VR is pretty cool but honestly until they figure out a way to have it without those glasses, I have hard time believing will be adopt by the masses.
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HoloLens Inventor Avi Bar-Zeev Departs Apple's AR/VR Team
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I would think that if they are close to a product, he would stay and see it “come to life”. They could have a cool video of him describing it’s development for the roll out. Leaving now to me sounds like nothing coming soon.
The phrasing might be awkward due to English not being his native language? I perceived he was trying to say that even if he hadn't been there, the smart people present would have come up with it anyway."I helped invent Hololens and built the first prototypes to sell the idea. If I hadn't been there in January 2010, it might have started later without my help. Let's never forget the thousands of smart people who made it real." - Avi Bar-Zeev
The least humble of humble brags.
Nah. Native language or not, you perceived what he said incorrectly. You can't get what you perceived from this: If I hadn't been there in January 2010, it might have started later without my help. In essence, Hololens would not have debuted when it did without his help. He was also including himself in the thousands of smart people.
I’ll make one more prediction. This is unlike what Apple would traditionally do, but for privacy reasons and for social acceptance, I think that there’ll have to be an on/off switch that physically covers the camera array. Maybe a dial on one of the stems turns the camera into itself so it’s immediately clear to anyone looking at the wearer, that the glasses arent filming them.
This is critical. You’d never be able to go into a washroom or a locker room with the glasses that you might need for your vision if there wasn’t an easy and verifiable way to physically disable the camera.
Bingo! That's what I've been saying all along ... and I'm looking forward to this debut as the last phrase of technology I'll probably need to adapt to.
Oh? I never knew that! How did that transpire, pray tell?
…Keyhole, a company that was purchased by Google and became the foundation of Apple Maps.
Was a pocketable computer a technology looking for a problem to solve? I mean, we already had powerful laptops that we could carry with us.
Have some vision. Omnipresent, yet unobtrusive technology is the future. That only happens if we can wear it. The Watch and AirPods are already here. The final piece are the glasses to superimpose information onto the real world.
In the near future, we'll walk around with just our Watch which will be the centre of our digital lives. It'll host our digital assistant who we'll interact with primarily through voice. It'll be where we have access to all of our own personal data as well as all the publicly available information on the internet. It'll be how we communicate and how we are reached by others. It's also the most personal of personal computers, attached to our wrist, pressed against our skin measuring our vital data and making sense of it to help us improve our health and lead to a better quality of life.
AirPods are an optional extension of that. Our assistant in our ears, a way to enjoy music, podcasts, news or have conversations.
Want to watch something on a bigger screen? Apple is making an aggressive push to have AirPlay everywhere. Odds will be that there's a screen around you that you can AirPlay to from your Watch. Want a screen always on you? No problem, you can fit a foldable iPad into your pocket or you can wear Apple Glasses.
Aside from providing the big screen component to the Watch, Augment Reality Glasses are the third revolution of the Internet. Rather than going to the internet to search for and consume information, the internet will be all around us, superimposed on to the real world. We won't go to Yelp to get reviews on a restaurant. We'll be out to eat and look around and see reviews of the restaurants around us. You won't go to Instagram. You'll look around and see photos people are sharing hovering over them. Want to know who's single and made themselves available? That cute girl seated a few tables away with her friends at your fav sushi place, she shared her single status. Welcome to the new Tinder.
The future is wearables. It's going to happen whether or not you've realized it yet. In fact, it's already happening.
What gimmick? They didn't show or announce this. you are mistaking Samsung for Apple.
Be careful what you wish for. People are already resenting the noise that a constantly connected lifestyle brings. No one is immune to the addictions, social anxieties, distractions, and abuses that your tech idols didn’t anticipate. Who wants to wear something that has that much control over them?
Maybe he saw it heading down the same path as Siri and noped out of there.
I think that VR and AR are interesting, but wearing a headset or something similar will probably not catch on unless it is really small and unintrusive.
People can point at stuff like the Apple Watch and AirPods to say that wearable are the future, but people have been using similar wearables for decades or longer.
If it interferes with one's vision, or in uncomfortable it probably will be useless outside of gaming.
Now, if it is AR on a HUD in a vehicle, this would be a useful tool that could potentially save lives.
People can point at stuff like the Apple Watch and AirPods to say that wearable are the future, but people have been using similar wearables for decades or longer.
If it interferes with one's vision, or in uncomfortable it probably will be useless outside of gaming.
Now, if it is AR on a HUD in a vehicle, this would be a useful tool that could potentially save lives.
This is the thing...
After wearing the Apple Watch (series 0 and 2) since the start, it now starts to annoy me when you're in a room filled with people all wearing the same black square device on the wrist. It looks too nerdy.
Imaging seeing them all wearing the same glasses.....
Apple will need to be very creative in the "looks" of these glasses so that I wouldn't find myself a huge nerd being part of huge nerdy group wearing the same nerdy stuff.
no serious geek leaves company just before releasing product, he developed..unless relationship become salty. assuming everything is ready for release is far far stretch...we haven't heard any rumors on VR/AR glasses...
I partly agree, but have a different vision. for me the watch makes only sense if they can kind of integrate some small airpods, for calls. but their current health strategy indicates that your assumptions are wrong and they still unfortunately dont wanna replace the iphone
glasses in any form are long due and should already be available for business - the strategy must be to bring it from business to consumer - other way round didn't work out for google - we all remember the words the people gave glasses wearers
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his statement means, i got a lot of cash to shut up, and i hate apple as many do nowadays - i mean it is so clear how can somebody misread i?!
Sorry dude.
The wearable future you painted missed the obvious new frontier of Apple wearables: mind meld
Mind-Meld, A touch technique (when using an Apple wearable) that allows to merge the mind with the essence of another's mind purely by using specialized contact via fingertip-points.
Mind Meld: "To boldly go (with an Apple wearable) where no Man has gone before" /s
For the time being, because of it not launching at the time period promised. Though I very much believe it will come this year.
Read the story of how the iPhone came together. Engineers who worked on the original iPhone left the company as soon as they had finished their role. They didn’t even wait for it to launch. It was a highly stressful time, including stories of engineers getting divorced because they spent years working on a secret project that they couldn’t talk about, and were asked (demanded) to work weekends and holidays. Apple even booked hotels in Cupertino so they could sleep near One Infinite Loop and work as much as possible, with little commute time. They barely ever went home.
As for rumours on the Glasses, where have you been? Of course there have been rumours. But forget the rumours, we have actual facts regarding significant hires in the field of optics and AR, companies acquired for associated technologies and several credible hints of a secret project. There’s even been word of a world renowned glasses designer working with Jony Ive. All this compounded by Apple’s clear interest in AR and Tim Cook himself being open about how it’s an area of intense.
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