Very nice to hear about it. Waiting for Samsung's XR/AR device. Apple should release AR glasses as early as possible.
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Google Shows Off Android XR Smart Glasses With In-Lens Display
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This is absolute Garbage. Doesn’t Google remember Google Glasses? They abandoned that platform
Google will suffer the same problem with these glasses that it did with it's first foray into smart glasses, the Google Glass and that is privacy issues. Even when in public people have an expectation of privacy but that will all be gone with Googles next version of smart glasses because the software will constantly be scanning/surveying the area around the wearer, giving them updates and news on what they are seeing. I remember when Google Glass came out there were news articles of shops and businesses telling the wearer to remove the glasses because the establishment knew what the glasses were and what they could do.
Googles XR glasses may have good intentions but unfortunately there is always a section of society who ignore good intentions and will use the glasses for nefarious reasons and this is what will kill off Google's XR glasses.
Googles XR glasses may have good intentions but unfortunately there is always a section of society who ignore good intentions and will use the glasses for nefarious reasons and this is what will kill off Google's XR glasses.
Craaaaazy times we live in where MacRumors reports on competitors advancements in technology as Apple stays stale.
I always find it hilarious when this is someones argument......if you thing Google is the only one doing it....you're sadly mistaken.
Nobody needs this, people are not clamoring for this, and the number of the public who would actually buy this is tiny. It won’t be popular. It won’t sell well. It will be very expensive. Yet these companies are all competing to sell tech junk. Tech for tech’s sake.
Sadly, in many states in the US anyway, you don't need other people's consent to record them on audio/video. This is something that needs to change ASAP!
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Nah.
Apple should be pouring way more resource into a competitor product to the Meta Ray Bans than the Vision Pro.
Meta sold 1 millon units of the Ray Bans last year, those are already similar numbers to the quest in the last few year.
Its a category that is start is starting to pick up steam and stands a lot more chance of mainstream adoption that big bulky headsets that need to be plugged in.
Umm you literalllllllllly just described the Apple Vision Pro lol
If these glasses will have the capability of recording video then they will sell like crazy to those involved in social media. No longer would you see people holding video camera's, go pro's or their mobile phones, they will all be wearing these glasses to record things like travel, making things, building things, human interactions, basically anything and everything you see taken with a video camera, a go pro or a mobile phone will be done with these glasses instead.
Smart glasses have the potential to be a transformative technology for people with impaired vision or sight loss.
I gotta be honest I’ve been deep in the Apple ecosystem my whole life and I love their products especially the hardware is just unmatchable,but Google and Samsung has been cooking lately not gonna lie with the AR stuff and with the OS too you gotta give the and to them.
Google today showed off a set of lightweight smart glasses that have deep Gemini integration and an optional in-lens display that can offer up relevant information like turn-by-turn directions.
Made to rival the Meta Ray-Bans and smart glasses coming from Apple in the future, Google's XR glasses feature a camera, microphones, and speakers. They connect to a smartphone for app access, and with Gemini integration, the glasses can answer questions about the wearer's surroundings, provide directions, and offer up live translations.
Gemini is able to use the cameras in the glasses to see what's around the wearer to provide feedback, and Google says the glasses will "see and hear what you do" so they'll understand context and "help you throughout your day." On stage at Google I/O, Google executives demonstrated how the Android XR glasses will be able to send messages to friends, make appointments, snap photos, and translate conversations in real-time.
Google plans to work with companies like Warby Parker and Gentle Monster to create stylish smart glasses that consumers will want to wear.
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It's quite innovative as the glasses include microphones, a camera, speakers, and an in-lens display.
Effective Live translation would be epic. Excellent way of learning a new language too.
Most people these devices are for—especially the prosumers and productive computer users these high end tech devices will be for at first—typically don’t care or need a product to be popular or be a mass market device to be useful or derive value from the device.
Buyers of high-end and prosumer hardware typically don’t care if most people can afford or resonate with the value of the device.
What matters is if it’s useful for them primarily from a productivity, creative, and efficiency standpoint.
Consuming/Creating spatial and non-spatial content at a prosumer level on par with regular prosumer devices wasn’t even possible before the Vision Pro.
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Nope. The Vision Pro is the first prosumer standalone headset that meets the prosumer baselines of standard prosumer computing devices such as Apple’s existing ecosystem.
An important baseline for prosumer and above spatial computing content and use to be pursued, produced, and catered for.
Mainstream/low-end standalone headsets have yet to be executed to that extent; for example the Quest headsets are not at all on par with current gen and past gen gaming/mainstream hardware—they don’t even have HDR and worser picture quality than a conventional 4K HDR TV!
That minimizes the appeal of playing non-spatial games in it accordingly.
The games such headsets run are constrained by their mobile-level APUs and are more akin to mobile and switch games compared to conventional home/PC games many gamers want to play if they’re gonna pay hundreds more or as much as a home console for the hardware.
Apple has moved things forward for the prosumer spatial computing segment in ways no other company has been able to do so far including establishing the supply chain innovations and growth towards better prosumer and mid-tier devices moving forward.
Apple has executed better in the prosumer segment of the market than mainstream and low-end headset manufacturers have.
The Vision Pro like several prosumer Apple products is not a mass market item. The complexity of the hardware itself does not lend itself to be.
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I can't wait for the spurious lawsuits 'Man falls into open-manhole while using Google XR' or 'XR startled me when drinking hot coffee and I spilled it on my lap'
It’s a completely different category of spatial computing with distinct trade-offs and limitations of use and experiences to be had.
Apple like many manufacturers typically has several asynchronous hardware efforts in the works that strategically borrow from each other and depend on each other in which the Vision Pro’s rollout is already anticipated to be.
The Vision Pro can easily be surmised as establishing the necessary supply chain and market side-effects needed for lesser and more mainstream-oriented devices.
The Pro Display XDR literally did that for the Macbook, iPad Pro, Vision Pro, and iPhone with its screen tech and baselines that still has distinct advantages over mainstream and prosumer monitors sold today.
The Vision Pro already has including for more serious alternatives to be in the market including its use and new baselines for the market that benefits mainstream headsets.
The average person typically and understandably doesn’t think of the market in such a way.
There aren't any - it's vaporware at this point. "They plan to work with" glasses companies to make them.
Don’t worry about the thumbs downs, facts hurt a lot of feelings around these parts. Google glasses was a really bad project and you’re certainly right it was abandoned
I'd bet you'd compromise your principles too for $20B. Every man has his price. $20B would have me looking the other way...a lot.😇
Edit: If F'Elon Musk decides to drop $20B🤑🤑🤑 in my lap, I'd sing the praise of the saintliest man alive. Honestly, my price is much lower than $20B.🫢