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What 'big vision'? There are no indications that Meta has given serious thought to actually using the Quest as a computer rather than just a game console. (I'm

What 'big vision'? There are no indications that Meta has given serious thought to actually using the Quest as a computer rather than just a game console. (I'm counting full immersion meeting apps and Horizon World under 'games', since they're still basically just toy functionality.)

flax 3y ago
Article was mostly about the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses as AR people can actually adopt and use now, vs Apple's AR you will be able to do at some point, but right now requires completely impractical and doofy hardware. Personally, I'm hoping Brilliant comes from behind and laps everyone. The tech is not particularly ambitious (more HUD than AR), but the open source philosophy is by far the best way to go.
- partiallypro 3y ago
  If the Ray Ban Meta get a small little screen in the next generation, even if it's $50-$100 more, I'll buy them. I still might buy the current generation once summer rolls around and I actually need sunglasses.
- ribosometronome 3y ago
  >Ray Ban Meta smart glasses as AR They've got the same AR as every other pair of sunglasses, tinted lenses, plus a camera and a speaker, no? The comparison to the Vision Pro, right now, makes about as much sense as comparing the glasses to AirPods.
dougmwne 3y ago
This is not true. Meta has done a significant amount of work on a range of productivity and general computing use cases. They are clearly exploring VR/AR as a full platform, not just a game console. They have almost feature by feature parity with the Vision Pro, plus a game console on top of that. A few examples: Their past 2 headsets have had high quality passthrough cameras for MR. Quest Pro was specifically focused on productivity in a very similar way to the Vision Pro. 2d apps are supported and quite a few are available including MS Office apps, social media and messaging apps. I don’t know what you mean by calling desktop mirroring apps a toy since the MacBook screen mirroring is exactly one of the hallmark Vision Pro features and apps like Immersed, Virtual Desktop and Horizon workrooms do the same thing in MR or VR. There’s keyboard and mouse support for 2d productivity and screen sharing just like Vision Pro. They have a a corporate sales program that includes remote device management specifically for corporate and industrial use cases. And there been quite a lot of research work on codec avatars in virtual meetings that are extremely similar to Vision Pro. This is one thing that Apple seems to be ahead of Meta on.

flax 3y ago

Article was mostly about the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses as AR people can actually adopt and use now, vs Apple's AR you will be able to do at some point, but right now requires completely impractical and doofy hardware. Personally, I'm hoping Brilliant comes from behind and laps everyone. The tech is not particularly ambitious (more HUD than AR), but the open source philosophy is by far the best way to go.

partiallypro 3y ago
If the Ray Ban Meta get a small little screen in the next generation, even if it's $50-$100 more, I'll buy them. I still might buy the current generation once summer rolls around and I actually need sunglasses.
ribosometronome 3y ago
>Ray Ban Meta smart glasses as AR They've got the same AR as every other pair of sunglasses, tinted lenses, plus a camera and a speaker, no? The comparison to the Vision Pro, right now, makes about as much sense as comparing the glasses to AirPods.

dougmwne 3y ago

This is not true. Meta has done a significant amount of work on a range of productivity and general computing use cases. They are clearly exploring VR/AR as a full platform, not just a game console. They have almost feature by feature parity with the Vision Pro, plus a game console on top of that. A few examples: Their past 2 headsets have had high quality passthrough cameras for MR. Quest Pro was specifically focused on productivity in a very similar way to the Vision Pro. 2d apps are supported and quite a few are available including MS Office apps, social media and messaging apps. I don’t know what you mean by calling desktop mirroring apps a toy since the MacBook screen mirroring is exactly one of the hallmark Vision Pro features and apps like Immersed, Virtual Desktop and Horizon workrooms do the same thing in MR or VR. There’s keyboard and mouse support for 2d productivity and screen sharing just like Vision Pro. They have a a corporate sales program that includes remote device management specifically for corporate and industrial use cases. And there been quite a lot of research work on codec avatars in virtual meetings that are extremely similar to Vision Pro. This is one thing that Apple seems to be ahead of Meta on.