Apple is rumored to be working on two versions of Vision Pro, however a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman alleges the Cupertino tech giant is aiming to beat Meta to the punch with a pair of AR glasses. Citing someone with knowledge of the matter, the report maintains Apple CEO Tim Cook has put development …
  • Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    6 days ago

    I think the fundamental problem with the AR glasses is something that can’t be overcome.

    I think its easy to see the utility to owning a pair of glasses that look good and provide real time information as desired for what you are looking at or hearing.

    HOWEVER, I think very few people will want the product these co.panies will make. This will be a method to throw ads literally in front of your eyeballs. Enshitification is too big of a thing now and so any new product is tainted by the expectation it will rapidly turn to garbage at a high price to you.

    Also, while we may think we can be trusted, we dont trust anyone else having all that info, I dont like the obvious privacy implications that these can present. Filming with them is also terrifying.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      You might be giving people too much credit here because the same things could be said about a lot of products and services that have come out over the last 10 years

      • Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        😆 And here I was think I wasn’t giving anyone any credit. I just proclaimed none of us could be trusted!

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yeah my best guess is that at most these will at best lead to homebrew and specialist uses. For example I have to wear glasses my astigmatism is rather severe so contacts don’t work, so if I could attach a small projector to my glasses and put my phones display onto it I would have so many uses.

      • MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        It’s a still frame from Star Trek The Next Generation, episode The Game

        The plot is a wearable device that is an AR “glasses” game that as you play the game it “makes you feel good” gets used to take over the Enterprise so terrorists can hijack it.

        At the time I imagine it was intended to be part of anti-drug campaigns with the AR and companies curating what you see to distract from reality angle/sentiment being more relevant today

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      6 days ago

      How is Quest a flop? Or are you talking about something else?

      Bot quest and ray band products are huge success dominating their respective markets.

      I really wish people were more serious about these markets so it can be done well from the get got rather than starting to be fixed and regulated 2 decades later.

  • 13igTyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    6 days ago

    Google already made AR glasses and they failed. Not because the product was bad, but because AR is stupid and has such a niche case that it’s practically worthless.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    7 days ago

    There are a lot of things at Apple that I, as the paying customer, would rather Cook care more about than AR/VR boondoggles.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    289·
    7 days ago

    Guess what Tim Apple? No one wants them just like no one wanted your stupid headset that I honestly can’t even remember what it was called.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        6 days ago

        I love VR and have multiple devices but the platforms are still really bad. There’s so much jank amplified by all of the greed by Apple and Meta. For example on Apple’s VR device you can’t have multiple users - they were so greedy that they thought they’d sell multiple devices per household.

        Can’t wait for Valves Deckard or whatever next VR project they’re working on. Steamdeck is everything a handheld should be and if they can finally nail that in VR it would be awesome.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        7 days ago

        It sounds cool in theory, but modern tech companies aren’t going to make what you wanted as a kid. Whatever they make will be heavily enshittified.

        • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          Hold on a second. For it to be enshittified, it has to be good at the beginning, and I highly doubt that’s possible.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      54·
      7 days ago

      why? AR has always been superior to VR in terms of technology. i had hopes googles and later microsofts demo a few years back would take off but the tech just couldn’t find a niche market to hold onto and its just taken a backseat because it isn’t as gimmicky and easy to market to a ready-to-burn-money demography as VR (gaming). AR has actual real-life every-day application. as long as Apple does it well, competitors will follow, and as they do, we’ll actually be able to use it one day.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        61·
        7 days ago

        But you’re going to get a lot of people who don’t want to be around Glassholes as all AR includes a camera.

    • PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I mean, maybe of ots done well. I have the meta raybans and love them, mainly because I can listen to music as if I had earphones in, and talk on my phone with them, record, and take videos.

      If it had a UI to select options and could display info too, that would be pretty sick imo.

      • red_pigeon@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I’m curious what drives you to record videos using the glass. As opposed to a phone/camera, the POV is very restricted as you cannot move vertically (unless kneel/crawl and look up/down ofc). So I’m sure it cannot be called a replacement to a traditional phone/camera.

        So what is your motivation to use it ?

        • PhAzE@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Actually I never record videos and rarely take pictures with them. It’s the feature i use the least.

          I use them for music, phone calls, and AI requests (like having a Google home you can ask at any moment). Once and a while I’ll ask it to tell me what I’m looking at to listen to it describe something. That feature uses the camera to snap a shot of what your looking at.

          When I walk somewhere and need to use maps, it tells the directions to me as I walk which is pretty neat.

  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    I would love to have a good pair of ar glasses to play games on my Steam Deck with. Connect a controller, and not have to hold up the heavy Deck itself.

    But given Apple’s propensity for walled gardens and lock-in, and Meta putting manipulative spyware into everything they make, these hypothetical glasses won’t be coming from either of those companies.