Technology

In theory, there’s a Million awesome business applications for it.

Let’s say you’re in construction and your glasses tell you exactly what to build where and how.

You’re a waiter and the glasses tell you which table ordered what, needs attention, etc.

You’re a network engineer and the glasses show you on every port which device is connected.

And don’t even get me started on the military applications.

Of course we’re not there yet. But that’s why they’re so obsessed with it. They want to be the first.

I’d really just like some glasses that simulate multiple monitors without needing special software. That’s all I want

overlaying ads on literally everything could be the end goal.

This AR obsession is utterly baffling to me.

• It's a mobile phone you don't need to hold.

• It's a mobile phone that never goes in your pocket.

• It's a mobile phone that is always on and has access to everything you see and hear.

Sure in a decade or so it might have matured enough to have shed all these issues

That's the point. They want to set themselves up so that when the issues are shed and it becomes a realistic product, they're already in a place where their product can be the one that takes over the market. If you wait until a product is viable before starting on development, you're too late.

Maybe it’s as simple as the next big product. When smartphones were new, nobody foresaw just how huge they’d become. Nobody could have foreseen what a force they’d turn Apple into. But now improvements are simply iterative, the market is nearing saturation, there’s not much room left to expand what’s next?

Maybe AR. It’s a really cool technology just now becoming practical to implement. Think of them as where smartphones were 15 years ago. Maybe they won’t go anywhere but imagine if they did! Imagine being the company most associated with the next hit tech product!

Apple risks stagnating if they don’t find a next hit product

it’s not that complicated, the goal is to create another hit product that everyone wants like the ipod and iphone.

There's a gag in Futurama about ads being displayed in your dreams. If that were possible they'd be doing that, but right now they're settling for just the waking hours.

If only Siri could understand what I say

But think of the constant, total surveillance opportunity for Apple, and how this could help them win favor and contracts from the fascist US government!

Well I do want this, augmented/virtual reality is exactly the kind of shit I dreamt about as a kid during the 90's, and having a huge screen available anywhere I go is pretty fucking cool.

But yeah, I used a VR headset exactly once for like 5 minutes, and there's no way in hell I'd buy one from meta or apple. If Valve releases good XR/AR glasses I might consider it.

I mean, AR is pretty awesome to be fair.

With the exception for extremely niche stuff like surgery (and they won't use off the shelf AR anyways) what's your usecases to bring AR to the masses?

You don't have to strap the internet to someone's face to distort their reality with it, as demonstrated by... Well, gestures broadly

It's taxing imagining everyone naked all the time. I'm at least looking forward to technology doing that for me.