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Kuo: Apple Glasses to Launch in 2026 or 2027 at the Earliest
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Yeah. I had 9 and 11 myopia. When I was 26 I got LASIK and now I go around without glasses. No more glasses ever for me, not again.
Yeah, me too. But at the rate myopia is increasing, that might just be most relevant people by the year 2026. By relevant I just mean the age group Apple targets.
Those are the goggles, not the glasses.
I did watch Ready Player One and if someday what that movie represents can be done, then I'm sorry, Humanity is really ****ed.
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This is something I have interest in to own and responsibly use, but it’s not the first product of its kind.
Google launched something very similar and was ahead of its time with Google Glasses. Back then people were ostracized and labeled “Glassholes”, and that’s when I felt this sort of tech got put out to pasture due to attrition. Now we have Apple 10+ years later with their version to the be unleashed into the world.
Did we learn from our past mistakes? Probably not!
Google launched something very similar and was ahead of its time with Google Glasses. Back then people were ostracized and labeled “Glassholes”, and that’s when I felt this sort of tech got put out to pasture due to attrition. Now we have Apple 10+ years later with their version to the be unleashed into the world.
Did we learn from our past mistakes? Probably not!
Now we have gone full distance with different sources estimating when AR glasses will be a useful item rather then something to just throw out and see if it swims or sinks. Not sure how long this will take but at least none of this last hope to convince investors speculative approval before it’s seen having some media progress.
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People are already willing to wear gigantic goggles for fun. A pair of glasses instead? No contest.
I think what made the difference with Google Glasses was the camera. People didn't want to be randomly photographed that way.
Unfortunately I cannot wear contact lenses any time soon because my dog caused me a corneal erosion and it could pop up again if I put anything to / in my eye 🤓
Ah, the real Retina Display.
(will get one if I can watch Ted Lasso on them while I'm in meetings)
Looking forward to WWDC. We’ve yet to see hard proof that any of this AR/XR stuff actually exists. I’m still skeptical.
Realists always think about both sides of possible new products. Financial benefits vs consumer interest. Both are tepid presently, because the marketplace did have unreasonable expectations by large companies. Now reality brings us back to being skeptical as we should be.
in what world?
The first iPod was only moderately successful, and had tons of lacking features that competitors already had for cheaper.
It took them lowering the price, introducing the second generation with Windows support, introducing the iTunes Store, and creating a cheaper spinoff called the iPod Mini (later Nano)before it became the cultural phenomenon that it was.
The original iPhone launched… About $300 pricier than most other flagships, with no 3G networking, no third-party application support, no enterprise support, no cut copy and paste, no video recording, no MMS, no group SMS, no turn by turn directions, no home screen customization or wallpapers, no custom ringtones… all of this came later, and it very much reflects in the sales numbers.
The first iPhone took three months to sell its first million units, the iPhone 3G sold that in a weekend.
In total the original iPhone sold about 6.1 million units… the 3G sold about 5X that.
The original Apple Watch had no idea what it wanted to be either, it didn’t really settle into what it is now until the series 3 or so where they finally jumked all the original gimmicks and just… made a finished people friendly product.
In retrospect, all of this stuff took time.
That’s the headset and not the glasses.
The headset is rumored to launch this year, and look very similar to most other VR type headsets…
The glasses are not coming anytime soon, will look like totally normal glasses, and won’t do any virtual reality at all, but be augmented reality completely and totally.
At least that’s what I’m getting from this, two completely and totally different products.
A big VR headset for this year,glasses for later on.
I honestly don't know if you are right or wrong, but I think the same argument was made against the watch. The last watch I had worn before the apple watch series 0 had power rangers on it.
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Those "people" were HERE. "We" ridicule anything & everything not made by Apple.
See phablets while Apple clung to the "perfect"/"one handed use"/"no fragmentation" phone with 3.5" screen and then the "perfect" 4" screen. When Apple went phablet, apparently that whole crowd grew bigger hands or now carry "man purses" or wear "pants with bigger pockets."
See NFC (pay by phone) BEFORE Applepay and then "I won't shop any store that won't accept Applepay" after.
Intel chips were fine before Silicon- "we" craved getting the latest-possible Intel-based Mac and gushed about POWER instead of PPW.
Notch was "iconic" until Dynamic Island became THE way.
See the infamous iPod thread(s) right up to launch day. "We" ripped that thing to shreds in collective opinion.
"We" were big fans of Google Maps before Apple Maps... Spotify before Apple Music... the LG monitor was not so "plasticy"/"wobbly"/"ugly" before ASD when Apple themselves were endorsing it as THE monitor for Macs in Apple's own stores, etc.
I'm convinced that if Apple would bottle and brand air or water, a chunk of this group would smother to death or dehydrate to dust because they would refuse to breathe/drink "inferior" regular air/water if they were short of either exclusively from Apple.
The one lesson to learn from the past around here is that the seemingly collective opinion will readily flip with whatever Apple wants to push. Once Apple rolls it out, "we" will rationalize ANYTHING at ANY price and promptly turn on any competing thing even if it does the same better and/or for less cost. "99% don't want", "no use case", "solution in search of a problem", "I would never buy such a thing" will all magically flip into "Shut up and take my money" and then "how did we ever get by without..." At least a few will take the middling step of "it's starting to grow on me" and/or "I'll have to try it out in a store first."
Google glass adopters were Glassholes? Let Apple roll out exactly the same and "we" won't be in the cool club unless we have them. In the long run, I suspect "we" will eventually and happily look like Star Trek Borg if Apple will just keep rolling out variations of "wearables"... with an Apple logo on them. Resistance is futile.
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It’s a rumor. Most reports are more valuable with context. Who is saying it etc. Often with Apple few even know the full scope of what they are working on themselves.
The product they release now is a s second step towards their ultimate goals. The first was actually ARKit.
You have a good point. On the other hand, I tried wearing a watch (iWatch) again, for the first time in decades, and just couldn't get used to it, so I quit and tossed it into a drawer where it remains. I doubt I was the only one.
Kuo is my least favorite part of MacRumors - does anyone know of a plugin that can automatically hide any post with his name from the front page?
I'm sure you weren't, but judging by the success it has had, it appears you were in the minority.