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New AR Sensor Coming to 2020 iPad Pro and iPhone Models, AR/VR Headset as Soon as 2021
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Yes - - I can imagine augmented reality glasses will eventually become a very useful tool for drivers.
I can't say I would like to wear these around town. I can see AMAZING applications for industry and the workplace though.
The future seems to be a locked in trajectory for dystopian hell... cant wait for everyone to live their lives publicly according to some Pokemon Go set of 'principles' and 'priorities' without an ounce of shame
When do we all get hooked up to cathethers?
When do we all get hooked up to cathethers?
By the time that happens you won't have many drivers left. The car industry is shifting from both owning a car and driving one to getting a ride in an autonomous vehicle.
AR is tremendously useful in many applications. For example, in manufacturing where the glasses can guide installation of parts and do QC. A cyclist can use AR glasses to see what's around and warn if a car is coming too fast. Instant translation of signs. Never forgetting your clients' name, their projects, ETC, ETC.
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If the glasses are light enough then,
When the guy ran the sub-2hr marathon recently there was a laser grid projected in front of him (them) by a car that showed the pace they needed to run at.
Imagine that supplied by the glasses when out training/exercising. You could set the desired speed or heart rate (provided by Watch) beforehand.
‘Too fast.’
‘Too slow.’
’Friendx is 50m behind you.’
‘Incline ahead‘
(‘Pub in 200m’)
etc. could be displayed.
No good for actual marathons until about 2025 though, because no doubt the battery won’t last long enough.
Sweatproof $500 extra.
When the guy ran the sub-2hr marathon recently there was a laser grid projected in front of him (them) by a car that showed the pace they needed to run at.
Imagine that supplied by the glasses when out training/exercising. You could set the desired speed or heart rate (provided by Watch) beforehand.
‘Too fast.’
‘Too slow.’
’Friendx is 50m behind you.’
‘Incline ahead‘
(‘Pub in 200m’)
etc. could be displayed.
No good for actual marathons until about 2025 though, because no doubt the battery won’t last long enough.
Sweatproof $500 extra.
Then those people shouldn’t purchase an iPhone. An extraordinarily successful product with a distinctive design that is quite visible at a distance.
BTW, how do you know what or how “most” people feel. You don’t and can’t.
Ha, I think these ought to make you excited:
Saw them last week in San Francisco at Wired25. Was told battery lasts one week (!). Was also told that they are coming out in January 2020. The little feet are headphones.
As long as Minecraft is one of the first games to launch, I'm in.
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Wait how does that work? I'm not seeing any display, processor, or batteries?
I can assume a tiny battery at the end of the stock, and maybe the tips of the headphones, but there still is no screen, driver, or processor?
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Wait how does that work? I'm not seeing any display, processor, or batteries?
I can assume a tiny battery at the end of the stock, and maybe the tips of the headphones, but there still is no screen, driver, or processor?
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Wait how does that work? I'm not seeing any display, processor, or batteries?
I can assume a tiny battery at the end of the stock, and maybe the tips of the headphones, but there still is no screen, driver, or processor?
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The lenses are the display. Everything else is in the frame, I assume. We weren't allowed to touch or use them, so can't tell you how well they worked. I thought it could be one of those vaporware, but was told they are real and are coming out in January. I was skeptical, but we'll see.
Another cool thing they displayed was the VR motorcycle helmet. The entire thing is enclosed, and you view the world via a VR display in the helmet, with a 360° view around you.
Wait how does that work? I'm not seeing any display, processor, or batteries?
I can assume a tiny battery at the end of the stock, and maybe the tips of the headphones, but there still is no screen, driver, or processor?
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The lenses are the display. Everything else is in the frame, I assume. We weren't allowed to touch or use them, so can't tell you how well they worked. I thought it could be one of those vaporware, but was told they are real and are coming out in January. I was skeptical, but we'll see.
Another cool thing they displayed was the VR motorcycle helmet. The entire thing is enclosed, and you view the world via a VR display in the helmet, with a 360° view around you.
How convenient or productive will they be if they have to be recharged every hour or two?
So you read ”designed to be worn most of the time” and translate that into “needs to be recharged every hour or two?”
Isn‘t it just possible that these will last at least as long as Apple Watch?
“Designed to be worn” is not the same as “Designed to be used”. Intermittent, low energy processes like those of the watch are realistic, unlike your fantasy.
