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Report: Apple Mixed-Reality Headset to Feature Iris Scanning for Authentication and Payments
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I wonder if the difference between the Pro and the consumer set would be that the Pro comes with a processor, but the consumer uses your phone? With AR, you could have your data phone sized, iPad sized or huge multi screen desktop sized. Of course, it’s all some version of iOS and all runs the same apps unlike something like DeX.
predicting Apple is so stupidly easy these days
Kuo said it = virtually 100% accurate
Young said it = 80% chance, esp. with Kuo corroboration
Gurman said it = literally just a parrot of the former two mixed with his own…let’s just say “dreams”
P.S.—Gruber’s “little birdies” always give fun tidbits
Kuo said it = virtually 100% accurate
Young said it = 80% chance, esp. with Kuo corroboration
Gurman said it = literally just a parrot of the former two mixed with his own…let’s just say “dreams”
P.S.—Gruber’s “little birdies” always give fun tidbits
this seems like a strategic controlled leak lol
anyway… I still have no idea how exactly this will work at all lol like I can’t picture it in real world use, but I’m excited.
anyway… I still have no idea how exactly this will work at all lol like I can’t picture it in real world use, but I’m excited.
If anyone asks to scan your iris, ask them this.
Send your kids over.
Let me scan their iris and keep data on them.
If they say no, that tells you everything you need to know.
They don’t AF about your family.
They only give AF about their own.
Send your kids over.
Let me scan their iris and keep data on them.
If they say no, that tells you everything you need to know.
They don’t AF about your family.
They only give AF about their own.
I would not get excited.
We don’t know what Apple will be like in 10 years.
The whole leadership will change.
They could become a pro dictator completely fascist leadership.
And then anyone who uses this will be ****ed.
Some tech companies have already worsened after a leadership change.
Google has hired so many Shiv Sena fundamentalists it is going to be a big pain.
Meta has moved the battery behind the head and by all reports it is much better balanced that the Quest and is comfortable for 8 hours. Plug it in for USBC power for desk work and battery when moving around.
Interesting that there's very little discussion of software on this thread. Hardware is, was and always has been largely unimportant in the evolution of a device class in the long term.
The bigger issue here is self-inflicted exposure to malicious social engineering by the terminally credulous. George Orwell is turning in his grave.
The bigger issue here is self-inflicted exposure to malicious social engineering by the terminally credulous. George Orwell is turning in his grave.
Apple Watch is a downgrade in screen real estate size. I do not want to interact with my AW beyond basic text reception and reading, time checking, directions, or weather. I respond to texts on my phone. And I do not want a constant eyesore sitting on my head distracting me with a mountain of emails, texts, app updates, and other nuisances I have my phone silenced to avoid and return to when I feel like it.
People on the internet have varying opinions. 🙃I'm shock! Shock, I tell you.🙃
I can't wait for the dystopian future some folks want for us where we only go where Apple/Google/<Your MegaCorp Here> leads.😒
"We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.
Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.
We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.
Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.
We shall prevail!"
Then, the IRIS data will actually be saved on the device AND in a Government repository. And once the government knows what everyone using this device’s irises look like… ummm.
Once they know, they will… I’m sure the first thing they’ll do with... ahh with this very valuable information...
I lost my conspiracy notes. What will they do with eye information that they can’t already do with the volumes of information they have already obtained through all the other ways that the government tracks us?
It's a market interest gauge to see how many people actually want to buy a redundant toy that does everything your phone already does, so trying to figure out who actually would buy it.
The reason why it keeps in the rumor mill and never releases is because Apple's Market Research actually shows very little interest beyond tech hobbyists.
MKBHD buying one isn't enough of a reason to release. Also, looking at Oculus and PSVR sales numbers as well as developers actually committing to make experiences beyond the 2 hour mark paints a very bleak picture for this device.
Google Glass was very ahead of its time and it flopped so hard Google canceled as quick as possible.
There is Zero interest beyond gamers and tech hobbyists.
It's also the same reason Apple is avoiding making a foldable phone. Zero interest beyond tech hobbyists and people who buy things for status symbols.
You just described over half iPhone demographics.😏
I predict it will look like helmet with flip down visor. Tell something like isn't more comfortable to wear than googles.🤨
I'd get one customized as a knight's helmet 'cause my kids tells everyone I'm Middle Aged.
Capitalism has run out of markets to expand into. The idea of a virtual universe is they have a new frontier to conquer. Expect micro-transactions from every company in this space whos business model doesn’t rely on selling the hardware itself.
I definitely see a way this sells more than Oculus. For starters, Apple is not Meta. Their user bases couldn't be more different. Apple knows they have enough of a bleeding edge (aka: rabid) user base that will jump in on v1 (regardless of price, features, etc.) to likely justify the undoubtedly significant R&D for such an endeavor. If &D isn't recouped with v1, certainly by v2 they will.
Secondly, Apple's ecosystem is also a significant difference here. Their HUD will only, and obviously, slide right into the mix, adding some additional features to their ecosystem previously not possible. As the category matures, you can bet the farm we'll see tiers to their HUD: SE, Air, regular, Pro, Max, Ultra - whatever. HUDs for all! 🤪
Additionally, just because Meta didn't get it right, has absolutely zero bearing on the category's overall potential. Like, none. The category is in it's infancy - I'd argue it's still gestating in the womb. Meta's vision of the Metaverse is, unsurprisingly, missing the point completely. The potential here seems less about being taken away to another place and much more about how we interface with our current spaces. Sure, entertainment will likely be the port of entry to the platform, I get that. But the bigger picture seems more about how we interface with technology. I see VR more as an evolution of the keyboard, the mouse, trackpad and touch. Can completely see where some form of HUD + gestures will replace computer monitors. Why be limited to a 27" monitor when you can have your entire field of vision, x-axis included, as your monitor?
Anyway, there is definitely a category here. One that is merely beginning. Whether you agree, or not, want it or not, can see it or not, it is inevitable. This is actually not being built for you, or me - our time, our marketability, has runs its course. This is being built for current kindergarteners who will one day not crack open a laptop to go to work, but strap on some goggles or glasses and go to work. Should be interesting to see how this unfolds.
