Apple's Internal Survey About Smart Glasses Hints at Future Product Plans

[obezcinnet]

NO mass market. Product will die faster than the useless Vision Pro.

This sounds extremely uninformed. I recommend you look up how good Meta is doing with their Rayban products. I own one and it is the future of wearable AI devices. HUGE mass market for a product that looks and feels like something you would wear without the AI/AR functionality, but comes with all those things. AR will probably will take another decade, but wearable AI in smart glasses is a proven concept.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Who even put their phone like that. Already being pointless. You are also not considering the distortion, FOV, graphics, and more. Clearly, you never used AR glasses after all.

The discussion is not about AR glasses...

 

[subjonas]

People. Human beings. They're outside right now, you can go look at them.


All the things you're talking about apply to VR, like the Vision Pro and Meta Quest, not AR. AR glasses (and lets be clear, this article doesn't even mention visuals, it specifically talks about being like Meta's Rayban glasses) do not have these issues because you are by definition looking at the real world. If you think these are dangerous, we better ban all types of glasses, including sunglasses, because that's the level of distortion you're getting worked up over.

I agree on your point that AR glasses aren't any more of a safety concern than a phone--probably just depends how you (mis)use them, just like a phone--and possibly even safer than a phone.
But I'd just point out that all of today's "AR" glasses (that I know of) do have some level of distortion/visual interference besides tint (which they all have as well), as a side effect of the tech required to overlay digital projections. Usually it's in the form of reflection from the angled projection lenses. In more advanced glasses like Meta's Orion, apparently there's some flare in the glasses lenses themselves. But obviously the aim is to be able to see through AR glasses as clearly as normal glasses, and it'll probably get there someday.

 

[boss.king]

I agree on your point that AR glasses aren't any more of a safety concern than a phone--probably just depends how you (mis)use them, just like a phone--and possibly even safer than a phone.
But I'd just point out that all of today's "AR" glasses (that I know of) do have some level of distortion/visual interference besides tint (which they all have as well), as a side effect of the tech required to overlay digital projections. Usually it's in the form of reflection from the angled projection lenses. In more advanced glasses like Meta's Orion, apparently there's some flare in the glasses lenses themselves. But obviously the aim is to be able to see through AR glasses as clearly as normal glasses, and it'll probably get there someday.

That's a totally fair point. There are exceedingly few examples of AR glasses out there, especially consumer-ready ones, but if I had to guess I'd say any Apple-made AR glasses (that incorporate a visual component) would probably have Orion-level issues (i.e. minor annoyances compared to what most of the market is putting out now and basically negligible compared to VR or just holding up a phone).

 

[subjonas]

I really don't like the possibility that anyone looking at me could be recording me or my kin. I hope camera glasses die like Google Glasses did, unless they figure out a way to reasonably ensure privacy, or make it extremely obvious they are recording, obvious enough to notice even through peripheral vision.

 

[NYCValkyrie]

If they could just nail recording video well from glasses… I think that would be the biggest selling point.

This is actually what it should NOT do. At least not without proper guardrails. Too many pervs out there. Like in Japan, you can not disable the camera sounds because men were taking photos of women up their shirts, etc. It just needs to loudly say - YOU ARE BEING RECORDED or have a flashing red light that can't be covered up.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

I agree on your point that AR glasses aren't any more of a safety concern than a phone--probably just depends how you (mis)use them, just like a phone--and possibly even safer than a phone.
But I'd just point out that all of today's "AR" glasses (that I know of) do have some level of distortion/visual interference besides tint (which they all have as well), as a side effect of the tech required to overlay digital projections. Usually it's in the form of reflection from the angled projection lenses. In more advanced glasses like Meta's Orion, apparently there's some flare in the glasses lenses themselves. But obviously the aim is to be able to see through AR glasses as clearly as normal glasses, and it'll probably get there someday.

AR glasses are not the topic here.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

This is actually what it should NOT do. At least not without proper guardrails. Too many pervs out there. Like in Japan, you can not disable the camera sounds because men were taking photos of women up their shirts, etc. It just needs to loudly say - YOU ARE BEING RECORDED or have a flashing red light that can't be covered up.

These are glasses. Some perv with glasses on cannot look up a skirt.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

I really don't like the possibility that anyone looking at me could be recording me or my kin. I hope camera glasses die like Google Glasses did, unless they figure out a way to reasonably ensure privacy, or make it extremely obvious they are recording, obvious enough to notice even through peripheral vision.

Get over it. Hideable cameras have existed for decades.

 

[subjonas]

AR glasses are not the topic here.

I know, it's a side conversation.

 

[subjonas]

Get over it. Hideable cameras have existed for decades.

Recording with hidden cameras is illegal where I am.

 

[NYCValkyrie]

Get over it. Hideable cameras have existed for decades.

And it is illegal. But I guess we know what kind of person you are.

 

[richinaus]

Unfortunately Apple has fallen years behind in its development of products. This is evident in its foldable iPhone, Apple glasses etc
Hopefully Apple make up the time that it’s lost

Could have said the same for a phone and portable music player.......

 

[jsnuff1]

Sigh sad to see what Apple has become...from Jobs "customers dont know what they want, we make what they will want" to "we now survey our employees to figure out what to build next"