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Apple Vision augmented reality headset maybe another Google Glass failure.

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Bud:
I just lived long enough to become capable to smell bullshit, that is all.

PlainName:
Man with a hammer, and all that.

Wil_Bloodworth:

--- Quote from: PlainName on February 23, 2024, 02:54:06 pm ---Remember when a mobile phone involved a separate brick (literally the size of one) with the big handset joined to it with a curly cable? "Way too heavy and bulky" would describe them perfectly, and yet people bought and used them.

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I had one of those bag phones... and it sucked.  Had I known back then how bad they sucked, I would have not purchased one and it was very expensive.  Motorola something I think.  It was circa 1991 if I remember correctly.

I'm not hating on Apple's "try" but you won't see me walking around in public with one of these douchsets on my head.  I'm sure there are very practical and ideal use cases for these in the various scientific communities though.  They're only going to improve but it might take a while to get something the average user is willing to accept... this isn't it IMO.

- Wil

David Aurora:

--- Quote from: PlainName on February 22, 2024, 06:28:46 pm ---
--- Quote ---in my opinion VR  reality headsets are for game arcades, theme park attractions.
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Don't you think it would be cool to have your scope display right in front of your nose when your head is inside some cabinet as you try to fault find?

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This kind of stuff is what I was really excited about when they first announced it.

And even putting aside scope/meter integration which I suspect will be pretty niche and clunky (if any T&M companies support it at all), just being able to display usual workflow stuff like schematics/board layouts/job notes on one of these would be amazing. I've tried so many monitor positions around the workshop and I still constantly find myself grabbing my laptop or iPad or phone mid job and then trying to prop those up somewhere while I work. And even then as soon as I move along the bench to test something with a different piece of T&M gear then I'm moving stuff again so I can see it.

So yeah, the idea of wearing one of these and just moving my eyes or turning my head and seeing all the info I need crystal clear no matter where I am in the lab sounds amazing to me.

Berni:
This thing is just a impressive tech demo rather than actual useful product.

The stuff that works on it is definitely impressive. However it is still more of a solution looking for a problem. So far the only problem it solves well is giving you a giant screen without needing the physical space for one or having to transport it (Like on an airplane or in a hotel room).

Having a screen in the corner of your vision while you work is an excellent use case for augmented reality. However needing to look at your work in a blurry way trough passtrough cameras and having this big thing strapped to your face is a high price to pay for the benefit of extra displays in your vision.

We still have to give it a decade or so for tech to catch up before we get a compact pair of glasses with high quality augmented reality displays inside them.

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