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I think the preferred term is contentpreneur now, not influencer.
For some reason I read that as "con-trepreneur" and thought "yeah that fits much better" until I re-read your comnment.
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
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#562One step closer to AI headbands from Ell Donsaii world
Or Mad Hatter's ones from "The Batman" cartoon series...
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#563Earlier quoted context omitted.
But has the device really something to do with that? Right now people are staring absent-mindedly at a screen in their hands, in the future they might be staring absent-mindedly at whatever is behind the projected image on their glasses. What’s keeping you from interacting with the world around you is probably the content not the device.
I think their hypothesis is that it's not the "what" (interacting with content) that prevents phone users from interacting with the world, but the "how" (head tilted down, eyes focused on a small rectangle, peripheral vision almost completely unused). With an AR experience (in their hypothesis), the overlay nature of the content being displays does not prevent you from interacting with the real world. Example - you a…
> Alternatively, how many times have we seen phone users trip on the sidewalk or walk into something because they are so engrossed in what's on the screen?
It is impressive to me how different our views are. Rather than looking to help with the technology addiction of society (ie people glued to their phones, ipods in ears, walking in the physical world), let’s help them to keep the addiction going but not trip over obstacles while doing so.
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#564> We don’t think people should have to make the choice between a world of information at your fingertips and being present in the physical world around you. What a weird mission statement.
I like to think of AR as taking the Internet out of the little box in your hand and merging the physical/digital worlds we inhabit
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If they get the hardware right, apps should surely fill in with better use cases over time. The Verge demoed a better scenario where orion picked up on food ingredients in field of view and displayed a smoothie recipe using them. [1] https://youtu.be/mpKKcqWnTus?t=236
Do they actually provide applications the ability to access raw camera data? They don't allow that on the Occulus. They can only rely on 3p devs if they allow access to the hardware.
This has been such a frustrating limitation of all the big AR platforms. For years, my company has wanted to make an AR app for a certain industrial use case that scans QR codes. Neither Meta nor Apple allow it! We had to give up and do AR on an iPhone instead. Think about that - the iPhone has more powerful AR than the Apple Vision Pro for every developer except Apple.
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#566Nice hardware. They're down to swim goggle size. Then you see what Facebook wants you to do with it - see screens in front of you all the time. One with Facebook's "Recommended" page, and a video of some talking neckbeard. There's a feeling of "we were promised virtual reality, and all we got was talking heads of influencers." The hardware apparently has GPS, but that's turned off. So, no Pokemon Go yet. Not even Hyp…
Further evidence to the truth of this: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. –Jeff Hammerbacher Oh lament! for what, not just the future, but the present, could have been. Edited to add: But! Even as I have just written that and stand by it, I just don't know if humanity could have done it any other way. One must sell their soul to 'the green', even just a little, to have th…
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#567While still pretty clunky, I think I'd rather wear these for extended periods of time than Vision Pro glasses (100g vs 600g). This is the type of v1 minimalist design I was hoping Apple would go for. I assume Apple investigated this path but realized they would be cost prohibitive? (although when has that ever stopped Apple before?)
Yeah it’s “cool prototype” vs debugged assembly line, manufacturing process, customer complaints, etc.
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#568Nice hardware. They're down to swim goggle size. Then you see what Facebook wants you to do with it - see screens in front of you all the time. One with Facebook's "Recommended" page, and a video of some talking neckbeard. There's a feeling of "we were promised virtual reality, and all we got was talking heads of influencers." The hardware apparently has GPS, but that's turned off. So, no Pokemon Go yet. Not even Hyp…
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#569This will probably be an unpopular opinion, but Meta is in the right direction and has to go on an Amazon type arc to align their employees with their vision. I watched this podcast that released around the same time and Zuckerberg's argument/vision for the future of Meta seems solid[0]. Generally, a large magnitude of value is created during "platform shifts" and they have now placed (really good) bets on VR/AR and…
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#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
The benefit of a mobile phone was extremely obvious to everyone as soon as you said what it was. I've been reading about AR for years and I still have no idea how, if at all, I would use it. Never really come across a use case that's compelling for me. Getting WhatsApp messages without taking my phone out of my pocket feels like the opposite to the direction I'd like to move in.
You could have things overlaid on top of real life content in order to provide you assistance, hands free. For example, think about GPS turn by turn navigation while walking or having a recipe displayed while cooking it.
The first use case is negative for me, aszit would further increase my reliance on technology.
The second, yeah, maybe, if it was done incredibly well. but marginal benefit over an iPad or similar.