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I am way more interested in a digital world being overlaid on the real world - augmenting rather than escaping. I’m not sure if I’d like to walk around the streets wearing them though - would be incredibly annoying to other people and a risk of being stolen.
Two thoughts 1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app. 2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
This is where I think Glass got it wrong. They made it feel exclusive when they should've been giving them away.
We'll know they're onto something if people are messing with these in Dolores Park when the weather turns nice in April.
Two thoughts 1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app. 2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
Two thoughts 1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app. 2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
The number of people from young kids to grandmas running around in groups was _insanely_ cool to see. I'm sad there simply wasn't enough content to keep it up the drive. I wanted to do missions/dungeon crawls/talk to NPCs etc.
This would have made the go experience 100x more fun... can you imagine a Charizard standing on top of my local mall?! omg. All of us using our captures to take over an objective.
We're nearly there.
Two thoughts 1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app. 2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
I get where you're coming from, but I think we all forget how much we looked like dorks out playing pokemon go. The difference was we were dorks in large groups. If you and a friend are doing this together, you're no longer a dork. You're going your own way. This is where I think Glass got it wrong. They made it feel exclusive when they should've been giving them away.
Waving a stick around and shouting fireball while wearing a goofy headset is, at present, still unacceptable.
Two thoughts 1. The dork factor is still in play here. I don't see this being popular by any means, so there needs to be a killer app. 2. I need to see a nice AR game like Pokemon GO integrated with this. I imagine that's the first/best killer app.
I get where you're coming from, but I think we all forget how much we looked like dorks out playing pokemon go. The difference was we were dorks in large groups. If you and a friend are doing this together, you're no longer a dork. You're going your own way. This is where I think Glass got it wrong. They made it feel exclusive when they should've been giving them away.
HoloKit, originally a Google Cardboard-like AR device for the iPhone, has been relaunched as a more premium $150 iPhone accessory. Unfortunately no SDK available anymore (for now at least). Looks interesting. Has anyone here tried it?
They have to pivot this soon enough to a cheap at-home AR thingy.
VR headsets are getting smaller at least:
https://en.shiftall.net/products/meganex
I would suspect Apple will never release something that isn’t as small as that.
Does this have an embedded microphone for audio input? I quickly skimmed the tech specs and it looks like the answer is "no" (presumably if you want that, the intention is that you use AirPods/some other Bluetooth input device).