Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by lotsoweiners » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 9:12 PM UTC

m_ke wrote: post #33

postexitus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to worry, it's not going to happen. LLMs does/will make individuals more efficient, therefore, reducing number of developers maybe, but you will still have the exact same bottlenecks at the exact same places throttling the delivery speed.

I'm saying there will be 10-100x more small dev shops competing with the big cos. Pizza sized teams that own the whole product and can just ship stuff without the dog and pony show that's common at larger orgs.

Big co buys them. Big co sues them. Big co lobbies to keep them out of their space etc etc. Not everything is a technical challenge.

Re: Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by flanbiscuit » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC

weberer wrote: post #21

I feel like whenever the topic of AR glasses come up, these large companies focus too much on cameras. When really, I'd be happy with just a persistent display that can be in my field of vision. A clock, notifications, maybe a map if I'm walking. I've been using the Viture One glasses as an external monitor and they've been great for privacy in public places. You definitely can't walk around with them since the inter…

These Viture One Pro glasses seem good, I might interested in one of these. I wear glasses, don't like wearing contacts, so I wonder how they would work for me. The video (at 1:18) shows that the Pro version has 2 dials to set focus. But the product page says that's to fix "blurry edges". Is this something I could use without my glasses? or will I need to wear contacts?

https://youtu.be/bdc9rcrZW8I?si=j9kY7rrCaQstYoQd&t=78

https://pro.viture.com/

edit: I think this maybe answers my question: https://www.reddit.com/r/VITURE/comments/159gt36/i_wear_glas...

| You can easily adjust each VITURE One XR Glasses lens to your prescription (0 to -5.00D) with convenient knobs located on the top of the frames.

| If your prescription doesn't fall into this range, no worries – to make sure everyone has access to a clear VITURE One experience, we’ve also developed a prescription frame that you can have your own lenses fitted into. This frame attaches to VITURE One XR Glasses magnetically for easy on and off.

Re: Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by gyomu » Tue, Feb 04, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

m_ke wrote: post #50

gyomu wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What will happen when tiny startups of 3-8 people get 5-20x more productive and can ship new stuff daily? The answer is in the comment you just wrote. If those tiny startups are successful, they will become the next bloated large companies where things take forever because of "intra team conflicts, legal hurdles and processes", which are categories of things LLMs will never solve because LLMs can't solve problems o…

As the cost of going from 0 to 1 goes to 0 the incentives flip. You'll have way more small companies that raise little or no money from VCs and have no incentives to juice head count to pump the valuation. I have a lot of friends who started similar companies recently, who are making millions in revenue with 2-8 people and deliberately plan to never grow head count past around 10 people. We'll have way more teams lik…

Can you show us these companies?

Re: Apple Scraps Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses

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Post by matwood » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 8:03 AM UTC

talldayo wrote: post #68

matwood wrote: post #31

These stories about unreleased Apple products always make me laugh. It's rumored Apple stops working on something they were rumored to be working on.

Most of them seem to be correct. Apple Car was basically an open secret for years before it was cancelled, same with AirPower and even Apple Vision Pro had it's price estimate leaked before it was announced. It feels like Apple thinks they're really good at hiding stuff, but forget that their employees love to talk. Nobody will forget the prototype iPhone left just sitting there unattended at a bar.

AirPower was actually announced. The problem with the others is it’s hard to know which are intended to be products or research. Particularly items that are far from any sort of release.

For example, I’m skeptical that Apple ever intended to release a car.