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Apple's Smart Glasses Could Become Its Next Health Device
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groove-agent
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I remember as a kid I was made fun of for wearing glasses being called "four eyes". There is a possible future where many people will voluntarily wear glasses. The irony.
Here's an idea: almost everyone will get presbyopia as they age, so why not have Apple Glasses which measure your prescription in real-time, and then alter it based on what you're looking at. If you can't see close up, it compensates. If you can't see far away, it compensates. All in real-time. Now THAT is a product NO ONE has yet.
PBG4 Dude
macrumors 603
That’d be sweet for sure. Would beat the “everything’s almost in focus” effect of progressive lens.
Let's see: 1. gimmick camera's projecting on a screen instead of pass-through AR 2. Very limited 110 degree FOV 3. paltry 90hz panels 4. a MASSIVE 650 grams weight 5. horrible eye box 6. underpowered
PBG4 Dude
macrumors 603
Until they get Siri AI even kind of working this is a useless endeavor. I've had it for 6 months on beta and it's getting worse. it literally can not make a phone call now. complete garbage. they claim it's a connection issue. It's not a connection problem on my end.
until Siri AI actually works... this project is dead in the water. So far I'm not impress with developer beta Srir AI. It can't even make a phone call most of the time.
Apple wants its future glasses and headsets to double as health and fitness devices, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports.
In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said the ambition traces back to Vision Pro's early development, when Apple weighed a number of ambitious health and fitness features for the headset. Among the ideas Apple explored was a Vision Pro-native take on Fitness+, designed to have wearers work out and follow along with classes while the headset's body-tracking sensors monitored their form. That project stalled and was ultimately scrapped, according to Gurman, both because of technical limitations and because the headset was simply too heavy to wear comfortably during a workout.
Apple has apparently carried that ambition into its smart glasses project once the company shifted its spatial computing focus away from Vision Pro. He draws a parallel to AirPods, which Apple transformed from simple earbuds into a functioning hearing aid system. Sensors embedded in the glasses, he suggested, could eventually let Apple capture movement data in a similar way, opening the door to fitness-tracking functionality later down the line.
Gurman noted that this won't be part of the glasses when they debut next year; he expects the health capabilities to arrive gradually, over a period of years rather than at launch.
He pointed out that the Vision Products Group, Apple's team responsible for glasses and future headsets, is looking to hire a "strategic product design leader" tasked with helping "define the future of health, well-being and fitness experiences across vision products." Whoever fills the role will need to "translate ambiguous opportunities at the intersection of spatial computing, wearables, consumer health and human behavior" into an actual product direction.
The listing also calls for a candidate with "experience developing and validating digital health or fitness products" and "familiarity with sensor-driven experiences." Put together, Gurman argues, the posting confirms Apple's intent to eventually place its glasses alongside AirPods and Apple Watch as health platforms.
Apple's first smart glasses are expected to launch late next year, following a potential unveiling at WWDC.
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PBG4 Dude
macrumors 603
Same here except waiting to see but not to use it.
I’ll never go back from contacts to glasses, no matter what the
PR for
AR or
VR on
MR promises.
A most legitimate use case. I wished technology advancements would prioritize the improvement of quality of life over just convenience and focus on assistive device applications.
Same here. I hate it when I have to do my exercising (running, biking, hiking) early in the morning in the summer wearing the backup glasses I have for my contacts. I have to give my eyes about 90 minutes before I can put them in in the morning.
That makes me wonder if there are would not be enough of them (people with significant vision impairments) to amount to a market for glasses limited to just the tech necessary for assistive functions. rymc02 in post #32 provides a link to “smart” glasses made for and sold to runners/bikers, in the $300-400 range.