While I get your point, there is nothing false in my statement, nor misplaced. And nobody is whining. I don't like the tech much.
Got that part. You don't like the tech
Having spent the last three years working in crypto, working remotely, and heavily encouraged to dive into AR environments, I can only say from experience, they are not healthy from a social perspective.
Not healthy for you. Other's mileage may vary. Anecdotal arguments dont sway me. I can say from over 30 years of experience too much ethanol is not healthy either, but I don't call for prohibition.
We are already seeing a mass breakdown in the ability of adolescents to interact with one another. Tablets and smartphones give another social form of interaction, but often, it's highly toxic, and I'd also argue it's hugely beneficial. I've seen it time and time again, people are often glued to their smartphone displays and remain completely disconnected from everything happening around them. We laugh and joke, but it's a serious decay in our society. To remain healthy, humans by nature need to socialise and interact physically with one another. Children in today's world are finding this harder and harder to do, and I already see some of these traits in some of the younger people I employ.
While I know you are sincere, and I dont disagree with you, my response is .. 'so?' are you out there crusading against all smart phones, tablets, and computers (you left that out, but they were the start of this digital freedom to physically isolate. I am a solution orientated person, and this is a tech discussion space. Maybe its the place to bring up social concerns, maybe not, but at least bring a solution to the table or you are part of the problem.
Parents are considered "radical" and "controversial" when they ban or even limit technology to stimulate social interactions, but they are probably doing the right thing. Device addition is like any other addiction, and we should all be conscious of this.
and now we get to the meat of it. the parents are letting society down. to me its an extension of participation trophies etc. Society is letting the parents down by essentially taking away their power to parent. oh we have the legal responsibilities, but society has always been the one with the power, for centuries. this is not a new problem. So great device addiction is real. but so what is your solution?
Now, back to the Vision Pro. It's an incredible piece of technology, but let's not kid ourselves. Apple wants us to get hooked on this technology, and this is just the start. "Spacial Computing" is a marketing term for Augmented Reality. Apple wants to add the soft-touch to their hardware and make it feel as though they want us to remain in the analogue realm. But the reality is you are far from it when using this technology. It detaches you totally from reality and isolates your senses in a small field of view.
um. Apple is a business (like others) that has brought amazing tools to the general population to help us all be more productive. I am not with you if you are implying this is merely marketing on their part. Apple is just providing the tech, what we do with it is up to us. buying it is up to us. if its not useful, it will be forgotten. sorry. just not buying the evil Apple theme here.
I'm not saying all people would be affected, but it can draw introverts further away from a healthy social environment and isolate them. That's not a good thing. It can mask dangers, as outside observers have no idea what the user is actually looking at. (Children, for example, could be interacting in areas that are positively dangerous to them, and the guardian would be completely oblivious to everything).
like computers. like cell phones. like tablets. and heck social cliques and groups before tech existed. there is always ways to pull people down the wrong path. shrugs. I just dont understand why you feel the need to single out the APV in all this. and if this is NOT singular to the APV, why here?
Pornography will be incredibly toxic and incredibly dangerous to children in these environments. How does Apple plan to safeguard against that? Grooming is another area that can be hidden in this realm.
omg not pornography! you can get pornography on this device? little Johnny can see digital boobies? again, what is it about the APV that makes you think it will be any more enabling than computers, phones, and tablets?! I would almost argue, as Patel tried to slyly do so in the often honored verge review (which made me roll my eyes) that a device controlled by hand gestures, this might not actually be the premiere porn device. cough cough. look I agree back in the day we had to find a sears catalog, and the internet has made it so much easier, but again, this just isn't and APV problem only.
Now, I'm not saying it's all bad news. There are huge benefits to AR and there are studies to show PTSD can be improved through AR treatments, and there are many other benefits, but there are dangers too, and vulnerable people need to be protected.
yeah no. or at least not the hard yes you seem to imply. Yes as a society we should take care of all people, but there is in reality a balance between progress and the vulnerable. The wonderful car we all love, has been the source of countless deaths. Modern medicine for all its glory does consume resources that has to be balanced. And dont get started on guns. It's all a balance unfortunately. Not going to raise the flag, save the vulnerable, over the APV.
On the final point, I ask you not to put words in my mouth. I've never suggested at any point that we should ban technology, but there needs to be safeguards and education in place, as quite frankly, people are too ignorant to understand how negative and damaging certain technologies can be.
Fair point. But do consider this is first and foremost a space to discuss technical issues, not societal. I think there are forums for that. So just my suggestion, if you are going to wave the sky is falling down flag (is that words in your mouth, or my perspective ?) it might be more engaging if you actually voiced some pro active actions we could all take, or some solution, or something that says to me the tech guy interested 'he is not just putting down the APV and yeah, I can help do that to make things better.' otherwise, to me, its just oh no, new tech, NOW the end is here. Cellphones with easy access to porn, communication apps that facilitate the sharing of personal porn, ditto with computers and tablets (still havent figured out how to get good porn on my watch), those are one thing, but the APV, THAT is the end!
Anyway, I'm interested in trying it in my local Apple shop in a couple of months when the queues die down. I wouldn't ever buy one, though, and I would never recommend anyone get one either. It's bad enough walking into my lounge on Christmas day to find the entire family sat down glued to their phones, not talking to each other. The last thing I need is an entire family zoned out in an entirely different realm to reality. But, I suppose I will always have control of the Wi-Fi in my home...
so why did you buy them cell phones? my family knows when we have get togethers, the phones stay in the pocket unless taking pictures. Sure, they reply to texts and what not, but they keep the phones down for the most part. Because I set guidelines. likewise, this vision that everyone is going to be addicted to their APV and sit in the living room isolated from each other, is ludicrous. Mine will be at my work desk. It will travel with me to use when I am alone. like my computer (like now, I travel a lot for work). There are lots of applications that do not include ignoring others.
but cool. you will never get one. your choice. but the APV is not the beginning of the end, that probably started hundreds of 1000's of years ago when Homo sapiens started to band together in a community. and the answer is not to say dont get it. the answer is to get society to start agreeing on guidelines. we are a communal animal. we stop listening to our parents when we discover a world full of people out there.
I set guidelines for my house. I promise you, I wont allow my sons to watch pornography in front of their mother when they come visit. Not on their phones, tablets, computers, or APV if they get one. What what they do in their own bedroom is up to them. Society has to deal with that reality and by and large it is by sending out healthy messages on respecting people. Porn isnt the problem. Its people not having respect for themselves or others.
Whew. sorry everyone.
how about that battery life? (and no thats not a reference to BOB)
