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AR glasses will hit a wall but passthrough AR will be converged on rapidly. Starting 2022
by gfodor 5y ago
AR glasses will hit a wall but passthrough AR will be converged on rapidly. Starting 2022
- oezi 5y agoAny particular insight why 2022? Hololens 2 has shown that it isn't so easy to advance the field. I don't think an Apple device is forthcoming or likely to leapfrog.
- alasdair_ 5y ago> Any particular insight why 2022? Facebook, Apple and others are releasing their first AR glasses then.
- m0zg 5y agoAnd there will be approximately zero non-gimmick software for them until at least 2032, if it ever materializes at all.
- gfodor 5y agoAR "FaceTime" (beaming in an avatar of another person to spend time with) will be a killer app.
- m0zg 5y agoBut you aren't "spending time" with that person. You're spending time with that person's poorly rendered avatar. You can't even hear them properly. You can't see them at all. You can't touch them or read a lot of the nonverbal cues. And for the privilege of not being in their presence, you also need to pay several hundred (if not thousands, this being Apple) dollars, and both sides need to use Apple products. I very strongly suspect that all but the most ardent Apple fans will pass on this generous offer.
- gfodor 5y agoPassthrough AR isn't glasses AR, and is much more likely to be rapidly made capable. Lynx-R launches in Q1, and Meta's and Apple's headsets will likely use passthrough AR next year. https://lynx-r.com/ https://lynx-r.com/
- oezi 5y agoI definitely hope for something novel with video see-through HMDs as they used to call them in 2002 [1] when I last worked on them. Latency wasn't solved last I checked and viewpoint offset is still an issue that throws users off. [1] https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/273/730/ar_table_tennis_a_video_based_augmented_reality_sports_game.pdf https://static.aminer.org/pdf/PDF/000/273/730/ar_table_tenni...
- gfodor 5y agoLatency is pretty good on Quest 1 - I haven't tried Quest 2. Looking forward to getting a Lynx to gauge how close we are to something good.