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Leaked Apple Mixed Reality Headset Parts Outline Goggle Enclosure in More Detail
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Almost 4 years ago. Anyone remembered when Google officially launched Google Glass?
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4K and 8K have nothing to do with pixel density. A 20” 4K display is not going to have the same pixel density as a 80” 4k display.
The ‘K’ simply refers the horizontal resolution of the display. A 4K display is around 4,000 pixels wide; a 5K display is around 5,000 pixels wide; a 6K display is around 6,000 pixels wide; an 8K display is around 8,000 pixels wide.
So two 4K displays side-by-side is technically an 8K display, even if the vertical resolution didn’t increase.
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I share some of your skepticism about these parts being Apple Goggle parts. However, to the quoted point, you might consider the relative 3D location of these within the goggle mockups. The front of all goggle mockups we've seen (the part farthest from the eyes) is well removed from the face by what appears to be an inch or two in the (3D) z or depth plane.
If these parts are basically rims for that edge of the depth plane, the other end is where accommodations for nose and potentially corrective glasses can "fit" too. The depth of the space from front to back is where noses can be made to fit. Else, consider other face covering helmets we already know well like motorcycle...
...or welder...
In both cases- since we know those products- we know there is easily room for noses and glasses inside them. Now imagine stripping them away to their frame. For that motorcycle helmet in particular, stripping it away to a frame sans black plastic we see might yield some front parts that don't look so different than these rumored pieces.
Similarly, look at either "ski goggle" mockup image associated with all of these Apple Goggles stories. Imagine away that plastic so that it is only a frame. What would be the skeleton frame of those goggles? It seems reasonable the very front could have a frame shaped like these rumored parts. Build an inch or two of plastic "walls" towards the face from these and shape the face-touching end so that it can accommodate a nose and glasses.
Again, I'm a bit skeptical about these parts too, as someone in another thread about them showed what seemed to be strong matches to parts inside of HomePods. But, at least for this one point, it is not hard to imagine a "fit" for these in Apple Goggles with plenty of room for any nose too. You just need to think about them not in 2D as shown but within a 3D goggles structure.
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I'd love a Gort design. Adding a laser pointer beam would be so cool!
And the parts is one image of the same part, one flopped upside down to show the connectors, etc...
And the parts is one image of the same part, one flopped upside down to show the connectors, etc...
The goggle concept that gets floated around is ****ing dumb. People aren't going to walk around wearing ski goggles.
Apple will do an AR headset that looks like normal eyeglasses or they won't do one at all.
There is zero chance they pursue VR when its been a flop for everyone else and the only real use-cases are gaming and porn.
Apple will do an AR headset that looks like normal eyeglasses or they won't do one at all.
There is zero chance they pursue VR when its been a flop for everyone else and the only real use-cases are gaming and porn.
I'm very excited to see exactly how big of a flop/trend that dies this will be. Apple is literally years late, to a fad that's declined to near-bottom.
I can almost see it now: some gimmicky commercial showing some female looking unknown gender and ethnicity but "clearly" artistic looks kind of person designing some furniture layouts and what not, the "shocking fun" of seeing some superimposed memojis on some actual people (because f*** them and their stupid real faces) for only 2999.
And then it goes down the same momory hole as the Touch Bar, and besides some quirky exploit that allows for 3d porn from Porhub it just fizzles and dies off.
I can almost see it now: some gimmicky commercial showing some female looking unknown gender and ethnicity but "clearly" artistic looks kind of person designing some furniture layouts and what not, the "shocking fun" of seeing some superimposed memojis on some actual people (because f*** them and their stupid real faces) for only 2999.
And then it goes down the same momory hole as the Touch Bar, and besides some quirky exploit that allows for 3d porn from Porhub it just fizzles and dies off.
The more I read about this thing, the less I get excited.
Thanks, appreciate that. I think I have it. The problem is in using image size interchangeably with image resolution, which even occurs in your reply. I.E. a 4k image could be any size, depending on the pixel size, as long as there are 4 thousand of them. The term “resolution” suggests how well the image can resolve detail, a function of pixel density, not pixel number, which is why resolution is a ratio (eg dots/inch) and “k” is not (pixel number alone). See the uploaded photo.
Maybe we should stop calling 4k displays “high res” and start calling them “high pixel”, ha!
They will when they are dubbed 'cool' by influencers and other lower life forms. Just watch, sadly...
Those are huge money making industries though. Money is absolutely what apple is about.