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I think the idea is to combine glasses projecting an image to your eyes with body sensors for gesturing (watch?) and you won't need a screen anymore.

by babesh 10y ago

BillinghamJ 10y ago
Body sensors have the same problem as talking to your phone I think.
hyperpallium 10y ago
Yet google glass wasn't popular, partly because of camera-privacy, partly because it couldn't block light, only add it (though Magic Leap has apparently solved this latter problem.) Tim Cook also pooh-poohed headsup displays as a barrier between people, instead of connecting them. But, since earplugs and people checking their phones already disconnect people, this seems like diversionary bs to me. Apple is surely working on this, as they work on many things. Small displays are the problem, bigger phones are popular despite their awkwardness. Headsup displays solve both: large display, out of the way. Not sure about input; gesturing to yourself is going to look even crazier than talking to yourself.
- kderbe 10y ago
  Tim Cook also poo-pooed headsup displays That sounds painful. (The word you are looking for is pooh-poohed.)
  - hyperpallium 10y ago
    thanks, it didn't seem quite right
  - cgvgffyv 10y ago
    How is that a word? Are we pre-schoolers now? Good lord.
- kwhitefoot 10y ago
  > Not sure about input; gesturing to yourself is going to look even crazier than talking to yourself. In the early seventies I used to carry my Philips portable cassette player and headphones everywhere, people thought I was crazy until Akio Morita had the same idea and got Sony to create the Walkman. Now people wear headphones in the street and hardly anyone thinks about it at all. My point is that what you think is crazy now might well be normal in ten years time, or perhaps even tomorrow.
kbutler 10y ago
As someone who wore glasses for many years before moving to contacts, I have no desire to wear glasses to replace a pocketable display.
skeet 10y ago
To me, the contact lens type HUD in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You) feels like the ideal solution as it's discreet. Wonder if it's technically possible...

I think the idea is to combine glasses projecting an image to your eyes with body sensors for gesturing (watch?) and you won't need a screen anymore.

by babesh 10y ago

I think the idea is to combine glasses projecting an image to your eyes with body sensors for gesturing (watch?) and you won't need a screen anymore.

BillinghamJ 10y ago

Body sensors have the same problem as talking to your phone I think.

hyperpallium 10y ago

Yet google glass wasn't popular, partly because of camera-privacy, partly because it couldn't block light, only add it (though Magic Leap has apparently solved this latter problem.) Tim Cook also pooh-poohed headsup displays as a barrier between people, instead of connecting them. But, since earplugs and people checking their phones already disconnect people, this seems like diversionary bs to me. Apple is surely working on this, as they work on many things. Small displays are the problem, bigger phones are popular despite their awkwardness. Headsup displays solve both: large display, out of the way. Not sure about input; gesturing to yourself is going to look even crazier than talking to yourself.

kderbe 10y ago
Tim Cook also poo-pooed headsup displays That sounds painful. (The word you are looking for is pooh-poohed.)
- hyperpallium 10y ago
  thanks, it didn't seem quite right
- cgvgffyv 10y ago
  How is that a word? Are we pre-schoolers now? Good lord.
kwhitefoot 10y ago
> Not sure about input; gesturing to yourself is going to look even crazier than talking to yourself. In the early seventies I used to carry my Philips portable cassette player and headphones everywhere, people thought I was crazy until Akio Morita had the same idea and got Sony to create the Walkman. Now people wear headphones in the street and hardly anyone thinks about it at all. My point is that what you think is crazy now might well be normal in ten years time, or perhaps even tomorrow.

kbutler 10y ago

As someone who wore glasses for many years before moving to contacts, I have no desire to wear glasses to replace a pocketable display.

skeet 10y ago

To me, the contact lens type HUD in the Black Mirror episode "The Entire History of You" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You) feels like the ideal solution as it's discreet. Wonder if it's technically possible...