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> In augmented reality, interface elements must coexist with the physical world. They can't be opaque rectangles that block your view. They need to be transluce
by sneak 1y ago
> In augmented reality, interface elements must coexist with the physical world. They can't be opaque rectangles that block your view. They need to be translucent, layered, and contextually aware.
This isn’t true. You’re never going to want your browser, editor, or Slack window to be translucent.
…or your movie playback window, or Instagram, or your ebook reader, for that matter.
- XorNot 1y agoThe lack of stroke outlining of text on transparency is also just going to make it unreadable particular if the background has motion in it (so worse for AR).
- willquack 1y ago> You’re never going to want your browser, editor, or Slack window to be translucent. r/unixporn disagrees
- candiddevmike 1y agoMaybe Apple designers should stop hanging out there and reread WCAG
- bigyabai 1y agor/unixporn disagrees with most HIGs.
- kepano 1y agoI agree with your core sentiment but unfortunately we don't have a mass-producible display technology that allows for black pixels in a see-through optic (yet). It's going to be really hard to achieve. Pass-through is the only AR approach that currently allows black pixels, but it has uncomfortable limitations compared to a see-through optic. https://stephango.com/black-pixels https://stephango.com/black-pixels
- polyomino 1y agoLiquid glass design paradigm only works on reprojected displays. Additive displays can't replicate the distortions along the edges of the elements for both optical focus reasons and because you can see through the element.
- kepano 1y agoThat's pretty much the conclusion of my article linked above, at least short term. When I worked on that AR device we experimented with a segmented electrochromic layer that could allow a mixture of see-through and pass-through, but it's far from mass-producible, and probably a dead-end approach for what Apple is trying to do.
- YeahThisIsMe 1y agoYou absolutely did want all of that until the novelty of Windows Aero wore off. Of course, now that Apple has invented it, it will be completely different.
- adriand 1y agoI see my kid doing homework and he’s got YouTube open on his other monitor. I don’t know how that constitutes “working” but maybe in the future, you will indeed have your movie playback window underneath your vibe coding UI. Sounds terrible to me, but it’s a distraction economy.