Been thinking about augmented reality stuff lately, has anyone else had experience with AR headsets or smart glasses (aside from the Apple Vision Pro)? Are they just overpriced gimmicks with 6 year old hardware or do they have a use case for the average person? Back when Google Glass was a thing I remember liking the idea a lot due to it being unobtrusive and small but with the Vision Pro I'm beginning to think that future models are going to be more like VR headsets rather than a small add-on.
The AR headset/smart glasses thread
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I did get a Hololens demo. It wasn't ready for me at the time even to play with, but I do remember pointedly remarking that once Apple clones it and sticks blonde hair on it / makes it as idiot resistant as they do with everything else they make, it will become ubiquitous unless Microsoft iterates on it far faster than they did with WP - and I had the Apple release timeframe at 2020-ish, since obviously no-one knew about the C yet.
My current opinion is that Apple is committed, and while you see a lot of naysayers about it even within the Applezombie fandom right now, but that will change when Apple debuts a far more socially acceptable (and slightly cheaper) version 2 or 3...
...And it will eventually replace the iPhone.
And we will sleepwalk even more towards the horrifying dystopia that will seem completely normal to the 20something that grow up in it.
I increasingly hate being right even though I've historically bet on this stuff with my own money, and I have a very nasty feeling I'll be right again.
My current opinion is that Apple is committed, and while you see a lot of naysayers about it even within the Applezombie fandom right now, but that will change when Apple debuts a far more socially acceptable (and slightly cheaper) version 2 or 3...
...And it will eventually replace the iPhone.
And we will sleepwalk even more towards the horrifying dystopia that will seem completely normal to the 20something that grow up in it.
I increasingly hate being right even though I've historically bet on this stuff with my own money, and I have a very nasty feeling I'll be right again.
I haven't been interested enough to buy anything yet myself despite some minor interest for gaming. Basically I just don't think there is enough real 'meat' on the bone yet for actual daily use and the products are not good enough to make them an easy buy. From what I read, the most common use for them so far is basically just porn or other 'in your face' content consumption (watching movies on a plane etc.). Some gaming but that runs out of steam quickly due to the limited interactivity (movement issues) and limited content. If Apple keeps pushing money into it as a whole concept, we might get to a usable and useful ecosystem of VR/AR products and content but it is pretty early days still from what I have seen.