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Because its cool. I mean, the real answer is that we have the technology to be tech wizards. You could conjure spatially anchored widgets and screens and gaug
by jayd16 2mo ago
Because its cool.
I mean, the real answer is that we have the technology to be tech wizards. You could conjure spatially anchored widgets and screens and gauges.
You could put a cooking show screen above the stove, where a physical screen wouldn't work. You could put a synced calendar on the wall. Notes app on the fridge, weather reminders by the door. ...a million mundane conveniences in the house alone.
But still, its too heavy and to do the spatial anchoring you need a device with a constant camera feed and the only folks who make that at the moment have questionable morals.
- eldaisfish 2mo agobut then you are not present, you are distracted by a computer. Just because that computer does not have a clunky monitor, doesn't mean that you aren't any less distracted. Some of the attitudes on this website, especially ones like yours, are the literal reason we are in this mess today. Please, please, if you have the power, push back on this nonsense from the inside. We need more people talking to other people like real humans, not like notes in a digital diary.
- jayd16 2mo agoNothing I described replaces or impacts talking to a human. If someone is going to distract themselves in XR, they can already do it more efficiently on a handset. The only change would be your posture and eye strain could possibly improve.
- eldaisfish 2mo agoWhy then are you trying to justify invasive hidden cameras in more places? Really, why not just use the existing solutions? This push for « convenience » is how we ended up with microphones in people’s most private spaces. I urge you to consider whether humanity really needs more technological solutions to social problems.
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- fortyseven 2mo agoWho are you to dictate what somebody enjoys? Don't worry about it. Do you.
- subscribed 2mo agoWhy is that a problem for you? It's XR, for them it's a notes app in the convenient place, for me it might be a next meeting reminder on the wall next to my work screen, so I can work less distracted and more focused. Why is their way of enriching their connected life a problem? I think some of the worst attitudes on this website is projecting own worst case scenarios and implying bad intentions to the most innocuous or honest signals. That's the problem much bigger than someone's glasses - you support polarisation and teaming (us vs them) instead of seeking connection or understanding.
- mrguyorama 2mo agoPeople always say this like having an actual board of notes on the fridge hasn't been trivially possible for a century. It's like people obsessing over window managers. 99% of the time, the amount of windows you have showing is not the problem, you can't really focus on more than one at a time anyway. Consider as a demonstrative example, race car drivers. They have had options to have extremely detailed Heads Up Displays with all sorts of absurd data available at a glance for decades. But they largely do not use tons of data like that, because it's just not compatible with the human brain. They already are looking at things more often and processing more info than a "normal" person while racing, but that heads up display would not benefit them. Similarly, the Heads Up Display for modern fighter jets is very lightweight, focusing on allowing you to see around it and provide you the very basics of flight instrumentation and a standard orientation instrument. People just have wild ideas about how to "optimize" their lives that are just not supported by reality. You would be better off making flash cards about those things you want to "know" in that moment and drilling them. I too used to be drawn to this idea. Back in 2016ish, I got an ODBII dongle for my car and app for my phone and was so excited about all the data I was going to have at a glance, just like some sort of pro! But the data was pointless and meaningless. Oh, timing advance is at 20 degrees in this throttle regime. Cool I guess. Eventually I gave up and only have my car showing instantaneous fuel efficiency, which is the only valuable data point for my needs.
- senordevnyc 2mo agoThe information density on a fighter jet HUD has nothing to do with hanging a calendar on your wall.
- jyounker 2mo ago> Consider as a demonstrative example, race car drivers. They have had options to have extremely detailed Heads Up Displays with all sorts of absurd data available at a glance for decades. It's kind of a bad example, because there are other reasons that we don't have HUDsin cars. A friend of mine designed car interiors. His explanation went like this: With a HUD, you have to pick a focus point. In an airplane, when you look forward, your eyes are always focused at infinity, so the HUD is focused there. It has the same focus point as your eyes. In a car everything is slower and closer, so you have to constantly change your focus. The HUD though has a single focus point though, and drivers' eyes tend to lock onto the HUD's focus. This focus lock interferes with normal scanning, and drivers stop seeing important things. They don't notice important things, so they get into accidents. According to him, HUDs in cars lead to much higher accident rates.
- watwut 2mo ago> You could put a cooking show screen above the stove, where a physical screen wouldn't work. You could put a synced calendar on the wall. Notes app on the fridge, weather reminders by the door. ...a million mundane conveniences in the house alone. Honestly, they sound all useless. Like, junk gandgets you get because someone needed to give you a christmas gift, then you use them for like 2 weeks as toys and then they end up forgotten collecting dust junk. The reason people dont have those is because they dont have real actual utility.
- jayd16 2mo agoSure, a lot of these are super niche. But each one of these costs nothing. Gadgets become software. Its the final gadget.
- asdff 2mo agoAll things you can already do with the phone you already own. Only it isn't mounted on the wall I guess. But is that really such a showstopper that demands this technology? You could also get a dummy screen that displays this info. Reminds me of ipad and to a lesser extent, apple watch. It came out with a ton of hype, tons of people got one, only to never really use it because hey, it only does the exact same stuff as the phone you carry around with you all the time anyhow.
- jayd16 2mo agoFor the most part, a phone gets you most of the way there. They're currently the apex predators of the mobile space. I think the one thing that a headset does bring to the table is the hands free nature of it. There are quite a few AR apps and use cases that phones can currently do that fall short because you need to hold your phone out and that's really invasive and fatiguing. In theory you could have things like a walk through of a DIY engine repair that adds virtual pointers and highlights to important things. You could do this in a video where you go to your phone, watch a step, rewind, put the phone down, find where in the real world the thing is, do the thing, wipe your hands, pick up the phone, repeat etc. but I imagine it would be nicer in AR. I'm not saying spend a trillion dollars on this, just that it would be a neat thing.
- asdff 2mo agoIf they ever gave a shit about voice controls we could have had that 20 years ago with a desktop monitor in the garage. But sadly phones still screw up 50 and 15 with voice controls today. Scrubbing through video would be pretty frustrating on voice control.
- jayd16 2mo agoThe Vision Pro, for example, has enough fidelity that you can do that sort of thing with a hand gesture fairly easily.