Video: A First Look at visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro

[NY Guitarist]

Name one. The processor, the battery, the cameras, the emitters… the list goes on and on. The reality is that these systems are NOT infinitely miniaturizable. There’s a limit on how small you can make any of them. And then there’s heat management. Know how your iPhone gets hot when you do really intensive things on it? How’s that going to work on your FACE?

I mean, seriously. The issues here couldn’t be more blatant. The notion that this can be implemented in a standard size glasses frame is simply unrealistic.

Clearly you didn't read my posts thoroughly or didn't comprehend.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Tell that to Apple who has actively been working on that exact product for years. That is all.

Prove it.

 

[Surf Monkey]

Clearly you didn't read my posts thoroughly or didn't comprehend.

I did. I see you still have no real rebuttal.

 

[NY Guitarist]

I’m speculating about scenarios that could change the approach to wearable spatial computing devices. I welcome construction discussion to that end, I don’t have anything to prove. Negative and limited thinking is a dead end and doesn’t interest me at all.

Technology will not stop evolving and improving. Wearable technology devices, such as the Apple Watch, are here to stay. Technology progresses, i.e. iPhones now have Satellite communications capability.

Camera sensors have continuously increased in pixel density year after year. It’s not hard to imagine reducing the size of the sensor as resolution increases.

As I mentioned in a previous post, perhaps an iPhone could drive the wearable AVP, it’s already tethered to a battery pack so it’s not hard to imagine processing and battery power being handled by an iPhone. It might even be more attractive to consumers to enhance their iPhone ownership experience.

I think the AVP can, and will, evolve and improve, as the history of technology has demonstrated. Other's constructive thoughts welcome and encouraged.

 

[NY Guitarist]

Negative and limited thinking is a dead end and doesn’t interest me at all.

If you don't agree with this idea then feel free to not read/comment/react, otherwise YOU are the problem.

 

[Surf Monkey]

One needs to be sensitive to what constitutes constructive criticism and what doesn’t. Pointing out that there are many very real physical limits to how small you can make these types of complex systems is constructive criticism. It’s unrealistic to expect this to be implemented in a pair of glasses. There’s not enough room. Even if you add a cord that goes to an iPhone, there’s still not enough room for cameras, screens, microphones, emitters, battery, processors and so forth.

And really, when you examine that further, consider this: your eye is optimized by evolution to provide you with fairly accurate vision of the world around you. Look how big the lens and “sensor” is in your eye. To swap that for a camera that you can fit a dozen of into an AVP seems like a poor trade off, let alone the literally microscopic lenses that would be required for the kind of miniaturization you’re talking about. If you’ve ever used a pinhole camera you know what I’m taking about. It takes a long time for an aperture that small to gather enough light.

All I’m saying is that there are severe physical size limitations at play and there always will be.