If they can make them look like Ray-Bans or some other classic, timeless design, fine. Anything else, no thanks.
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Apple Testing Augmented Reality 'Smart Glasses' That Connect to iPhone
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[doublepost=1479183842][/doublepost]Virtual reality will be larger than augmented reality. People need an escape from this horrible reality, they don't need metrics confirming how miserable they truly are.
As part of its effort to expand further into wearable devices, Apple is working on a set of smart glasses, reports Bloomberg. Citing sources familiar with Apple's plans, the site says the smart glasses would connect wirelessly to the iPhone, much like the Apple Watch, and would display "images and other information" to the wearer.
Apple has contacted potential suppliers about its glasses project and has ordered "small quantities" of near-eye displays, suggesting the project is in the exploratory prototyping phase of development. If work on the glasses progresses, they could be released in 2018.
Apple's glasses sound similar to Google Glass, the head-mounted display that Google first introduced in 2013. Google Glass used augmented reality and voice commands to allow users to do things like check the weather, make phone calls, and capture photographs. Apple's product could be similar in functionality.Google Glass was highly criticized because of privacy concerns, and as a result, it never really caught on with consumers. Google eventually stopped developing Google Glass in January of 2015.
Google Glass
It is not clear how Apple would overcome the privacy and safety issues that Google faced, nor if the project will progress, but Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed Apple's deep interest in augmented reality multiple times over the last few months, suggesting something big is in the works. "AR can be really great," he said in July. "We have been and continue to invest a lot in this. We're high on AR in the long run."
Past rumors have also indicated Apple is exploring a number of virtual and augmented reality projects, including a full VR headset. Apple has a full team dedicated to AR and VR research and how the technologies can be incorporated into future Apple products. Cook recently said that he believes augmented reality would be more useful and interesting to people than virtual reality.
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I would like Apple to develop an Amazon Echo/Google Home competitor. Google Glass failed for a reason
Google Home
Where do I sign?
"Google Glass failed for a reason"
#CreepyForFemales
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I think it would be a mistake to pour heavy resources into the Mac. Just look at PC/Mac sales over the past 4 to 5 years and it doesn't make any business sense. It's all about smartphones and tablets and Apple should try to sunset the Mac as quickly as possible by cannibalizing it with the iPad. The hardware is almost there but the software needs to be beefed up. If they do it right, the iPad can be better than the Mac ever was as a content creation tool. It won't be for everyone, but it'll address a far larger market, just like every previous computing paradigm shift.
No, people like to interact with the world around them.
Just see how popular social networks are. If you like, you can view it as augmented reality. You can keep track of hundreds of people, have a library of your photos, document what you have done, see what others are up to, you can create events or follow topics. This would be much harder without computer assistance.
Same will be true with augmented reality glasses, but they will help you in your everyday life.
If you leave home without the wallet, you will get a notification. You will not need to remember PIN number because it will popup when you see the keypad. When you are at a bus station, you will see how many minute you need to wait. You will be able to select music by a few hand gestures. You will see direction when you drive. You will see your heart rate and average speed when your run. If you look at a product in a store or a menu at a restaurant you will see user ratings. When you eat, it will approximate the number of calories on your plate. It will calculate tip or break out subtotals if you want to split a tab etc etc. etc. I could go on for hours.
This will change everything. People will wonder how they could ever have lived without them.
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No, Apple should not waste engineering resources copying inferior products.
it's much better to use to the smart phone or iGlasses which you carry with you all the time.
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the next smart move, I can already hear Jony proclaim "Luxottica is f****d"
seeing the Apple watch was such a runaway success
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/26/technology/smartwatch-sales-apple/
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How'd that work out for "The Lawnmower Man".
Too much tech is part of this horrible reality. Go for a walk in the woods. It's free and is nature's true reality.
I often forget my wallet now, but my
watch 'saves the day'apple should be pushing apple pay more instead of silly, creepy take photos / videos glasses that freek everyone out.
I find this very exciting. AR is going to be a huge technology. Imagine the ability to dive your car with a HUD in your glasses connected to the car's sensors. You would be able to detect a car to your left or right without turning your head, or detect a child about to step out in front of you that was hidden by another car.
The best thing about Apple doing this, is that they have the design skills to make it stylish and acceptable to customers.
The best thing about Apple doing this, is that they have the design skills to make it stylish and acceptable to customers.
