Leaked Videos Reveal Samsung's Plans for AR Glasses to Compete With Apple

[jhoff8600]

Alright, who else is taking snapshots of this thread so we can look back and laugh 10 years from now when we’re all wearing smart glasses?

You have a point. new products like these, start small with early adopters looking past all the flaws because the tech really fascinates them. To the rest of use these products look silly, alienating, useless, and expensive. These "beta" products that push the boundaries of technology are necessary to seed an ecosystem and to get feedback and funding to develop better versions. Eventually they have the potential to become an essential product for a wider audience.

I have always rooted for apple and I love tech, yet I felt all of the negative things above about the iPhone until the 4 came out. and I felt the same about the applewatch, till the applewatch 4 came out. I still feel that about air pods (mostly because the don't fit my ears). Apple TV was the same until the 4K came out. Same with the mac book air till the M1.

For this I say thank you to all the beta testers who open up their wallets and forge a better beaten path for the rest of us.

PS, Why do the "samsung glasses light" have to make that guy look like such a douche bag? I'm still trying to figure out if that is a feature or a bug. Guess it depends on your outlook in life.

 

[alexandr]

will they come with a white cane, so that people assume that you couldn't see just how ugly they were?..

 

[Apple_Robert]

Tech in the pocket. Tech on the wrist. Tech in the ears. Sometimes it’s enough

Said using your tech Mac. I don't think one can have too many gadgets. At least I wouldn't publicly state such, lest my Man card be revoked.

 

[skitidetdu]

Looks like something that came out of a kindergarten class.

 

[LFC2020]

How much bloat will they come with. 😂

 

[groundedUX]

Sunglasses mode? I think they first need a toggle to turn off “periscope mode”

 

[Robin Bonathan]

So watches, cellphones and now glasses. What's next, smart hats & underwear? Why not just tape a giant battery to your body and call it a day.

Anal anyone ?

 

[Mendoza_559]

Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[ericwn]

Of course, as we know that everything Apple does is the worst as far as you are concerned.

Well said. The Apple hate is throng with that one.

 

[wbeasley]

When will the rumours of a Samsung Car be put online? Surely, where Apple goes or is rumoured to go, follows Samsung.

First they will deride any car, then announce it.

Like headphone removal. Like power adapter.

Had a Samsung TV for 7 years which had regular panel issues. There support service was awesome.
But their "innovation" arm is just a copycat.

 

[mi7chy]

When will the rumours of a Samsung Car be put online? Surely, where Apple goes or is rumoured to go, follows Samsung.

Samsung already made cars. Try again.

 

[Rocko99991]

OOF

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Which device are you hoping to see?

Hell, I'm fine with no new devices, just improvements on current ones. Just thinking about the near future things for me personally, I'd like an Apple Watch that isn't a fat square blob. One that is more elegant in how it fits your wrist, like a traditional watch. Also an officially supported application for creating completely custom watch faces. As a designer I find the provided configurations, complications and faces lacking.

On the phone side, nothing radical, I just want to speed up what Apple are likely already going to do in time but bring it forward instead of stringing out hardware changes to sell units year-on-year. Having TouchID on the lock button, a iPhone 5 sized body with fullscreen display. AirPods that with malleable tips so they fit my ear.

I want Apple to be less rigid in their sterile, one-size-fits-all approach and bring back more of the character, polish and whimsy that they were known for decades ago.

 

[sir1963nz]

* Final look, feel, and functionality subject to change in en effort to look as close to an Apple product as we can.

 

[ryanflanders256]

Samsung will release AR glasses first, and the UI will be clunky.

Apple will wait to release AR glasses until the UI is polished to a fine shine.

It's going to be iPhone 1 all over again.

 

[Anthony Sullivan]

I like it. It makes me feel "yeah, we're really in 2021 now".

 

[Jony Ive and Co.]

Samsung copying Apple before Apple even releases the product again... just like the Galaxy Home Speaker copying HomePod, Smart Tags copying AirTags etc. All Samsung tries is to enter the market before the competition, which results in crappy products

 

[shapesinaframe]

Deliberate leak to gauge reactions so they know what to revise and how to manage expectations for the actual product launch in the future - and this might not actually be a Samsung product leak, this could be from another brand that is just testing to see what people think of this concept.

 

[Alan Wynn]

Deliberate leak to gauge reactions so they know what to revise and how to manage expectations for the actual product launch in the future

Given that it likely exceeds the actual product (mostly because the UI is unlikely to work the way it does in the video), I do not think it is anything other than a concept or marketing video. I do not see this as managing expectations - it seems pretty maximalist.

this might not actually be a Samsung product leak, this could be from another brand that is just testing to see what people think of this concept.

No other brand would create a fake Samsung product demo. Too many legal issues.

 

[Xade]

Well, if it's good enough for Brains from Thunderbirds....

 

[james_b]

It would be so nice if people instead of tech-smart-things everywhere simply start using the thing in their head. It's called brain i think.

 

[groove-agent]

OMG those glasses look beyond dorky.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

Especially the direct manipulation interface with nothing on his hands for tracking.

What they are “aiming for” is not a new idea. This is the Minority Report interface. I only give credit for actual shipping product.

Other than the generic statement (as technology improves in general), how close this is to a shipping product is unclear. 🙃

Yes dude, I get it. I know this is not a new idea. And yes, it could turn out to be vaporware.

I guess I'm a glass half-full type of guy about this stuff.

But this, like folding screens, voice commands/recognition, VR gaming, hell, the iPhone, etc. WAS the stuff of Science Fiction for the greater part of my life. Yet here we are. Even now my mind is still blown every time I ask Google or Siri to do something, or interact in any way with my thin, hand-held piece of glass.

A/R is real. It's only a matter of what I believe to be a short amount of time before this becomes what we expect, and clearly folks are actually working on it.

 

[Arsenikdote]

Yes dude, I get it. I know this is not a new idea. And yes, it could turn out to be vaporware.

I guess I'm a glass half-full type of guy about this stuff.

But this, like folding screens, voice commands/recognition, VR gaming, hell, the iPhone, etc. WAS the stuff of Science Fiction for the greater part of my life. Yet here we are. Even now my mind is still blown every time I ask Google or Siri to do something, or interact in any way with my thin, hand-held piece of glass.

A/R is real. It's only a matter of what I believe to be a short amount of time before this becomes what we expect, and clearly folks are actually working on it.

I would add to this that it is seldom an "out of nowhere" thing. Meaning you have to crawl before you can walk before you can run. When Apple released its original iPhone, there were plenty of smartphones before it. They took it mainstream by advancing and combining ideas and features into a cohesive and wonderful user experience. But it didn't come out of nowhere. It was just a "next step" in advancing existing ideas and technologies.

Before this video from Samsung we had many others that were showing this type of thing. Microsoft HoloLens anyone? To Darth's point, seeing someone (Samsung or otherwise) pushing this more and more towards "mainstream" is exciting. Not because specifically what Samsung is or isn't going to pull off, but because it makes it more and more likely for it to be a reality and mainstream. It is a step in the many necessary steps to make AR part of our daily lives. Obviously we all hope Apple will crush this when they tackle it, but we shouldn't discount the steps that come before that.

 

[whitedragon101]

Codename “Mr Potato Head”