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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And besides the tech bros with the throw away money, many of the people who have bought this thing are “influencers” and now are having trouble figuring out how to make content with or about this thing, because it’s early adopter play tech and has very little actual use, so the influencers are the ones putting out videos like “what would I even do with this?”

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hilarious. It doesn't even look cool to wear it. It's slightly better than Google Glass, but what are you going to do with it?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I mean, as I pointed out, before an App Store, not much. After an App Store and some competition there are crazy cool applications. Cooking? The device can show you how much of your food to chop, where to put it, visually measure a teaspoon or tablespoon or whatever for you, automatically start a timer when you get the chicken in the pan or whatever. Look up at the stars and see constellations, flights, weather, etc overlaid by your view. On-road gps directions where there is an arrow video game style showing you where to go. Apps that could assist in things like building legos by showing you which pieces to grab and where they go. Looking down over the earth while on a flight to see exactly what landmark/town/area/state you are looking at. There are awesome applications to the tech. Whether we will see them or not is a matter of speculation. Apple is advertising a 3500 dollar headset with cool hardware and boring ass software right now

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That may be a more complex device, but I'd prefer something like a light Mandalorian helmet, with normal glass before your eyes (BTW, I think I've read about new kinds of glass which change degree of translucency depending on ionization or something) and picture being projected on it or with some display inside. I'm fine if that'd be 16x times fewer pixels.

    Looking at the outside world via a computer display is just instinctively awful.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    BTW, I think I've read about new kinds of glass which change degree of translucency depending on ionization or something

    Yes it's called electrochromic glass, although it's actually more kind of glass laminate. But yeah it can be engineered in such a way as to change color depending on solar output or on the presents or absence of an electrical impulse. It's been around for about 20 years but it's only been practical for about 10.

    People have even already integrated it with transparent displays so all of the technology is already there. It just needs commercializing.

    Polestar apparently have a car with electrochromic glass in its windows so you can turn those into a computer display.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    but people have been cooking, monitoring the sky and roamed the world for some ten thousand years now. what's the innovation here?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    If I want to look at the world through a screen I'd stay home and watch a documentary.

    The camera they use will never have the acuity, color perception and dynamic range that your eyes have. It probably doesn't work super well in dark environment and it's definitely completely useless for stargazing.

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