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Oculus is a gaming device and doesn't have a "productivity" ambition. I believe it is because 3D glasses has very limited productivity application. But who know

Oculus is a gaming device and doesn't have a "productivity" ambition. I believe it is because 3D glasses has very limited productivity application. But who knows, for people who think that 13" laptop is okay for work, Vision Pro may become something better for comparable price.

wkat4242 3y ago
So horizons workspace is for... ? Or the quest pro for that matter, even though it flopped.
- SergeAx 3y ago
  Is for measuring the temperature in the ecosystem. It is very basic app produced by a skeleton team (by Meta measurements).
philwelch 3y ago
> I believe it is because 3D glasses has very limited productivity application. AR has tremendous productivity applications if the device is small and wearable enough. Imagine being up in your attic running cables and seeing a projection of the floor plan of your house so you can see where the different rooms in your house are. Or driving a car, except all the blind spots disappear and are filled in with vehicle-mounted camera feeds, with unobtrusive overlays for navigation or to highlight potential safety hazards. Imagine assembling some IKEA furniture except instead of puzzling through the instruction book, you have an app that can recognize all the pieces using machine vision and simply show you what to do. Imagine never forgetting a name or a face, because every time you see even a distant acquaintance, your glasses can run facial recognition and make their name pop up by their face in real life. Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this second.
- amelius 3y ago
  > Imagine never forgetting a name or a face, because every time you see even a distant acquaintance, your glasses can run facial recognition and make their name pop up by their face in real life. This could work if they weren't wearing a VR helmet themselves.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    I keep saying “glasses” because eventually the technology is going to get miniaturized to that extent, and you can facial recognize people wearing glasses. But you could also have a handshake protocol for the devices themselves.
- dTal 3y ago
  >Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this second. This isn't really an application of 3D glasses, it's a "diagnose my rash" smartphone app. The 3D adds nothing. Your other examples similarly lean more heavily on the "always-on camera with problematic network connection" aspect, than 3D.
  - philwelch 3y ago
    The 3D is going to make the user experience a lot more seamless though.
Xeyz0r 3y ago
Oculus has expanded its applications beyond just gaming. There are also productivity applications and tools available for Oculus devices like virtual desktops
- SergeAx 3y ago
  I perceive it as an experimental sector. They want to keep a finger in the VR productivity pie; moreover, they want to keep their fingers in all VR pies. But if you check out their primary commm channels - email newsletter, ads etc - there's nothing about productivity there. In their app store it is a small insignificant and sometimes hard to find corner.

wkat4242 3y ago

So horizons workspace is for... ? Or the quest pro for that matter, even though it flopped.

SergeAx 3y ago
Is for measuring the temperature in the ecosystem. It is very basic app produced by a skeleton team (by Meta measurements).

philwelch 3y ago

> I believe it is because 3D glasses has very limited productivity application. AR has tremendous productivity applications if the device is small and wearable enough. Imagine being up in your attic running cables and seeing a projection of the floor plan of your house so you can see where the different rooms in your house are. Or driving a car, except all the blind spots disappear and are filled in with vehicle-mounted camera feeds, with unobtrusive overlays for navigation or to highlight potential safety hazards. Imagine assembling some IKEA furniture except instead of puzzling through the instruction book, you have an app that can recognize all the pieces using machine vision and simply show you what to do. Imagine never forgetting a name or a face, because every time you see even a distant acquaintance, your glasses can run facial recognition and make their name pop up by their face in real life. Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this second.

amelius 3y ago
> Imagine never forgetting a name or a face, because every time you see even a distant acquaintance, your glasses can run facial recognition and make their name pop up by their face in real life. This could work if they weren't wearing a VR helmet themselves.
- philwelch 3y ago
  I keep saying “glasses” because eventually the technology is going to get miniaturized to that extent, and you can facial recognize people wearing glasses. But you could also have a handshake protocol for the devices themselves.
dTal 3y ago
>Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this second. This isn't really an application of 3D glasses, it's a "diagnose my rash" smartphone app. The 3D adds nothing. Your other examples similarly lean more heavily on the "always-on camera with problematic network connection" aspect, than 3D.
- philwelch 3y ago
  The 3D is going to make the user experience a lot more seamless though.

Xeyz0r 3y ago

Oculus has expanded its applications beyond just gaming. There are also productivity applications and tools available for Oculus devices like virtual desktops

SergeAx 3y ago
I perceive it as an experimental sector. They want to keep a finger in the VR productivity pie; moreover, they want to keep their fingers in all VR pies. But if you check out their primary commm channels - email newsletter, ads etc - there's nothing about productivity there. In their app store it is a small insignificant and sometimes hard to find corner.