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The cell phone analogy is appropriate. This is first generation tech. Within 30 years it will be amazing and unobtrusive. Think eyeglasses or contact lenses
by edoo 8y ago
The cell phone analogy is appropriate. This is first generation tech. Within 30 years it will be amazing and unobtrusive. Think eyeglasses or contact lenses with photo realistic rendering. I think it will be as important as the radio and TV was in shaping society both commercially and privately.
- pg_bot 8y ago"Within 30 years... it will be as important as the radio and TV was in shaping society both commercially and privately" Care to make your prediction interesting? I'd be willing to take the opposite side of that bet.
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- pg_bot 8y agoI'd be willing to wager $500, if anyone wants to take the other side.
- taytus 8y agoThe difference is that the iPhone was revolutionary. Yeah, no copy/paste and no app store on V 1.0 but it was a game changer from the beginning.
- tokyodude 8y agoThere are over 15 years of PDAs before the iPhone. It didn't appear out of thin air. It was an evolution from Newton->Palm Pilot->Clie->Windows CE PDAs->Sony Clie->iPhone Yes, it was the one that got everything right and it did bring about a revolution but it was evolutional step. It shipped with cellular data (all previous PDAs it was optional). It had an interface designed for a finger rather than a stylus. But, if you were a geek and had PDA from 1995 though 2007 you had already had a PDA in your pocket, where already sending emails from your pocket, browsing the internet, downloading apps, etc... AR will follow some similar progression. Today's AR is too large (same as Newton), with a bad display (same as Newton), too expensive (same as Newton), crappy OS (same as Newton). But someone will get it right eventually and bring about an AR revolution.
- taytus 8y agoI was coding apps for Windows CE :) Impossible to disagree with you. But, using your own words: " it was the one that got everything right"... That for me is what made the magic.
- emj 8y agoThe magic came from getting the important things right, the software was amazing for demo purpose, which is what most people want anyway.
- praptak 8y agoYeah, maybe, someone, somewhere, will figure it out like Apple did with smartphones. The article does not dispute that. It just says that it probably won't be this company.
- SahAssar 8y agoThe problem is that is what magic leap was promising, and so far they have severely under-delivered.
- milankovic 8y agoIt was a scam from day one, and Gizmodo et al are only catching up now..