I just want to have text in my glasses. Let’s start there? Customizable api to allow things like a hud. Compass, like skyrims would be kinda cool, and maybe an rss feed and text msgs.
I’m so mad Google killed Project Iris. They had the Focals by North team, and Focals were exactly what you’re describing. We had it. They worked great.
It would be kinda nice to know my current hp at a glance.
I always wanted waypoints, or an overlay of a path. Would be especially handy in the woods but could be good in a city as well
To hear Apple fans talk about glasses, Apple has been working on this since 2006. The whole tech industry has turned Heads Up Displays into a spectator sport, where “reviewers” tell people not to buy what’s currently out, because Apple is right around the corner. SEVENTEEN years of rumored R&D, with NOTHING to show for it from Apple, and numerous competitors dead along the way. We could be rocking some cool face tech if we could get consumers educated on what these systems can really do. Here we are again. Returning to the same Apple rumors people have been spreading since Google Glass. I’m not holding my breath.
I must admit I’m not actually keeping that much track of it, because it’s too expensive and it’s not being released in Europe anyway. But haven’t they actually shown off demonstration models. So they do actually have a product right now that they could release.
Google glass never really struck me as a particularly viable product because it basically wasn’t very good. Then Google kind of gave up on it rather than develop the technology further.
I happened to meet a Google employee who was wearing a Google Glass back when they were all over the news and he let me demo it. It was actually really neat. There were lots of jokes at the time that it would cause your eyes to go wonky, like The Jerk’s invention in the Steve Martin movie, but they were neat little devices and it’s a shame that Google never did anything with them.
They haven’t. Apple has made almost zero public commitment to glasses. They’ve shown off tech demos of AR software on phones and tablets, but if you’re thinking of actual headsets, you’re only remembering the media and journalist hype machine speculating on what Apple glasses might be. We’ve seen patents, but they’re all clunkier diagrams than Google Glass or Samsung Gear VR. Google Glass was a solid first step of a Heads Up Display. People saying it wasn’t very good never used the updated models. It ran in medical and industrial uses until this year, and it seems the main reason Google finally killed off that hardware was to make Samsung happy. Eleven years after the Glass reveal, Apple has still been unable to ship a practical daily wearable face display to market. That hasn’t stopped the hype machine from acting like Apple AR is right around the corner. “THIS time we MEAN it! It’ll come!”
No they have actual models that they’ve demonstrated.
Prototypes behind closed doors, where no one else gets to see the product, and it’s later “revealed” by a leaker in a completely un-sourced youtube video are not “demos”. Microsoft put hololens on stage. Google shipped Glass to the public 11 years ago. Apple still hasn’t shipped Vision Pro.
We could be rocking some cool face tech if we could get consumers educated on what these systems can really do.
If anyone can spread the word, it’s Apple. They’re masters of marketing, so I’m sure they’ll educate everyone adequately if they ever actually release something.
Apple of the Jobs era was way better at using proper standards and bringing consumers up to speed. Current Apple is more concerned with breaking standards to sell proprietary solutions. If the mission is to put a smartwatch at eye level, Apple will not be good stewards of that mission.
They will certainly use proprietary hardware and software, but they’ll show the world why it’s useful, and anyone interested can choose their platform, assuming there are alternatives.
Well tech journalists and reviewers have been on a mission to kill that competition since Google Glass…
