but it's not ok for them to deviate from their roots. Ignoring the Mac is a huge mistake.
Typical Apple. Diss anything that the company does not sell... yet.
He was making a verbal pun. "iGlasses" == "Eye Glasses".
One of the very first eyeglass computer researchers, was a professor who was terrible at remembering names at the all important university research funding parties.
So he built himself a set of glasses where he'd snap a photo of each person as he met them, and enter their name via a hidden pocket keypad.
Then, when he ran into someone important later on, he'd trigger the glasses to show him the closest matches, so he could "remember" the person's name.
I can think of a million other uses for a camera as well.
The really stupid thing about the fear mongering that the anti-Google-Glass crowd did, was that it was actually pretty darn easy to tell when someone was videoing you with them. All the whining did was poison the well for any VR glasses that came after.
I disagree with Tim. I agree that AR will be more useful than VR, but VR will definitely be more interesting than AR for some major reason. And you know exactly what I'm talking about.
It will be called, 'Apple Vision'. The irony in that is that Apple has lost its own vision
I doubt this will be something that will be worn full time in public like Google Glass was. I'm sure Apple has something more innovative up their sleeve than a Google Glass/AR copycat device.
Plus, for anyone who doesn't currently wear glasses, it'd be a hard sell. Many people can get used to wearing a watch, but glasses are quite distracting in comparison to a watch (at least in my opinion).
Plus, for anyone who doesn't currently wear glasses, it'd be a hard sell. Many people can get used to wearing a watch, but glasses are quite distracting in comparison to a watch (at least in my opinion).
Apple Watch looks bulky and not nice. Android watches look much better.
Btw you need battery and a bunch of other stuff. If you just put a film on top it won't work. Tech is not there to be cost effective and that it would work well.
Not happening anytime soon (<5yr)..
People are getting their eyes lasered so they don't have to wear glasses. The only time this will be acceptable is if modern-day fashion moves to full futuristic bodysuits with visors. Till then Apple will heed the lesson learnt by Google.
Maybe if they were peering at my junk over the partition between the urinals, or holding them under the stall. Seriously, there is no threat here that a phone doesn't also present. As with any public place, people must be aware of their surroundings and people's behavior in them.
Apple including a camera in these glasses poses no more a threat than one in a watch, or an iPhone. All it takes is this one reminder to prove no camera is safe in anything where privacy is concerned:
SHOT ON AN iPHONE
http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/14/dani-mathers-gym-pic-photo-police-report/
If cameras in wearables are banned, then they have to be banned in everything. My gym bathroom has a sign posted that clearly reads: "no cell phone use", for that very reason.
I really hope that Apple can completely revolutionize the market if/when they come out with something. Personally I think glasses would be an odd choice for a product, seeing as how not everyone wears glasses. Watches, I can understand, tons of people wear watches, but glasses, not as many people wear those. It would take a lot of convincing for me to start wearing glasses since I never have in the past.
Although I would really enjoy having a well-built and stylish Apple glass, I fear it may come down to them producing many prototypes that never see the light of day and for some unknown reason, at least unknown to us, we will never see them produced and Apple will just dismiss it like they did with their car initiative.
I agree with this, it's nice that they can pursue these other avenues and maybe discover some magical convergence point in the future however pursuing these tangents and disregarding their core product seems to be a big miss in my opinion. Although these new MacBooks do contain some good tech, I think the main impetus behind the large orders is that it has been so long since they have been refreshed that we are willing to buy anything just so that we don't spend money on technology that's several years old.
What can they waste their time on next? How about a computer. Naaah.......who uses those old things?