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It makes me wonder what got mobile phones to gain critical mass when they were still whale phones. I guess it was a case of a device further reducing the fricti

It makes me wonder what got mobile phones to gain critical mass when they were still whale phones. I guess it was a case of a device further reducing the friction of an existing killer feature (voice calls). Sometimes I think the killer app of AR will not be a fancy high end headset, but rather a more fashion friendly device than Google Glass was (which I'll bet Apple will attempt), but with the similar limited functionality that reduced friction around existing smart phone killer apps (text, calling, photos, maps).

spaceman_2020 4y ago
The killer use case of smartphones was the integrated camera, combined with a large screen and touch controls to zoom in and scroll through galleries. People LOVE taking pictures - mostly of themselves.
nmfisher 4y ago
Snake
beowulfey 4y ago
There was already a market for mobile phones—car phones, suitcase phones, etc preceded the pocket sized mobile. So it was a natural progression to just making them smaller. Even phones themselves were improvements on other prior forms of communication. Every new invention builds upon what came before it in some way, right? Like, perhaps when Daguerre was developing his earliest cameras, people wondered why we would want to capture pictures like that. I think not, though, because there was already analogs in the form of paintings and things. This is completely new territory, and it feels a bit like a solution looking for a problem. There really isn’t a prior analog that I can think of! But maybe there is, and I just am missing it. But I could imagine it being transformational, if it is eventually found.
- tomp 4y ago
  It's not new territory. Plenty of prior art. An obvious one is, "bring your TV / computer screen with you". A video of me watching TV, I turn my head, the TV turns out to be just a VR projection. More fantastic, we need to be inspired by Sci-Fi. Holograms/holoprojections become possible with good-enough AR. The Expanse series is full of them. Or some form of "structure projection" onto reality. Where does this road go? What's behind this building? Where is the patient's bone broken? What does the full puzzle look like? Bottom line is, this is either a very amateur team, or a Theranos-level product.

spaceman_2020 4y ago

The killer use case of smartphones was the integrated camera, combined with a large screen and touch controls to zoom in and scroll through galleries. People LOVE taking pictures - mostly of themselves.

nmfisher 4y ago

Snake

beowulfey 4y ago

There was already a market for mobile phones—car phones, suitcase phones, etc preceded the pocket sized mobile. So it was a natural progression to just making them smaller. Even phones themselves were improvements on other prior forms of communication. Every new invention builds upon what came before it in some way, right? Like, perhaps when Daguerre was developing his earliest cameras, people wondered why we would want to capture pictures like that. I think not, though, because there was already analogs in the form of paintings and things. This is completely new territory, and it feels a bit like a solution looking for a problem. There really isn’t a prior analog that I can think of! But maybe there is, and I just am missing it. But I could imagine it being transformational, if it is eventually found.

tomp 4y ago
It's not new territory. Plenty of prior art. An obvious one is, "bring your TV / computer screen with you". A video of me watching TV, I turn my head, the TV turns out to be just a VR projection. More fantastic, we need to be inspired by Sci-Fi. Holograms/holoprojections become possible with good-enough AR. The Expanse series is full of them. Or some form of "structure projection" onto reality. Where does this road go? What's behind this building? Where is the patient's bone broken? What does the full puzzle look like? Bottom line is, this is either a very amateur team, or a Theranos-level product.