Will that be Google's 68th Operating System or 69th I forget how many they are up to now. /s
I sure hope they create a new programming language for it too!
Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
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#52They could call it StARdia!
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#53Google 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…
Even Google Wave could be another example of this.
They killed it almost instantly? This was before Slack, discord, etc.
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#54Whenever 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…
Now they can call it MetaGlass!
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#55Whenever 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…
Sounds like they read some headlines along the lines of "Meta... metaverse... blah, blah, blah..." and had a bout of tech-envy. Again.
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#56I have Google announcement fatigue. It's just so pointless to get excited about anything they say they're working on. I wonder how employees feel after spending years working on a new product only to see it tossed aside and forgotten. Years of their life wasted, discarded like they never mattered in the first place. It makes me shudder to imagine that as a possible trajectory my life could have taken. I mourn for any…
There has been no announcement. This is Ars reporting on a blog post on somebody reporting on a job posting.
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#57Earlier 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.
> 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, Gm…
Yeah - I moved off every Google service during covid (switching all accounts to fastmail was the biggest pain, but once moved has been great).
One nice thing I'll say is Google's data tools and privacy controls are great. It's very easy to export/delete/control your data there from the settings if you dig through them.
The only thing I still use regularly for personal accounts is YouTube premium.
Thankfully no friends use hangouts and I was able to move the stragglers to signal. I personally don't like discord either, but it's harder to get people out of that one (for now).
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#58Augmented reality from an advertiser? No thanks. Sounds like something straight out of a dystpoian sci-fi story.
I totally agree but VR from an advertiser that's about as moral as a cigarette company seems to be doing ok and a market leader.
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#59Whenever 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.
Google is unfocused. That's the how the company is designed. It's a federation of VPs, each trying to build a little fiefdom and buy a third bay area house. Sometimes this works well because it fosters competition, but there's a definite lack of coherency.
Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system
#60Whenever 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…
Glass was not AR. It was a tiny screen you had to shift your focus to. I should change my usernames to glasswasnotar because I feel like I am always saying that when people talk about glass and ar
How is a tiny screen overlaid in an accessible field of vision, not totally obscuring your perception of reality, NOT "augmenting reality"? I agree it barely meets the threshold, but I don't write it off as not AR full stop.