If they struggle figuring out the market for Vision Pro I’m not sure how they can succeed with AR glasses.
I don’t know if that’s the case. The issue with the VisionPro was it was more VR than AR. yes I know it was translucent but look at the headset. Looked like an oculus, clunky and blocked out a lot of your view naturally.
True AR will will be a breakthrough because it can add things seamlessly inline to your view without being obtrusive or just with a pair of natural looking glasses.
Imagine getting walking/driving directions overlaid right in your field of vision, or be at a sports game and have stats pop up above the players, or at a party and have names and LinkedIn bios displayed next to a person so you never forget. Another idea is the weather, looking up at the clouds, wondering if it is gonna rain and it overlays a Doppler radar at the right angle so you see which direction it’s going.
That’s where the goal of AR is going and it won’t really work out until they make it integrated more naturally and not just a massive head goggle.
All of these are reasons why Google Glass failed. No one wants some robot scanning everyone’s face and reporting their location to some corporation’s database in real time so that the NSA can extract that data and give it to ICE, for example.
AR seems cool but it’s a fucking dystopian nightmare.
I’m pretty sure all these tech companies want to research glasses so much because it’s the last real estate before reading your thoughts with a wifi hat. If it can track eye movements, pupil dilation, hear you, etc then it basically knows everything about you as a human commodity. Cell phones have tracking and browsing data but glasses offer your mind to advertising. Knowing what you look at, who you talk with, how you browse, what you delete before retyping a message, your bank pin, anything that you can see.
I’d rather have a Bluetooth earpiece with AI/google assistant/alexa thst does stuff when I want it. What’s the weather in 4 hours? Do I have anything in my calendar today? Where is the nearest gas station? I don’t want a chess winning butt plug that tracks my bowel movements and sells me toilet paper.
part of why the vision pro failed was how walled off its hardware was for software development. Nobody has access to eye movements unless there’s a gesture apparently
They had a ton of privacy constraints they put up, which are healthy but unfortunately make it tough to make anything cool. I presume they did that in part to prevent “unskippable, you must be looking” type ads and the other issues you brought up
The worst part is all these products suck so bad, it never works like you want it to and it has weird limitations and restrictions that really shouldn’t be there. So it isn’t even like selling your soul to the devil, but getting what you wished for. It’s just bad news all around.
