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Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by mrkpdl »

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

I think passthrough has no future. VR games are fun, immersive applications are real, AR adds a dimension to that but without the immersive applications tech bros will keep failing at this one.

I did quite a bit of work in VR about a decade ago. The VR vs AR delineation was a constant conversation back then too. In meetings, at the bar, and so on: “This VR sure isn’t great but just you wait, AR will be the good one”…

But in reality it’s splitting hairs. Similar to discussing which tone pot values are better for your Stratocaster. Most people just don’t care, nor should they! “Stop trying to make fetch happen” as they say.

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Post by montag »

I agree that VR goggles hit a ceiling due to simple inconvenience. Whether smart glasses will suffer the same fate is a very interesting question. But the article would be much more effective without the cheap “tech bro” ridicule. Ultimately, after calling every product ugly, the analysis put forward by this author comes down to “short battery life and privacy concerns”.

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Post by bjterry »

_dain_ wrote: post #22

I hope theft deters people from wearing these perv glasses. They're easier to nick than phones since owner isn't gripping them at all. I'd tolerate a fair amount of crime and public disorder as part of this tradeoff, like how we keep predators around to control pests.

The Meta glasses camera has a very wide field of view. You'd need to be quite close to a person to realistically take "pervy" photos, and it'd be really obvious. Seems like it'd be no better at this than a cell phone.

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Post by marssaxman »

dylan604 wrote: post #27
PaulHoule wrote: post #2

I think passthrough has no future. VR games are fun, immersive applications are real, AR adds a dimension to that but without the immersive applications tech bros will keep failing at this one.

> AR adds what really worries me would be AR ads

If AR glasses could run an adblocker for the real world, that might convince me to buy a pair.

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Post by vkou »

Brendinooo wrote: post #20

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good. But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

> I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

Most advertising persuades you with less-than-rational means. It's just fighting fire with fire.

And it's quite justified, because in this case, it punches up against a technology with a net-negative social impact.

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Post by hdndjsbbs »

dylan604 wrote: post #18
Terr_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Industrial use-cases could end up as fundamentally different product, ex: * Guiding someone through a complex assembly, it's going to be on pretty much all shift, with effects on thermal management and battery capacity. * You'll want to swap batteries so that it can be used by another shift, which will take priority over fashion. * It may also need to incorporate positioning markers and QR codes and external sensor d…

> * Ruggedness and repairability may be prioritized over miniaturization. repairability? in what trend are you seeing that being a thing? they'll just make you buy an expensive warranty/insurance plan for replacements. i really don't see tech allowing for repairability

Job sites don't want downtime. Companies aren't going to futz around with a bin of spare replacement glasses if they freeze or the battery dies every four hours.

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Post by quantified »

Brendinooo wrote: post #20

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good. But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

Does it make you feel like getting them out of spite? Real question.
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