No, you misunderstand me actually, I'm not saying that it wouldn't be useful. In fact, I believe AR glasses would be absolutely world-changing in the possibilities they allow for, but nothing is world-changing that people won't do, and people won't wear glasses. I also do not picture Google Glass. I picture perfectly normal eyeglasses. Yes, people do wear sunglasses, and that is when it is sunny, and also because sunglasses actually look cool from a social perspective. Eyeglasses do not look cool, they look useful. The problem is, people won't wear eyeglasses that don't absolutely have to. AR glasses therefore, have no chance.
AR will come to cars, aquariums, zoos, firefighter helmets, soldiers' visors, etc. not glasses. AR will be used on smartphones and tablets (mainly smartphones) by holding them up toward the environment for short periods of time to get information.
I still completely disagree with you.
I don’t have the pacience to tell why you are probably wrong and talk about all the use cases but since for you the big problem is that people hate glasses...
First and foremost, a good pair of well chosen eyeglasses look super cool and sexy, in both man and woman.
If you care about fashion and self image you can be as cool as It gets with eyeglasses.
Also, If you don’t have the luck of being good looking you will probably look better with a well chosen pair of eyeglasses than without it.
Also, If Augmented reality glasses could double as eyeglasses/sun glasses you would already cover a major part of the population that already uses them daily.
On a side note, since you talked about LASIK...
People start using eyeglasses because they have bad eye-sight, If you have the opportunity to solve that problem with a minor surgery, I feel It is absolutely logical that you do...I also did the LASIK intervention.
That doesn’t mean I didn’t like wearing eyeglasses, which I loved.
It just means, that now I don’t need them because I can see without them and that is even better.
Second, as you said, “augmented reality in smartphones and tablets will work by holding them up toward the environment for short periods of time to get information”.
In a sense, in a world where the physical and virtual reality interwine in the same plane, this Mixed reality will be the center not only of our virtual lives but also our real ones.
Then, the smartphones will only be capable of giving us an myopic glimpse of that world, a world that people will want to see, and since nobody wants to have bad eyesight, as they do for the physical world, people will use AR glasses for the virtual one.
It is just a small compromise for not being a digitally myoptic with the smartphone in your hand.
It doesn’t even matter If you like glasses or not, If you have bad eyesight you correct It with eyeglasses (at least until you can have an LASIK correction), the samething will eventually happen with augmented reality.
Third, I can accept that there will always be space for a number of different ways to interact with the virtual world.
Namely, I can imagine a slate screen, the size of a smartphone that we will carry around like today inside our pockets, with exactly the same purpose of the Iphone besides the function of housing then hardware to power the Apple Glasses.
What I can’t imagine for a single second is that this slate screen will be the center of our virtual lives like It is today.
Instead, It will become a secondary device, a device like the Apple Watch is today.
Today, you go to the Iphone to do what you can’t do on the Apple Watch and basicly everything by today standards can’t be done on the Apple Watch.
Tomorrow you go to the Apple Glasses to do what you can’t do on the Iphone screen and it is very probable that basically everything by tomorrow standards can’t be done on the IPhone screen.
