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I wonder if anyone will feel brave enough to wear this on a bike... Until the time they're arrested for using a smartphone while biking, or for relying on the
by tromp 3y ago
I wonder if anyone will feel brave enough to wear this on a bike...
Until the time they're arrested for using a smartphone while biking,
or for relying on the computer not to malfunction just to avoid riding blind.
- swader999 3y agoSkiing was what I was wondering.
- cogogo 3y agoSpecialized AR goggles exist. Not for me but I guess I can understand the appeal to some. https://ostloong.com/sirius/ https://ostloong.com/sirius/
- jsjohnst 3y agoRecon Jet made an HMD that is sorta similar to Google Glass, but designed more like ski goggles / sunglasses. One of its use cases when it came out around ten years ago was skiing, but I never used it for that. I mainly used mine biking with its ANT+ integration.
- chasd00 3y agoOr driving. It would interesting to have directions overlaid on the view of the road. The exit I need to take could be outlined and highlighted for example.
- Turskarama 3y agoUntil it crashes, and then you crash. It's not proper AR, It's VR with passthrough which means it's purely active. If it fails it goes black.
- scarface_74 3y agoThere is a separate processing path for the video pass through that is suppose to be distinct from the OS. If one crashes the other shouldn’t. Yes I know the difference between in theory and practice .
- bee_rider 3y agoI can’t imagine putting a CPU as complicated as the M2 in between my eyeballs and the road. It is too big and complicated. I guess we don’t really know what the R1 does. It is hypothetically possible that there’s a failsafe road-eyeball path just goes through that chip, maybe that could be made as reliable as various other critical computers…
- Turskarama 3y agoIt's not as failsafe as glass. I guarantee you Mercedes or Lamborghini would _love_ to have a fully enclosed interior with screens instead of windows, but it's a critical safety feature and anything that makes it less likely to work is just not happening.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoWasn’t there a vampire movie maybe fifteen years ago, where the vampires drove fully enclosed cars via camera during the day? Daybreakers?
- bee_rider 3y agoWe’re basically converging on fully enclosed interiors anyway, just without the VR headset (the pillars for the windows are ridiculous nowadays). Maybe the argument could be made that it’d be safer for everyone (especially pedestrians waiting at crosswalks) if drivers had a headset system. Getting rid of the windows and making the headset totally necessary seems like riskier proposition though. For the Apple thing on a normal car, the backup option of taking off the headset is always there (assuming sufficient warning can be given before a failure, which is a big assumption, but should be doable). Drive-by-wire systems exist, so it isn’t as if replacing some normally mechanical steps with electronics is impossible. The electronics just need to be made sufficiently reliable.
- flir 3y agoI think that's both inevitable and terrifying.
- brandall10 3y agoI'm thinking it might have an onboard battery that affords a few minutes after the current battery is depleted to allow hot swaps. Not a great solution to using these in such situations, because bugs as you say, but it might be a feature that allows people to feel so daring. Oof.