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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

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Post by aceazzameen »

peterangular wrote: post #50
gonehome wrote: post #25

Earlier 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…

This upsets me, because I genuinely liked GTalk and early Hangouts. The constant rebrands and iterations made me and my friends stop using G's chat products too.

I too don't expect quality from anything Google anymore. It's become an untrustworthy brand.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by dougmwne »

romanovcode wrote: post #84

Google cannot do anything except search and ads. Every other project they did was a failure. I have absolutely zero trust in any new product they release.

Recently moved from more than a decade on Android to iPhone. Once the Stockholm syndrome wore off I realized how pathetically behind they are on mobile.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by selestify »

hiptobecubic wrote: post #59
gonehome wrote: post #25

Earlier 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.

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.

Was that just a random number you threw out? Because it's depressing if even VPs can only afford three Bay Area homes.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by gonehome »

selestify wrote: post #103
hiptobecubic wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Was that just a random number you threw out? Because it's depressing if even VPs can only afford three Bay Area homes.

I'd guess a VP can afford just one? Median housing price is 3M in Palo Alto.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by candyman »

Google doesn't really build things or have product management. They need to acquire. So I expect them to do that if/when things get serious and they realize how far behind they are. There will probably be money to be made if we can identify the best fit names for them.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by [deleted] »

dwighttk wrote: post #100
dougmwne wrote: post #92

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I disagree. It was and is an AR product. Re-watch this early promo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErpNpR3XYUw There are several clear AR features displayed. There's a location based notification about the subway service upon getting close to the entrance. There's overlaid compass based walking directions. There's GPS based location identification and check-in. AR is more than just computer vision driven overl…

Sure if the experience of using it had been anything like that video it would have been AR, but it was not like that. I’m sure they wanted AR glasses but instead they built a tiny screen you could look at when you weren’t looking at what was around you… kinda like a phone that you didn’t have to hold.

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Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by fizwhiz »

hiptobecubic wrote: post #59
gonehome wrote: post #25

Earlier 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.

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.

> buy a third bay area house

In palo alto / atherton no less.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by vineyardmike »

mysterydip wrote: post #15

It seems glasses like these will be inevitable at some point, whether from Google or someone else. How will we have any privacy at all in a future where anyone could be recording you and uploding that data to some cloud? All it takes is one person with them at a party, or restaurant, or busy city street.

I'm hoping that Apple releases theirs using LIDAR instead, and that sets the tone for the rest of industry.

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by standardUser »

jlarocco wrote: post #40

Augmented reality from an advertiser? No thanks. Sounds like something straight out of a dystpoian sci-fi story.

As Fry once said, "Only on TV and radio. And in magazines and movies and at ball games, on buses and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sir-ee!"

Re: Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system

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Post by Enginerrrd »

nynx wrote: post #47
postsantum wrote: post #22

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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.

Incredible claims require incredible proof.

In this case, I'd probably settle for even a single real-world example.

You can't use hypothetical systems here because the implied power structures created will be utilized by actual humans.

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