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New AR Sensor Coming to 2020 iPad Pro and iPhone Models, AR/VR Headset as Soon as 2021

Bruce Patterson said:
Nobody wants these. Please STOP!
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I think AR glass will have its own market, but I agree on the iPad front.

The last thing I am looking for is a better camera system on the iPad, especially the camera bump. What I really want are:
  • Cheaper iPad Pro: $799 for entry level iPad Pro is just ludicrous to me. It should start at $599, just like before.
  • 2 USB-C ports.
  • Better keyboard: I shouldn't have to turn to third party (e.g., Brydge) for MacBook-like keyboard with trackpad.
As far as hardware is concerned, that's pretty much it. iPadOS should continue to close the gap with macOS, by offering more desktop features.
 
Hopefully is just me, but I don’t see the advantage of AR except in video games.. I find that the Measure app is cool, but it’s not going to replace a tape measure, ruler or calipers. As someone who doesn’t play video games (occasionally play old GameCube games) I don’t see how this is going to revolutionize anything.

I hope I’m proven wrong. The iPhone revolutionize the smart phone and the iPad killed the netbook and tablets before the iPad were slow thick laptops with touch screens.
 
confessJason said:
“Gaming, watching video, and virtual meetings."

Wow, so more content consumption and passive entertainment value. Certainly a bicycle for the mind.
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You can do that now, on your iPhone, iPad, and desktop or portable computer, with great quality big screens, not tiny projections on a lens 1 cm from your eye. And I remember Skype and other software as virtual meeting software, where you can talk. Where would the speakers/mics be on these glasses? AirPods type, yep, they are cheap! Lets see, when it comes out. The Mac Pro and 16" MacBook Pro might be out by then.
 
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Macman8472 said:
I am really surprised Apple has even spent time or money on this product area. I used to work for Epson who tried to sell their useless smart glasses. No developer software, real awkward to wear, no marketing, no sales channel, nothing. Apple is a consumer product company, this and all other smart glasses are niche, very niche, specialist areas, not mass produced products. It can only be half interesting if it is £199/$230 or less. How much for the software? Won't be cheap. Can't think of one use at home, yes a few industrial uses, but like I said, niche, very niche. Everyone else has failed, can't see what Apple can bring to the table. I wish Apple spent more time and money updating their computer products. And not every 3-5 years with the same high prices.
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Sound like the early arguments against the iPod and then the iPhone.
 
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tgwaste said:
What a lack of imagination. This system is a game changer. Everyone will be able to create VR places that others can load up and experience.

That will be amazing.
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Imagine how people will scatter when they see the big white glasses coming - who knows that is being recorded and where it is being uploaded to - not I!
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Bruce Patterson said:
Imagine how people will scatter when they see the big white glasses coming - who knows that is being recorded and where it is being uploaded to - not I!
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Also, nothing could possibly go wrong with people wearing these while ... driving ... operating heavy machinery ... lol
 
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iGeneo said:
Sound like the early arguments against the iPod and then the iPhone.
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Apple joined the music party late. There were several companies offering music players. But they did a brilliant job of great hardware and great software that they bought. Marketed it brilliantly. All they did was change the music format from tapes, mini discs to HD devices. They saw the market really well, and did brilliantly out of it. Smart glasses have been around for what 6 plus years. Where is the market, growing market? All failed. Tiny market, niche market, not mass market. 3D TVs failed, curved TVs failed. The market for 17" laptops is there, bigger than niche smart glasses. In many ways I wish they story never got out. It appears it will be 2-3 years away.
 
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Welcome to the world of the future!

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cmaier said:
Seriously? It's obviously useful. The issue has been that it's too unwieldy so far, but once Apple or someone else makes a pair of glasses that is no bigger than ordinary glasses, it will take off like a rocket. It can do everything an apple watch can do, without you even having to raise your wrist.
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Without the Apple Watch, it won't be able to check your heart rate ;)
 
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Lol, imagine these ugly white glasses paired with the white tampons that people wear from their ears. I am interested in these but if they look anything like the mockup, no thanks.

That would be a hilarious picture to see, can someone out there photoshop these glasses on a head with AirPods in their ears?
 
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Bruce Patterson said:
Nobody wants these. Please STOP!
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Bruce, you gotta expand your mindset behind your own premature self based assumptions. You probably haven’t considered of how the AR glasses could be a ‘game changer’ in terms of the medical field, even training for those becoming professionals in the medical field could have a huge advantage with this type of technology. That’s just one example of how the AR glasses will be relevant for years to come.
 
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