Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P...
by m_mueller on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:53AM
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I'm not saying it's possible in a few years. My argument was: Such a device would definitely be mass market. So how much worse can it be and still be mass market. And I could see a consumer version of Vision Pro in a couple of years reaching that state, where they just make it a bit cheaper, lighter and smaller.
Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P...
by mrguyorama on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:56AM
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Everyone saying "just wait until this has been miniturized and made cheaper" as if Moores law wasn't already dead and buried and we've been burning billions chasing 1-2% per generation for several generations.
There's one more doubling of computing power per square centimeter of die, MAXIMUM.
Otherwise GPU prices wouldn't still be climbing.
Re:Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision P...
by m_mueller on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:14AM
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as it turns out there is a lot of optimizations to be had besides feature size shrink. for a long while, both software and hardware were sustaining of the "free lunch" of Moore's law (as coined by Herb Sutter). With that fading away, there has been a lot of progress on the architecture side in the last couple of years, with AMD & Apple entering a previously stale desktop CPU market and mixing it up quite a bit, forcing Intel to also be competitive again. I think it will be quite a while until the train of improvement runs dry even when feature size will be stuck. Think about how inefficient today's software still is when compared to what e.g. the original Mac could do with its limited hardware.
Phones, laptops, and tablets have all been fighting on weight vs compute power for years, and improvements are incremental year to year. I don't see any reason to imagine it's possible to reduce the size that much in the foreseeable future. Even with compromises like a separate battery, which is already extremely clunky.
Not to mention, the illusion depends highly on having your regular vision blocked out completely and on having the screens at a very fixed position relative to your eyes. So, for the foreseeable future, the screens will have to stay well fixed to your face, even if in a more glasses-like form factor, and completely cover your eyes. Ski goggles are actually a better description of the best that can be done, not glasses.