I just wanted to hear what everyone’s thoughts are on Apple’s new product line coming out in 2024. Will this be the new iPad/iPhone? While the price is certainly prohibitive, from what I can tell from the keynote and promo, it really does seem like the real deal; a different way of interacting ‘in space.’ I think this is the step in the right direction for AR/VR to be more mainstream.
The AR stuff is what I’ve wanted since the first Oculus dropped – being able to remove all the obvious parts of technology from my physical spaces (the multiple monitors, the computer tower, all the cables and whatnot) in favor of a thing I put on my head and do real work? Yes please. Fuck gaming – I want my life back, and to have work shoved off into a weird phantom realm where I don’t have to think about or look at it when I’m off the clock.
I really want to try one for myself before I make any real opinions on it. I also won’t say that it is DOA as much as I want to, because I said the same thing about the iPad and it’s lack of Flash. At the end of the day I can’t afford one anyway so it doesn’t really matter to me, but it’s some cool tech for sure.
They are betting on it being the next big thing, but I don’t think it is. One side note the images shows clear googles, I’m pretty sure their model has no clear through vision, isn’t it a black opaque front with camera? So if battery dies you lose external vision. For a product to take off it has to fill a use-case and a buyer’s need. Why is wearing a goggle needed, it is cumbersome and limited. Workplace use woyld be fatiguing. Google Glass had a better idea (you could interact with the world normal and have AR as a bonus. The cost of apple product is also a barrier to many, and so you would get poor people with no access to functions. Just seems like they will share the fate of Metas AR googles.
I think that might actually be an external screen.
Iirc it is an external screen yes.
Its an extremely niche product, just look at the price alone, it will prevent if from taking off
That’s how it should work. If anyone can sell an objectively stupid tech gadget, though, it’s Apple.
So outsiders see your face from inside?
Yeah. I guess two screens was easier to make work than one dual-purpose window-screen.
The outside is a “Lenticular” 3D display showing a render of the wearer’s face, including showing where their eyes are looking. Lenticular displays show a completely different image depending on your viewing angle.
Pretty cool if it works well, and from the sounds of it it does. Lenticular displays are very old technology but they’re normally used for static printed content. But I guess there’s no reason you can’t put an active display behind a lenticular lens.
The same render of your face is also used if you have a video meeting with someone while wearing the headset.
The problem with see through AR glasses is that the actual VR view looks like ass because the tech to do it well is not there yet.
I’m really into robotic teleoperation, so any tech that could help there allures me… but if it doesn’t have full range hand tracking it can’t beat the Occulus Quest 2 for my use case.
I can see companies buying it and some enthusiasts. But I don’t think it will see wide consumer adoption with that price.
Even though I think this is one of the rare instances where the price seems to be quite fair. For an Apple product at least.
I think it will really depend on if there are 1 or 2 “killer” apps. For Smartphone, when it first came out (before Iphone, there were tons of pseudo-smartphones coming out of Japan/Korea for a decade), it was just some glorified mp3 player with basic internet and phone capabilities plus some calculators. It wasn’t until maps, navigations, and later, apps like lyft, uber, and Instagram, that really drove home the role of smartphones for the average consumer.