Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro headset

Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by jen729w on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:36AM (#36254134)

This feels like a technology that will be ‘ready’ in ten (twenty?) years, but to dismiss it now a) feels unimaginative and b) precludes that from ever happening.

Do I want to wear big goggles? No. Do I, one day, want a device that can magically project anything I want on to my field of vision, and for it to be as realistic as my actual vision?

Hell yeah I do! And we can’t get there unless we go through the ski goggles phase. So, here we are.

I feel the same way about people complaining that the headphone jack was removed. ‘The phone is thin enough!’, they say. No it isn’t! My god where’s your imagination. The phone is good enough when it’s wafer thin and I can have it protein-printed on my arm or whatever.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by wiz21c on Friday June 09, 2023 @02:45AM (#36254201)

I alreday feel exhausted when I walk my town because there's so many information to process: front of shops, advertising, road signs, people, cars, bikes, nice buildings,... If I had to add yet antoher layer of information on top of that, it would be exhausting.

Now, if I was someone who works in construction, I'd be happy to have glasses that add the position of eletrical wire in the wall where I'm going to drill a hole :-)

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by psiops on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:36AM (#36254570)

The iGlasses could just as easily block information making a walk through downtown Manhatten look like a stroll through the woods. Use at your own risk :)

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by xenostar on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:26AM (#36254495)

If the headsets are good enough you could actually use them to remove information from your view as you walk instead of adding more to it.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by layer8 on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:16AM (#36254410)

Real AR glasses could also edit out the existing distracting information, like an ad blocker. I guess technically that would not be AR, but DR (diminished reality).

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by solumunus on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:20AM (#36254877)

> I alreday feel exhausted when I walk my town because there's so many information to process: front of shops, advertising, road signs, people, cars, bikes, nice buildings

Ok, but you're certainly atypical in this respect.

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by golergka on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:29AM (#36254942)

These glasses for industrial purposes have already existed for a number of years

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Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P... by nologic01 on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:35AM (#36254560)

The first time (I am aware of) people experimenting with immersive computing experience was in the nineties CAVE @ ncsa [1]. It has not really taken off and I don't think its down to device specifics.

It is possible that there is a non-linear threshold type thing (Like LLM's requiring billions of parameters before doing a decent imitation of human language) that has prevented (thus far) making this technology really interesting.

[1] http://www.visbox.com/products/cave/

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