Re:Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movie...
by mrguyorama on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:13AM
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We literally already tried this. Google glass existed, and was super hyped up, and nobody liked it.
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Re:Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movie...
by ghaff on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:36AM
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Google Glass really didn't work very well and didn't really have a decent software story. I'm not inclined to write off AR for all time just because Google Glass failed.
Re:Apple Vision Pro – Why It May Be Lousy for Watching Movie...
by MikeTheRocker on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:25PM
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Google Glass was also only very primitive AR in that there was no scene understanding capabilities. There was no ability for the system to convincingly augment the real world (for example, using plane detection to anchor digital entities to real world geometry). It was purely a small, low resolution, monocular, semi-transparent display providing essentially smart watch level functionality in a face-worn form factor. It was a cool but unsuccessful idea that was ahead of its time.
TL;DR: I agree; don't use Glass as a reason to write off AR glasses altogether.