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Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by jojobas »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #6
senttoschool wrote: post #3

More than 10 years later, it's still not good enough for business adoption? Wow. When it was first released, it was really neat. I'd imagine that we'd all be wearing AR glasses by now.

>I'd imagine that we'd all be wearing AR glasses by now. Am I the asshole here for being happy that future never came to pass? People are already zombies addicted to their phones, tracked and monetized to hell by advertisers, so I feel like gluing it to their eyes with cameras constantly scanning everything they look at, is some dystopian nightmare I never want to see.

What's worse, same as with most emails going through google and people tagging each other on photos, you can be as savvy as you want and your image will be on other people's video feed all the time.

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Post by IshKebab »

geenat wrote: post #2

Glass seemed so far ahead of it's time when one considers how much microsoft is investing into augmented reality and hololens.

Glass was nothing like Hololens. It was basically a smart watch in the corner of your vision.

Hololens is full 3D AR. Much more impressive. The only issue with Hololens was it had a really tiny field of view.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

Somewhat related, a question for HN people:

Is there a product — perhaps some kind of goggles — that I can wear on my face which will simulate the experience of watching a big television? I don't want virtual reality or augmented reality or anything like that.

I just want to be able to sit on a long-haul flight and isolate my eyes and ears in such a way that it feels like I'm sitting alone in a dark room watching a movie. The movie should play from my iPhone.

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Post by nicky0 »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #15

Somewhat related, a question for HN people: Is there a product — perhaps some kind of goggles — that I can wear on my face which will simulate the experience of watching a big television? I don't want virtual reality or augmented reality or anything like that. I just want to be able to sit on a long-haul flight and isolate my eyes and ears in such a way that it feels like I'm sitting alone in a dark room watching a m…

Any VR headset will do that; I know you said no VR but get over that. VR headsets are a head mounted display & audio tech that you can buy. (see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stream-movies-in-vr/)

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Post by LeoPanthera »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #15

Somewhat related, a question for HN people: Is there a product — perhaps some kind of goggles — that I can wear on my face which will simulate the experience of watching a big television? I don't want virtual reality or augmented reality or anything like that. I just want to be able to sit on a long-haul flight and isolate my eyes and ears in such a way that it feels like I'm sitting alone in a dark room watching a m…

This used to exist, in the 90s (!), in the form of the Sony Glasstron.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasstron

They stopped making them at the end of that decade.

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