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I feel like they have struck gold with the Meta Ray-ban glasses. Perfect form factor, looks cool, not obtrusive, has actual features that people want to use. Th
by paxys 2y ago
I feel like they have struck gold with the Meta Ray-ban glasses. Perfect form factor, looks cool, not obtrusive, has actual features that people want to use. That IMO is the future of wearables + AR/VR + AI, not a bulky headset.
- jowday 2y agoEvery company knows this, the problem is that you can’t fit the compute you need for AR/VR + AI into a form factor like this, at least not right now.
- cdchn 2y agoI don't think you'll ever be able to. Maybe not for decades for AR/VR. The AI stuff is cool; you can offload that, but mostly they'll just be a glorified camera mount and headphones for the actual 'glasses.'
- redundantly 2y agoYour comment won't age well.
- cdchn 2y agoGuess we'll see in a few decades. People thought VR was on the brink of mass market breakthrough in the 90s too.
- p1necone 2y agoYou already can in something the size of an old cassette walkman, run an extra flexible USB c cable to the glasses or something and problem solved
- cdchn 2y agoThe offloading is easy, I don't think the optical aspects of breakthrough VR/AR will be overcome for quite a while.
- p1necone 2y ago(phones are an obvious choice but I suspect you could jam significantly more power into the same form factor if you didn't need screen, speakers, mobile modem etc)
- HDThoreaun 2y agoIntels next gen iGPU has has similar benchmarks to a 3080. Compute is still scaling incredibly quickly. I think the optical problem will end up taking much longer than compute.
- candiddevmike 2y agoWhy can't the glasses be dumb displays streamed to by my phone?
- nprateem 2y agoBecause then you don't get to break the Android/Apple duopoly
- dboreham 2y agoThe same thing happened with previous technologies. Steve Jobs didn't "invent the smartphone" -- he just made a smartphone at the time when the underlying tech (VLSI, displays, WLAN, WWAN) got to the point where it could fit in a pocket and have battery life of a day. Similarly he didn't invent the MP3 player. He made one at the point when Toshiba were able to manufacture a very small, low power hard drive that meant you could get more than 10 songs on one.
- mhh__ 2y agoSteve Jobs and invention is always sort of looking at the problem backwards. He could enunciate a concept and knew when to put the boot down to enforce his taste.
- jayd16 2y agoThey're working from both ends. VR/Passthrough content on a device with a screen and then the ideal form factor on the Raybans. The goal is to merge them. Its still TBD on when and if that's possible.
- jasonjamerson 2y agoI would buy this today if it filmed horizontal video.
- asadotzler 2y agoBut the Ray-bans aren't AR or VR. They're just glasses with a camera, microphone, and speakers plus connectivity for streaming the camera's feed. How is that AR or VR in any way?
- paxys 2y agoIf I'm going about my day and a voice in my ear gives me context about my surroundings, identifies people and objects, answers questions, tells me which direction I need to walk in, records and live streams my POV and more, that's AR. The experience doesn't always have to be visual.
- teddyh 2y agoThat’s a phone. You are describing a smartphone. Does this make all phones “AR” devices?
- loeg 2y agoThis you? https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/01/36/71/61/1000_F_136716109_nKVAugc5Nzjpj9iuCpMzeNctkCZuby9F.jpg https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/01/36/71/61/1000_F_136716109_nK... Glasses are a fundamentally different UX than a smartphone.
- teddyh 2y agoPut your phone in a shirt pocket, its camera visible. Add headphones (wired or bluetooth). Done. The question remains: Does an audio-only interface qualify as “AR”?
- gmueckl 2y agoYes! The true magic of AR is a computer understanding the user's real wolrd context. The UX modality is secondary.
- Izkata 2y ago
- LZ_Khan 2y agoHave you seen the snap glasses. Meta glasses aint goin anywhere
- aprilthird2021 2y agoPretty sure the Meta glasses routinely sell out and the Spectacles had a hard time selling. Maybe they both sell them at a loss, who knows