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Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That was the idea of Google glasses but it was too early and tech wasn't ready. It was gonna give you just enough useful info and get out of the way.

Plus Google haters made "glass-holes" viral.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure whether it would work better today.

What seems odd about the glasses is that they're essentially bodycams, but just unobtrusive enough not to be identified as such from a distance.

Someone walking around with an AR headset makes it very clear they're wearing a tech device, someone holding up a phone in front of them signals "I might be filming", but someone wearing slightly unusual glasses won't catch any attention. And that seems very weird to a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I thought Google Glass was a really cool idea. I actually liked Google back then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

God, I still dream of a device that works like we saw in the OG Glass concept video as opposed to the glorified Google Plus browser we got

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

OG Glass concept video

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be fair, that product was crazy expensive. It was basically exclusively for wealthy people. If it was cheaper, and easy to develop for, it would have been a huge success.

Look at what Apple has done here by comparison... This bullshit is even more expensive.