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Ok but if you are looking through that small display and you are seeing digital labels placed on real items that you are looking at, how is that not augmented
by everly 6y ago
Ok but if you are looking through that small display and you are seeing digital labels placed on real items that you are looking at, how is that not augmented reality?
Like I said, there’s definitely overlap but you’re way underselling some key features. Smartwatch also can’t take a photo of whatever you’re looking at simply by winking.
- jayd16 6y ago>how is that not augmented reality Again, if that's how you want to define augmented reality then we already did it much better on phones. A smart watch achieves the goal of a passive HUD better than Glass did. Whats left is a head mounted camera and I don't find that very compelling. The tradeoff between wearing glasses and having a much worse camera vs not having to use your hands to shoot a photo was not good enough in that device. I mean, you're free to like it. You have to admit that its not just me who thought Glass did not have enough compelling features. Hasn't the market spoken for Glass?
- everly 6y agoI wouldn’t say the market has spoken for glass. It was underpowered, expensive, and ahead of its time (not to mention stigmatized socially). Kinda like saying the market had spoken for the iPad because the Newton wasn’t successful. I agree that a smartwatch is a better passive HUD (although it is not really “heads up”...), but there was certainly more functionality in the glass than passive HUD + head mounted camera. I’m curious if you bought one?
- jayd16 6y ago>I’m curious if you bought one? Indeed I did.