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The current crappiness of AR reminds me of the early days of MP3 players. Only a few geeks had them, and it took forever to load an album over the printer port
by povertyworld 7y ago
The current crappiness of AR reminds me of the early days of MP3 players. Only a few geeks had them, and it took forever to load an album over the printer port if it didn't crash half way. Then 5 years later, everyone had an iPod.
- Illniyar 7y agoI was in highschool when MP3 players were a thing, just before and slightly after the iPod. Everyone had one. I wasn't in a particularly affluent or tech-savvy area. It was cheap to buy and just required you to know how to move files from one drive to the other in a computer - which was a skill that was very common and was actually taught at schools in my area.
- povertyworld 7y agoWell, I just remember I didn't see another person besides me with an MP3 player on public transportation for quite some time in the NYC area.
- baddox 7y agoWhat specifically looks similar to you? Consider there are many things which at some point only a few geeks had and which 5 (or 50) years later still only a few geeks had.
- povertyworld 7y agoWhen Apple announced ARKit, this culturally geeky (not a tech) coworker of mine scoffed, saying Nintendo had something like that for the DS ages ago. That's exactly how geeks responded to the iPod with the infamous CmdrTaco post ("Lame") as a prime example.
- AstralStorm 7y agoAnd mobile phones ate the dedicated players. Thus, lame. It was a product of is time with one hit feature of huge space and decent battery life for that. At a significant markup. Does ARKit have a killer feature at all? Even one, compared to competition?
- povertyworld 7y agoBut this is my point. Geeky people have a strong opinion about how much this or that implementation sucks or doesn't suck. No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones, or any other next big thing, so that makes AR look like it has half a chance to me.
- detaro 7y ago> No one has a strong opinion about VR platforms, or quantum computing, or drones Have you seen any (online or offline) discussion about those? Of course people have strong opinions on them.
- povertyworld 7y agoThe thing is I didn't have to go into an AR community online to find opinions. Some guy at my work who isn't even a tech was giving me unsolicited snarky AR opinions.
- xxxpupugo 7y agoPeople long for a MP3 player for listening music anywhere. I don't think AR has demonstrated a comparable use case that is as desirable as this.