I'm with you 100 % right there. A HUD of some sorts would be way too distracting, minimalism is key!
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So, Apple Glass is real. Your AR ideas?
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The vision accessibility features would be interesting. Increase contrast, increase magnification of signs in the distance if it detects you are staring at them, etc.
I'm not too sure about actually magnifying content when a display is in your face like Apple Glasses would be. My best guess is they'd be best for notifications and visual hints and cues.
Now we have LIDAR in the newest iPad Pros. Is it just me or does it seem like they wanted to release that AR-centric piece of hardware before WWDC 2020 so devs can play around with the new possibilities probably enabled by iOS 14?
And now we will see what developers will pull out their sleeves. Apple Releases ARKit 3.5 for Developers With Support for iPad Pro's LiDAR Scanner
I'll start:
- non-obstrusive notifications (think like Mac banners flying in on the side)
- always-on Shazam (like Now Playing notification banners)
- subtitles for persons speaking (bonus: highlight them with colors and color the subtitles accordingly)
- navigation purposes, like Apple Maps extension
- ViewTime; like FaceTime but the called person see's what you're seeing (ie for support purposes)
- and of course games like Pokémon Go
What are your ideas?
One must-have feature is 'Active Vision cancellation,' quite like the Noise cancellation feature it could allow to Zone Out or In according to the situation.
Just a tap, and the screen becomes prominent, one more tap and it goes translucent.
While this truly does sound great in theory, I think it would be a problem like smartphone zombies are today (well, at least when we're allowed to go outside again). Active Vision cancellation could be potentially dangerous and should not be possible to activate when walking or driving.
Well, that could be a built-in option, in case of moments the vision automatically shifts to transparency or just limited to notifications.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-ipad-pro-lidar/ - WIRED reporter Brian Barrett thinks the new LIDAR is a dry run for Apple Glasses.
Or maybe toggle between Dark Mode (sunglasses) and Normal Mode - when such a thing goes digital, everything's possible!
I think your perspective on this point is outdated. While I agree with you about the hazards and definitely do realize that smartphone zombies is a thing; that doesn't mean it's not the future. Video overlay, maps overlay, notification overlay, all these things are definitely the future. It's just a matter of how it gets implemented.
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Definitely makes sense with the glasses supposedly right around the corner in a year or two!
You might be right that my perspective is outdated, but the argument is that so are our vision sensors (eyes, really). We are not great at focussing at two things at once, and Apple Glasses has this wonderfully dangerous chance to overload our senses with things right in front of our goggles. That‘s what I‘m sensitive of - and that said I‘m excited of what our future will bring
You might be right that my perspective is outdated, but the argument is that so are our vision sensors (eyes, really). We are not great at focussing at two things at once, and Apple Glasses has this wonderfully dangerous chance to overload our senses with things right in front of our goggles. That‘s what I‘m sensitive of - and that said I‘m excited of what our future will bring
I won't really count you as Outdated and neither a pessimist to the technology. You have a fair point! There is no doubt that technology is amazing and dangerous at the same time.
Things like smartphone addiction are quite real and it is hampering our attention span, health, relationships, and whatnot on a daily basis. So, while my Idea does have merit, it indeed carries certain risks.
I hope we can come to a place, where these ideas are realized in a manner that is safe, sound and of course innovative. "Fingers crossed"
Will be looking forward to WWDC this year. There should be plenty of surprises waiting for us
Do we have any new news on Apple glasses? I haven't read anything in 6+ months, maybe 12+
Aside from everyone else working on glasses, no. Just the Lidar sensor in iPad that gives some reason to speculate.
Industrial design pitch and design meetings. I would arrive with a briefcase full of apple glasses and have them all se the different product designs in AR right on the meeting room table.
One could even quickly design a model in shapr3d and have them see the model evolve right in front of them…
One could even quickly design a model in shapr3d and have them see the model evolve right in front of them…
The glasses will enable way more stuff than in the OP.
Think things like:
AR and VR are two different things and neither is "better". VR is escapism. AR is assistance with real world tasks.
Think things like:
- Real time QR/barcode scanning by just looking at stuff. Want to do a stock-take? Just look at your stock and it is automatically recorded where it is via GPS.
- Real time maps overlay.
- Real time overlay of instructions on real world objects (e.g., assembly instructions for your furniture, parts identification, etc.
- Real time insertion of models into construction / refurbishment jobs (e.g., ikea catalog).
- Taking your macOS/iOS desktops with you and use of hand gestures to navigate apps.
- Location aware applications. e.g., you can "leave" your virtual book you're reading in the living room where it is pinned via GPS in 3d AR space, you can leave your virtual notes on your desk, etc. I'm really looking forward to getting away from the desk, and having a less cluttered desktop via leaving applications in 3d space where they are relevant.
AR and VR are two different things and neither is "better". VR is escapism. AR is assistance with real world tasks.
Couldn't agree more with you, eventually we will get there. OP was meant for a version 1 of Glasses, sure.
I'm still wondering a bit how small text will work on Glasses especially when you're focusing far away - is it even possible or will Glasses only be good for markers, arrows and stuff? I understand that in VR it is working because you're focussing on the display anyway, but in real glasses I do not know if that works.
Microsoft's holo-lens already does it.
Apple people who haven't checked out some of the holo-lens demos really should.
Forget the fact that it looks like a space helmet and has basically a laptop PC strapped to your head for a second (the apple version won't be like that, it will likely be just a wireless display for your iPad. the MS version won't be like that either, its still a developer device) - but some of the technology demos they have are awesome.
Stuff like sharing your view with a remote support person who can then basically draw on your vision to point things out for you to look at, etc.
I think they also have/had a haunted house app which basically puts AR monsters in your house 😂
Unless Apple have been seriously working hard on AR/VR stuff in the background without showing us much (which I think they have, expect some mind-blowing product in the next year or so), Microsoft are going to eat their lunch....
AR is definitely the future of computing for a lot of people. No more sitting at a desk to do data entry or look up info, it can be available to you while you're doing some "real work" in the real world.
Well, I always assumed that text would be somewhat closer to the eye and not floating around like it is in the HoloLens demos. For a day-to-day gadget I'd say that would be too distracting, but we'll see either way what comes, if it comes