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Meta Unveils 'Orion' Augmented Reality Glasses

iMac The Knife said:
I owned Google Glass ten years ago. To this day it is still the most impressive piece of tech I've ever owned (and that was back in 2014 and it was a beta), and I've owned a ******** of tech gadgets in my life. Most people don't realize how awesome it is to have a voice controlled HUD that you can wear comfortably throughout the day, because they've never experienced it...add AR to that and you've got a winner. That is nearly the exact implementation I want to see for AR and I would purchase it immediately regardless of price, as long as it had 2024 hardware and software throughout. I don't want AR glasses, I want AR that runs from a prism, packaged like Google Glass. I still don't know how they engineered the prism on GG to completely vanish from your view unless you looked right at it, but they made it happen!
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With all due respect (and from someone who thinks Vpro is quite great/cool myself), perhaps a little trip down memory lane will show how Apple people felt about Google Glass in general.

And there's plenty more in history where that came from.

Perhaps "ahead of their time"??? But Google seems to be in no hurry to bring them back for another try... and they would presumably have the easiest path to do so.

Very simply: I see all of these kinds of products as aiming for the same target: bigger screens on the go. You really can't make phones much bigger... so how can tech deliver bigger phones? Can a mobile tablet be made much bigger? Who wants to lug around a 24" MB? 27"? 30", 34", 40", etc?

Vpro and all googles/glasses is- IMO- another crack at trying to deliver a mobile solution to "bigger screens on the go." IMO, Vpro gets it mostly right by delivering about any size screen on demand whenever one happens to be... minus the light pollution problem, minus the fold/crease issues, minus the ever-growing weight as anything physical scales up in size, etc. They can offer BOTH VR and AR applications in the same package. Pack this one thing in the bag and all such bases can be covered (if the software will come to fulfill the potential). To someone else, folds may be the way. To someone else, some kind of rolling screen may do it. A few may actually want to carry a 30" MB or similar.

I'm just not so confident that ANY kind of glasses form factor will be IT. But I'll hope with most that somehow, some way, someone delivers something that can scratch all itches. My best guess is that is some kind of implant with no external hardware at all (goggles, glasses or contacts). And yet, that seems pretty shaky as a concept too. "We are the Borg."
 
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What about people who already wear glasses? Do they wear those on top of their own glasses or must they switch to contact lenses? Or is there an option to fine-tune what they see?
 
Meta claims Orion looks and feels like a regular pair of glasses
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rymc02 said:
What is the point of these things? Like seriously, what are legitimate must-have use cases that these will be a necessity or "replace smartphones" as Zuck hopes in the Verge article?

It's a hot take but voice is the future, not AR.

The Apple Intelligence demo where Craig asked Siri if he could still make his daughter's play if his meeting is rescheduled, that if it comes to fruition, is the future of tech interactions. Not some clunky pair of glasses and wrist bands.

VR has its niche for games, movies and some other things. AR seems even less relevant in your daily life, no matter how good you make the device. People are inherently lazy. If you can just ask Siri to do something for you VS having to find and put on glasses and wrist band, what do you think most people are going to do?
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I disagree. I hate everything about voice control stuff. Nothing feels more ridiculous to me than talking out loud to my tech. I like quiet discrete tech and see all of this as the future. info at your eyeballs
 
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Make it go away.

Nobody wants augmented reality. It's a stupid concept.

And you know F*c*book would just use it to slap ads on EVERYTHING.
 
A step in the right direction, but we’re still aways off from this being a viable product.
 
blocsapp said:
Yikes! Makes Vision Pro price look like spare change.
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Well, at this stage ~50k is the cost of R&D for a limited set of devices. Of course the cost per device is gonna be high. It's just a step toward a future consumer product. I love the concept, but oh man does come with a lot of privacy concerns!
 
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Meta AI can do things like craft a recipe from what's inside your refrigerator, or phone a friend while the user washes dishes.
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Whoa whoa... Meta AI can help you phone a friend? While washing dishes? Amazing tech.

I especially like how the article points out "the user washes the dishes." We wouldn't want to confuse that Meta AI is washing the dishes in this context.
 
If it's not a consumer product, then it's just another Google Glass. Interesting to look at and play with, but otherwise a product without an audience.

(Yes, I know the Vision Pro could be described the same way... and I own one).
 
There’s literally nothing Facebook can make that would make me waste money on their hardware.

Google and Facebook have the same hate for me. Despise both companies.
 
Why do people hate actual reality and human intelligence so much? Worlds going to **** at an alarming rate and we should be doing our best to stay grounded and human, not playing with this misguided stuff.
 
jz0309 said:
So, not for consumers? Fine with me, they look ugly. Will be interesting to see how they are perceived, esp to the “old” Google glasses.
But it is also Meta, which means you are the product…
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I mean, no worse than the AVP which look absolutely cartoonish. AVP is obviously a much nicer product, but also ridiculously expensive, and not comparable to these glasses.
 
I’m an occultist. If my arm/hand/finger can’t occult the interface, it just won’t feel right.

And, if an environment can’t occult the entire world, it would be losing a feature I’ve become used to.
 
So instead of everyone hunched over their phones on Facebook...
everyone will be staring blankly into space on Facebook?
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