I have visited the future.....
Version 1 is a $1000+ useless iPhone accessory. Of course except a new standard of IO to charge it. There is all sorts of "fashioned frames", costing hundreds, but luckily eBay will sell knock offs for $5. Some brands will have a applet gimmick that you dont get on the base model. Siri will default to the phone for pretty much anything other than weather and setting an alarm. The AR is a poorly implemented gimmick (That only fully works in SF). How do I know this?
I lied I didnt go to the future, just plotting the current trend of apples current trend of overpriced mediocracy.
Version 1 is a $1000+ useless iPhone accessory. Of course except a new standard of IO to charge it. There is all sorts of "fashioned frames", costing hundreds, but luckily eBay will sell knock offs for $5. Some brands will have a applet gimmick that you dont get on the base model. Siri will default to the phone for pretty much anything other than weather and setting an alarm. The AR is a poorly implemented gimmick (That only fully works in SF). How do I know this?
I lied I didnt go to the future, just plotting the current trend of apples current trend of overpriced mediocracy.
Have you used an Apple Watch ? It's an iPhone accessory...it's not replacing the iPhone . The iPhone will always be the main unit , the others accessories
Hmm. Makes me wonder if Apple will rebrand the iPhone as Apple Phone for its 10th anniversary.
I often forget my wallet now, but my
apple should be pushing apple pay more instead of silly, creepy take photos / videos glasses that freek everyone out.
Too late:
SHOT ON AN iPHONE
http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/14/dani-mathers-gym-pic-photo-police-report/
The world has left you behind. You're being photographed everyday all the time without knowing it. You should probably avoid going outside into public spaces at all. Millineals embrace being photographed. Privacy is one thing, but no one can reasonably have the expectaction of privacy in public, and the next generation is being raised with this sensibility. There's nothing creepy about a camera in public to them.
New products!! perhaps apple should get their quality right first on existing products
(2nd iPhone cable and colleagues have same problem).
Cost iPhone 6 £699.00 25 months ago shame on you apple I can get a knock off cable 'braided' for a fraction of the cost of a 'genuine' flawed apple cable.
(2nd iPhone cable and colleagues have same problem).
Cost iPhone 6 £699.00 25 months ago shame on you apple I can get a knock off cable 'braided' for a fraction of the cost of a 'genuine' flawed apple cable.
Are you patronising in real life or only when hiding in front of a computer screen?
Get some sleep, you have school in the morning.
To repeat myself:
"So is you stood in a crowded city centre on a Saturday afternoon and everytime a girl went by you held up and moved your iPhone towards her for all to see, you dont think people would find that a tad disturbing?"
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Lots of folks here are getting excited and/or outraged that Apple is making this as an imminent next product and it'll be horrible, plus they're doing this instead of Macs. Except Apple has all sorts of research projects going on. They probably have a refrigi-toaster in the labs. That doesn't mean they'll ever release it. Someone finds out "Apple is working on a refrigi-toaster", and people equate "is working on" with "definitely the next big product", either because they don't understand how Apple does things, or they're trying to get page views or investor attention or maybe just notoriety. So, are they working on smart glasses? Sure, probably, along with a lot of other research projects. Are Apple Stores going to be turning into Lenscrafters in six months? Highly unlikely.
That said, yeah, I'm sure they're working on more new Macs, but they've done a big disservice to their Mac customers over the last couple years, probably waiting for the conditions to be "just right" (available CPUs and chipsets and such), but while they were waiting for perfect, they hurt their loyal customers. They really ought to have released decent improvements over the past few years, even if it meant making machines that weren't quite everything Apple wanted. The new MacBook Pros look good, but could have been better, and I don't think anybody outside of Apple had "thinner" anywhere on their top ten list of desired improvements (I would have much preferred to spend those 3mm on keeping the older keyboard).
That said, yeah, I'm sure they're working on more new Macs, but they've done a big disservice to their Mac customers over the last couple years, probably waiting for the conditions to be "just right" (available CPUs and chipsets and such), but while they were waiting for perfect, they hurt their loyal customers. They really ought to have released decent improvements over the past few years, even if it meant making machines that weren't quite everything Apple wanted. The new MacBook Pros look good, but could have been better, and I don't think anybody outside of Apple had "thinner" anywhere on their top ten list of desired improvements (I would have much preferred to spend those 3mm on keeping the older keyboard).