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I don't really want/need AR. I don't want a camera, I don't need object tracking, I do not need to augment what is in front of me. What I would buy today is gl

I don't really want/need AR. I don't want a camera, I don't need object tracking, I do not need to augment what is in front of me. What I would buy today is glasses that allowed an overlay. Give me a screen and an API and let me tether it to my phone and push pixels and I'd buy that immediately.

bserge 5y ago
No deal, if you can't see unblockable ads, you don't get a $1000 pair of high tech glasses.
- nxpnsv 5y ago
  I would buy AR glasses that censored ads though :)
marcodiego 5y ago
> What I would buy today is glasses that allowed an overlay. Give me a screen and an API and let me tether it to my phone and push pixels and I'd buy that immediately. An overlay was the google glass promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw
napier 5y ago
We’ve had the technology for delivering glasses with a screen overlay at reasonable cost and in unobtrusive lightweight form factor for a few years now. No idea why there’s nothing like it on the market. I wonder if it’s something that could be thrown together from off the shelf components at this point?
- jayd16 5y ago
  Because head locked huds are terrible in real life. You really do wanr the camera for motion tracking and world-pinned objects.
  - onion2k 5y ago
    That's only true if you want to display information relative to the world. If you only want to display information relative to the user then you don't need those things. Eg displaying map directions that align with world objects requires world-pinning. Displaying notifications that are relative to the user regardless of where they're looking doesn't. There's a strong argument in favour of 'version 0' of a HUD product being a simple dumb overlay with no fancy stuff, simply to get a high resolution HUD product working. Other sensor inputs could be added later.
    - jayd16 5y ago
      No it's not. Head locked huds are simply very uncomfortable. You want to move you head to look at them and can't. It just doesn't work.
jayd16 5y ago
You can get that now with NReal and a few other glasses. ...But you really do want the camera and tracking so you have input and overlays that aren't head locked. Head locked overlays are very hard to read.

bserge 5y ago

No deal, if you can't see unblockable ads, you don't get a $1000 pair of high tech glasses.

nxpnsv 5y ago
I would buy AR glasses that censored ads though :)

marcodiego 5y ago

> What I would buy today is glasses that allowed an overlay. Give me a screen and an API and let me tether it to my phone and push pixels and I'd buy that immediately. An overlay was the google glass promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw

napier 5y ago

We’ve had the technology for delivering glasses with a screen overlay at reasonable cost and in unobtrusive lightweight form factor for a few years now. No idea why there’s nothing like it on the market. I wonder if it’s something that could be thrown together from off the shelf components at this point?

jayd16 5y ago
Because head locked huds are terrible in real life. You really do wanr the camera for motion tracking and world-pinned objects.
- onion2k 5y ago
  That's only true if you want to display information relative to the world. If you only want to display information relative to the user then you don't need those things. Eg displaying map directions that align with world objects requires world-pinning. Displaying notifications that are relative to the user regardless of where they're looking doesn't. There's a strong argument in favour of 'version 0' of a HUD product being a simple dumb overlay with no fancy stuff, simply to get a high resolution HUD product working. Other sensor inputs could be added later.
  - jayd16 5y ago
    No it's not. Head locked huds are simply very uncomfortable. You want to move you head to look at them and can't. It just doesn't work.

jayd16 5y ago

You can get that now with NReal and a few other glasses. ...But you really do want the camera and tracking so you have input and overlays that aren't head locked. Head locked overlays are very hard to read.