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No one but a Dukakis dork is going wear anything remotely like this in public. If they're not reduced to contact lenses or something unobtrusive, then they're n
by errcorrectcode 5y ago
No one but a Dukakis dork is going wear anything remotely like this in public. If they're not reduced to contact lenses or something unobtrusive, then they're not an improvement over Glass, but a step backwards.
- giobox 5y agoYou might well be right, but a lot of people felt that way about PDAs in the 90s; "no one but a Dukakis dork is going to walk down the street, nose buried in a tiny screen"... At least for the PDA, the form factor didn't need to shift all that much to go from relatively nerdy niche accessory to daily carry for billions (smartphone). If anything, my current massive screen phone is even more ungainly than many PDA models were. If it resembles a sleeping mask like the more stylish mockup from The Information shown further down the linked page, I can absolutely picture people in business class flights using these things eventually, ungainly as it is, if the use cases/features are compelling enough. If it is high-res enough to provide a compelling portable virtual multi-desktop experience, I imagine some software developers might be interested too. Personally I'd love to have a multi-monitor dev environment that slips into a pocket, something none of the current mainstream headsets have had the resolution to do well yet (IMO). I don't think anyone, at Apple or Meta too, thinks these first gen AR/VR products are going to be mainstream successes yet either though. We are still in the early PDA phase of this thing. Zuck has publicly said as much; I imagine Apple may tread a similar line when the reveal happens.