ML is trained via whatever you supply.
Face detection in photos (which has been a thing for, what, a decade?) isn't trained via text from the Internet but via photos. This wouldn't be any different, and it isn't "next level".
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Apple Vision Pro 'Visual Search' Feature Can Identify Items, Copy Printed Text, Translate and More
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ML is trained via whatever you supply.
Face detection in photos (which has been a thing for, what, a decade?) isn't trained via text from the Internet but via photos. This wouldn't be any different, and it isn't "next level".
Not me. I've always thought this was a gimmick, and AR/VR headsets have not sold very well over the years. Now I think it is an extremely overpriced gimmick. But I get what you are saying!
It's absolutely unbelievable that tech theft still happens, they have the serial No. of every devise stolen, why is the devise still allowed to be used? 😡
Spot-on.
Having a healthy and uncalcified imagination is frowned upon here.
Much easier to cast one's self as a rebel and come up with reasons why it will flop. Just like most other past Apple products in development.
First of all... there is a dial which controls the opacity of your real world. If the room you are in is messy, you can see less of it.
From my experience on MacRumors, being optimistic about new technology makes you more of a rebel. 😀
For sure, you will blend right in. No-one will notice you're not a native, or anything else unusual about you.
Now, that's a use case. Expecting to see ad featuring person on public transit figuring out when to alight.
My reasons for getting the Vision Pro are starting to increase. Originally I was gonna wait for the consumer model, but now seeing more about the headset, I'm honestly thinking of picking it up in January.
Don’t forget the eerie video image of the users face shown in glorious 2d on the front of the visor, for the full “uncanny valley“ effect…
Yes, you’ll get really far while traveling with that 2 hour battery life.
Trouble is, those two positions are not mutually exclusive.
I‘m not skeptical that Apple can blow our socks off with a best-of-breed AR/VR experience.
The question is whether, once the novelty has worn off, people will want to spend their working day wearing $3000 ski goggles that need a new battery pack every couple of hours. Also how many people will have problems with eyesight, migraines, fits etc. - quite aside from people already recognised as having restricted vision (I would be staggered if Apple don’t have an accessibility guide somewhere in the developer materials for this, but it’s already easier said than done to do a good job of accessibility with a screen and keyboard). Issues like that (and supplying expensive Zeiss prescription lens inserts to those who need them) will be very important if (as implied) they want Vision to find roles in business and industry.
Thing is, until these things are fit to wear for 10 hours straight, what do they actually add? If you want to translate a Japanese sign you can already point your phone at it, without walking around Tokyo dressed as a Power Ranger. If its a choice between getting out the goggles, strapping them on, starting them up and hoping the battery is OK vs just pulling out a phone, I’ll take the phone.
When Jobs announced the iPhone I remember thinking, gosh, yes, that looks far more useful and practical in every way than my current Windows Mobile pocket brick, provided the onscreen keyboard is usable (30s of hands-on proved that). With the iGlasses - I’m thinking “that would be great to play with for half an hour - and then put back into the cupboard until I fancy a game of immersive Minecraft*”
(* ssssssssss….. )
you can do this stuff with your phone.
This just too nerdy.
I guess tho that the famous will love it. They could go walk around anonymously with this.
Tim Cook could walk into apple stores undetected. And monitor the operations.
This just too nerdy.
I guess tho that the famous will love it. They could go walk around anonymously with this.
Tim Cook could walk into apple stores undetected. And monitor the operations.
Great post. To anyone out there planning on strapping this device on their face for 8-10 hours a day for work (possibly more)... I say good luck to you. Your eyes will eventually suffer from it, I can promise you that. Spare me the "I will take breaks like I do now" routine. A ten minute break every so often will do nothing for your vision. Between strapping this thing on my head for 8+ hours a day to have virtual office for work over using the hardware I have now and having nothing on my face and head, I'll take the physical hardware any day. Or having this thing strapped on my head to watch the super bowl in AR/VR land or watching movies by myself over interacting with my friends and family while watching either with them, I will choose live interaction. It's not about imagination. It's about this device being stupid and pointless beyond the initial wow factor, for the vast majority of people anyway.
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