Will that be Google's 68th Operating System or 69th I forget how many they are up to now. /s
> But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
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Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
wasn't Microsoft also in this race with the HoloLens?
Not past tense -- HoloLens is a product they charge real money for.
I have a friend who works at a company that uses HoloLens, their use case is so that mechanics working on planes can be remotely guided by a more experienced mechanic (not sure if they're engineers?) on what they have to do to repair the aircraft.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google seems unfocused - AR is an example of this, their messaging platforms and failure to leverage Google voice for 10yrs after the acquisition are too. I’d bet on Apple, FB, or some new entry (harder without the underlying OS). DeepMind is the most interesting thing coming out of Google imo.
It hurts to see it the accidental implication that DeepMind came out of Google. DeepMind was one of the UK's greater recent creations and it got bought/absorbed for a pittance in exchange for custom TPUs. I'll agree though that DeepMind would not have been able to exist really without Google's ongoing funding and hardware, so maybe it is Google's creation at this point.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to imply that Google created it or anything. For better or worse they are owned and supported by Google now though.
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#44Yeah let me know when the designer drugs that build the cognitive awareness of AR, without all the dumb gadgets, are available.
I’m sure we could simulate experience through detailed hallucinations, methods that leave behind the neural structures, reinforcing belief through social story telling. That’s how religion worked.
Everyone is obsessed with making experience happen through technology as if it’s more real to our memory down the road, when it never happened for anyone who wasn’t there.
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#45Google had the head start here with Glass, and then in classic Google fashion they let it die. I'm always baffled how bad is Google at playing long term games. Their biggest mistake with Glass was trying to productize it too fast and stopping when they saw it didn't have good consumer fit. They could have instead go more incremental by releasing developer hardware and learning from that. They could have kept that pro…
Android Things was a great example how bad they are.
1 - Remove Java layer from AOSP
2 - Add C++ frameworks as replacement
3 - Call it Brillo and show it at Linux Plummers
4 - Bring Android layer back with restrictions, call it Android Things
5 - Add back the capability to write drivers with NDK (lost in Brillo - Things transition).
6 - Let it stagnate for around one year
7 - Kill the project.
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#46Google had the head start here with Glass, and then in classic Google fashion they let it die. I'm always baffled how bad is Google at playing long term games. Their biggest mistake with Glass was trying to productize it too fast and stopping when they saw it didn't have good consumer fit. They could have instead go more incremental by releasing developer hardware and learning from that. They could have kept that pro…
People start with the assumption that Google folks are very wise. Why? This assumption just makes it more difficult to explain their bad decisions.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't sound dystopian at all. Got to love capitalism!
This, but unironically. Under alternative systems you aren't going to choose what to look at
Could you expand on this? There are many economic/political systems in which people have more freedom than in capitalism.
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#48But it's Google, so the program will be canceled after a disappointing beta.
Reserve a plot in their graveyard.
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#49Can they fix Android first? Since years I don't have LTE internet when Android connected to a Wifi but I haven't signed in.
Are you kidding? How is that going to get me a promotion to L7?
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#50Whenever I transpose my comments to HN, I usually do some light editing. The following comment is unedited because this headline kinda fired me up. Considering how Google’s treated AR and VR in the last 10 years, hyping people up then quietly pulling back support and finally cancellation after just 2-3 years, I don’t see this going well. They had a toehold 6-10 years ago which they could have easily kept iterating on…
Google seems unfocused - AR is an example of this, their messaging platforms and failure to leverage Google voice for 10yrs after the acquisition are too. I’d bet on Apple, FB, or some new entry (harder without the underlying OS). DeepMind is the most interesting thing coming out of Google imo.
> their messaging platforms and failure to leverage Google voice for 10yrs after the acquisition are too
The Hangouts > Chat transition is exactly this. Objectively, they've made it worse and more buggy on their own Android platform. Ever since the transition I talk to friends less on Google services. Many of us jumped to Discord
Don't even get me going on the Gmail rollout...
Google was once an innovator (search, Gmail, Docs) but I'm not expecting quality from any of their future product rollouts... especially if it's an existing product.