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The watch has a very small display surface. Glasses can potentially use your whole field of vision. You could display an entire room full of monitors rendering
by grumple 4y ago
The watch has a very small display surface. Glasses can potentially use your whole field of vision. You could display an entire room full of monitors rendering full size web browsers and other applications. So there's a huge difference in what info you could see.
- vineyardmike 4y agoI don’t think “data on the fly” and “display a room full of web browsers” has a lot of overlap. The NReal is a “full vision(ish)” glasses, so that’s available, but you probably couldn’t produce that wire-free. It it’s doable if you’re willing to plug-in when needed (so not on the fly). You could do apple-watch-in-the-eye (Google glass basically) but that probably couldn’t sustain browsers or monitor images for long. It would work for things like notifications though… which the watches already do.
- grumple 4y agoYou can do a lot more with the ability to display using the whole field of vision. That's just a fact. If you can also use better control systems (gestures, etc) and interact with a visual environment those are also big benefits. You're right that the glasses form factor can't get near that right now, but we know that headsets can (like the Quest). I am also of the opinion that Apple really messed up the watch ecosystem by locking it down so much. They prevented us from fully utilizing web browsing, text messaging, wouldn't allow spotify streaming for years, etc, not because of the watch being incapable, but because they wanted to maintain their walled garden and didn't trust watch owners to be able to type on a watch. If they allowed these things the watch would have been much more successful.