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Apple's Smart Glasses With In-Lens Display May Feature Two Modes
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I guess one positive way to look at this is that being Apple they will also make this a fashion accessory so everyone around you knows you’re wearing Apple Glasses.
Will be a giveaway and I bet they will be banned in some venues.
Once you consider that Gurman is talking about something at least 2 years away and that only he is claiming as fact, you realize that it’s simply because he’s got to say several new things every week even if there’s no new information. “Making it up” doesn’t bother him or Bloomberg. In two years, he’ll have said so much more stuff that people will have forgotten about this. Just like so many have forgotten about their “big hack” made up story that literally no one has corroborated.
It doesn’t have to be true, it doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to get people to subscribe.
None of them give a damned about you or me or any kids or the environment or anything else.
It's "make number go up" ... that's all they care about, even everyone's beloved Apple.
Would like to see Apple release a revolutionary product like an AR monocle.
Agreed.
Also, while traveling recently, I visited several venues where photography and video recording were expressly prohibited. I complied, and not just because holding up my phone would have made it obvious that I was disregarding the rules. I would have done the same thing even if I had been able to capture images or videos without being caught.
But I’m concerned that smart glasses will make it too easy for people with no such compunction. I suspect we’ll see a lot of this online.
This rumor doesn't make sense. The display in the new Meta glasses is 600×600 pixels, less than twice as many as an Apple Watch Ultra. If Apple wants to make glasses that look reasonably like normal glasses, they aren't going to be able to make the display big enough that it's suitable for running "a full version of the visionOS operating system". And the glasses won't have eye tracking or 6-DOF spatial tracking.
They're unimaginative but a lot of people are huge fans of HomePods, AirTags, Vision Pro, Apple TV and other me too products that lock people into Apple. It's just really smart financially. I have to give Apple props to Apple TV+ and Music though, I'd say they're almost class leading services.
I know I'm a luddite, a Debby Downer, a hater, a naysayer, etc, but I really don't like the idea of smart glasses. It's already nearly impossible to have a conversation with somebody without them constantly picking up their phone. You can't do anything anymore without somebody picking up their phone to record you for "content". Now we have a more surreptitious method of constantly being recorded and an always on distraction. Neat.
It's too bad fully autonomous cars haven't panned out yet. We could use them when everybody is too distracted by their TikTok glasses to bother paying attention to the little things in life like driving. (And then blaming you because you should have KNOWN they were going to veer suddenly into your lane and hit you. Which has happened to me twice already with just phones.)
I do see a couple of theoretical benefits, but I believe the privacy and distraction implications far outweigh any actual potential such a product may have. We're just not psychologically mature enough to handle something like this. We can't even handle smartphones.
It's too bad fully autonomous cars haven't panned out yet. We could use them when everybody is too distracted by their TikTok glasses to bother paying attention to the little things in life like driving. (And then blaming you because you should have KNOWN they were going to veer suddenly into your lane and hit you. Which has happened to me twice already with just phones.
)I do see a couple of theoretical benefits, but I believe the privacy and distraction implications far outweigh any actual potential such a product may have. We're just not psychologically mature enough to handle something like this. We can't even handle smartphones.
2027 is going to be a swing and a miss.
Going by the MKBHD videos, meta went from a chonky proof of concept to production ready in 10 months.
2027 is another 15 months away, who knows what meta is going to have ready by that point. Yet apple are aiming to replicate what meta did back in 2022?
I know apple's mantra is "we don't aim to be first, we aim to be best" but they're not even aiming to be best.
Going by the MKBHD videos, meta went from a chonky proof of concept to production ready in 10 months.
2027 is another 15 months away, who knows what meta is going to have ready by that point. Yet apple are aiming to replicate what meta did back in 2022?
I know apple's mantra is "we don't aim to be first, we aim to be best" but they're not even aiming to be best.
Rest assured, you're not alone.
I honestly feel like the invasion of tech is something not considered and fought back against nearly enough.
It will be difficult to see how Apple can compete with Meta on price. Apple have to make a decent profit whereas Meta sell at a loss and then make that back exploiting your personal data.
Apple already have the perfect product to compete with Meta’s smart glasses. It has its own small display, market leading health tracking features, can be used independently of a phone and lives on your wrist requiring only one peripheral. It can play your music and doesn’t make people around you feel
Uncomfortable. You can also buy it for less than $300.
Apple already have the perfect product to compete with Meta’s smart glasses. It has its own small display, market leading health tracking features, can be used independently of a phone and lives on your wrist requiring only one peripheral. It can play your music and doesn’t make people around you feel
Uncomfortable. You can also buy it for less than $300.
The camera on the glasses are not well hidden so it’s not like a venue would not be able to block the glasses or not know that you’re wearing a pair, especially if you have security at the door and are strict about blocking pictures or videos. There are plenty of glasses out there already that look similar.
No one‘s forcing you or anyone to wear any type of tech. It’s a choice. Not to mention you would have to be able to afford it.
@Kidseeghost & @Downundermac
Really enjoying both of your contributions here.
For how much Apple likes to discuss wellness, mental health, fitness ...
It'd sure be nice if they made some products with those values truly front and center in the design decisions.
More than just "better focus modes" or "parental controls".
This is where their financial obsession has created a massive conflict of interest.
Really enjoying both of your contributions here.
For how much Apple likes to discuss wellness, mental health, fitness ...
It'd sure be nice if they made some products with those values truly front and center in the design decisions.
More than just "better focus modes" or "parental controls".
This is where their financial obsession has created a massive conflict of interest.
This is meta's business model, especially in this space.
It's actually mind blowing how much money meta have lost on smart glasses.
If this article is to be believed; they made $370M in sales in Q2 but the division lost 4.5B. Yet they seem ok with it; so they're definitely making money elsewhere and/or playing the very long game.
But this also proposes a bigger issue for apple. Apple, famously are privacy focused (whether or not, that's debateable), at the same they're also profit margin driven, those two things are in conflict.
Developing these sorts of products is an expensive endeavour. And making them is also expensive; yet the public is accustomed to the $250 pricepoint that meta sell their (non AR enabled) smartglasses for; the AR enabled ones are dropping in at $700 (and probably will drop as time goes by). For apple to cover their production costs, they'll either need to sell them at a hefty premium, or subsidise them through other means (like data harvesting).
If apple sells non-ar models for ~1k then it's going to be dead in the water
Nor was that my point. Dislike my posts T, but at least make sure you capture the reason before assuming otherwise
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