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Google Glass was pretty locked down too iirc. Still was a neat device.
by j45 2y ago
Google Glass was pretty locked down too iirc. Still was a neat device.
- Rinzler89 2y agoGoogle Glasses were significantly lighter and cheaper since they had the same form factor as regular glasses people wear, not some heavy Robocop headset tethered to a brick in your pocket. How Apple imagined that clunky form factor would be appealing to general consumers outside the most avid afluent fans is beyond me. If they wanted it to be a devkit they should have just market it and sold it at a masive discount directly to app developers unlocked with no strictions so they can experiment in finding that "killer app". Unfortunately Apple's way too corporate, proud and stuck up to think liberally like that. Google didn't hide the fat that Glasses was mostly a devkit for tinkerers and pretend it was a ready-to-market product, and it served that purpose for that niche.
- CamperBob2 2y agoGoogle Glass was pretty locked down too iirc And it's gone, too. Gee, I wonder if there's a pattern here.
- verdverm 2y agoHololens 2 was the best experience of all of them, also shut down The issue is a hardware miniaturization one, I used think whoever creates the first real smart glasses is in an advantageous position, but the likes of Apple and Google can likely roll their own quickly once that time draws near. They already own the software stacks, which is really what you want to own. AR glasses will have dozens of comparable vendors when they break the wall down
- delta_p_delta_x 2y agoRegardless of locked-down-ness, I think Google Glass—and if it had seen continued development, real spectacles with some sort of miniaturised electronics and a HUD on the lenses—would've been so much more useful than any giant, heavy VR headset.