Don’t be insulting. I didn’t provide any “fantasy.”
And even Apple Watch is all day screen on now, which means all day “used,” so I have no idea what you are talking about.
Okay and? I bought the phone for one person and one person only, me. I don’t care who sees my phone
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I mean, you are. You’re ranting about a non-issue.
They will be productive for as long as you get to use them. If you drain the glasses in 2 hours, that’s an extra 2 hours of productivity you would have gotten over a normal pair of glasses. Not to mention that you can always recharge them during the day.
My guess is that Apple will probably find a way to offload processing to the iPhone or Apple Watch, leaving the glasses (at least the first gen) as a “dumb display” to conserve battery life. It will likely match the 18-hour threshold set by the Apple Watch with a little extra juice to spare.
They are possibly also waiting for the other pieces to fall into place, such as a high-enough install base of iPhones with UWB to support sales of the AR glasses, or maybe even for the Apple Watch to be its own independent device.
It’s also possible that Apple may not yet have found the killer app to justify owning them. Apple’s recent AR demos have largely centered around gaming, and I don’t see myself spending $1k on AR glasses (with lenses) just to play Pokemon Go. Or maybe the software isn’t ready, and Apple has little desire to repeat the mistake it made with watchOS 1.0.
I also wonder how such devices might be accepted in public. As a teacher, would my principal and colleagues be comfortable with me wearing this about all day? So it’s a perception Apple may also have work doubly hard to overcome, and it’s possible that some institutions may well decide to just ban them outright. AirPods simply look different. Apple watches have been the focus of debate with regards to whether they can be worn during sensitive occasions such as nation-wide examinations.
No doubt Apple has many talent people working to solve these issues though.
Don’t be sensitive. You imagined a laundry list of potential uses. That’s fantasizing, especially if some abilities don’t yet exist, or the possibility of having adequate power to do multiples of them throughout the day is an engineering challenge.
They will be productive for as long as you get to use them. If you drain the glasses in 2 hours, that’s an extra 2 hours of productivity you would have gotten over a normal pair of glasses. Not to mention that you can always recharge them during the day.
My guess is that Apple will probably find a way to offload processing to the iPhone or Apple Watch, leaving the glasses (at least the first gen) as a “dumb display” to conserve battery life. It will likely match the 18-hour threshold set by the Apple Watch with a little extra juice to spare.
They are possibly also waiting for the other pieces to fall into place, such as a high-enough install base of iPhones with UWB to support sales of the AR glasses, or maybe even for the Apple Watch to be its own independent device.
It’s also possible that Apple may not yet have found the killer app to justify owning them. Apple’s recent AR demos have largely centered around gaming, and I don’t see myself spending $1k on AR glasses (with lenses) just to play Pokemon Go. Or maybe the software isn’t ready, and Apple has little desire to repeat the mistake it made with watchOS 1.0.
I also wonder how such devices might be accepted in public. As a teacher, would my principal and colleagues be comfortable with me wearing this about all day? So it’s a perception Apple may also have work doubly hard to overcome, and it’s possible that some institutions may well decide to just ban them outright. AirPods simply look different. Apple watches have been the focus of debate with regards to whether they can be worn during sensitive occasions such as nation-wide examinations.
No doubt Apple has many talent people working to solve these issues though.
Ab, what need do you want the glasses to fill?
No doubt the optics will seem magical when people first try them, and people will want them for their novelty alone.
One thing is inevitable. If these are a consumer product, their primary purpose will be to market more stuff to you.
Personally, I feel that Apple glasses (or whatever it will be called) make sense for any use case which involves holding up an iPhone or ipad for an extended period of time, while not requiring much user manipulation.
Instead of having to consume this content on a tiny screen, you now get a wider field of view at far less effort. Apple glasses will not only make our surroundings appear clearer, but also use AR to provide additional info and context to the world around us. That to me would be the “killer app”. Not one indispensable app, but a new way of interaction.
Off the top of my head, I think virtual turn-by-turn directions are destined for AR glasses, and this is probably the most obvious application. Seeing where your friend is via find my? Maybe some translator app which can convert text from one language to another. So when I look at a poster in a foreign language, I would see the text translated into English in real time. Or maybe instructions could be relayed to us in real time as we are assembling Ikea furniture.
Like the Apple Watch, I foresee the Apple glasses one day serving as a viable alternative to the iPhone, while also handling a new set of tasks previously not feasible on the phone.