Brilliant, yet again. I adore how wonderfully you weave in the ridiculous paradoxes of us giant apes.
Side note... A friend recently sent me a link to a music notation app/software. And okay, I've seen plenty of musicians in the orchestra pit using iPads to play from (with a handy foot pedal to 'turn the pages'). Handy. (or footy...)
But then, upon scrolling all the way down their webpage, I noticed that they also make a version of their software for the Apple Vision thingy. My brain went into imagining an entire symphony with those damn things on, and I couldn't handle the dystopic vision, so I closed the computer with, 'well, that's enough internet for the day'...
...oh my gosh...what might be even sadder/scarier is to imagine is an audience in those things instead!?!...I heard someone daydreaming about the future of airlines being we all get one of those masks for the flight...why not build us wings instead?...we have misguided priorities in tech...
I really don't see how these are going to take off apart from a clever gimmick... I went to a VR experience recently that 'took me to the International Space Station'. I put on the VR headset, with headphones, cameras, and tracking stuff for The System to know where I was in the room (and to sync up with my kiddo's VR headset). The visuals were pretty spectacular, and the closest I'll ever come to being at the ISS, because really... But the whole 'experience' was 45 mins. My kiddo's head started hurting from the extra weight and being squished after 30 mins, and mine after 40. There's no way I'll be able to handle watching a full movie wearing one of those, let alone do the whole Augmented Reality all the time... And that's just basic body logistics, not even counting the fact that un-augmented reality is pretty freakin' cool...
...yeah but over time the weight will get less, the experience more fine tuned, and the ease of access more "easy"...at this point i just can't see how this much money invested into an idea fails to take traction...i remember scoffing at bottled water when it first began to unleash on the suburbs in the 90's...i thought to myself what a greedy thing, no way everyone will just accept this...and yet here we are...
Dang... I hope you're wrong... Like... I have an old Apple Watch, something I was quite excited about getting back in 2018... It's starting to not do everything now, and while I'm still using it to track my activity, I'm unlikely to buy another one once this one dies... It's handy to have the messages come to my wrist -- until it isn't... I dunno... Maybe more and more people will try these things and then go 'meh, don't need another one...'?
Either that, or we'll have a new version of the Amish in those of us who decide against all the newfangled stuffs...
“What is it about reality that requires enhancement?” If I were independently wealthy I’d rent all the billboards in Silicon Valley and put this one sentence up on all of them. Your articles are my weekly escape from realty. It would be a very interesting experiment to tell people that a new kind of headset had been invented that when you put it on reveals the miracle of creation hidden in the ordinary world. They would put it on, but the screen would only project your actual environment exactly as it is. Then we’d see how people described their experience of augmented (actually unenhanced) reality.
...i love that idea...i also love the idea of strapping an 80lb. piece of wood to Tim Cook's head and asking him to tell me what he sees for the next hour...
…a local reality called hike presented by a product called legs…
hahahaha excellent read
...love using me some legs...
...and you know how I feel about them ;)
Brilliant, yet again. I adore how wonderfully you weave in the ridiculous paradoxes of us giant apes.
Side note... A friend recently sent me a link to a music notation app/software. And okay, I've seen plenty of musicians in the orchestra pit using iPads to play from (with a handy foot pedal to 'turn the pages'). Handy. (or footy...)
But then, upon scrolling all the way down their webpage, I noticed that they also make a version of their software for the Apple Vision thingy. My brain went into imagining an entire symphony with those damn things on, and I couldn't handle the dystopic vision, so I closed the computer with, 'well, that's enough internet for the day'...
...oh my gosh...what might be even sadder/scarier is to imagine is an audience in those things instead!?!...I heard someone daydreaming about the future of airlines being we all get one of those masks for the flight...why not build us wings instead?...we have misguided priorities in tech...
I really don't see how these are going to take off apart from a clever gimmick... I went to a VR experience recently that 'took me to the International Space Station'. I put on the VR headset, with headphones, cameras, and tracking stuff for The System to know where I was in the room (and to sync up with my kiddo's VR headset). The visuals were pretty spectacular, and the closest I'll ever come to being at the ISS, because really... But the whole 'experience' was 45 mins. My kiddo's head started hurting from the extra weight and being squished after 30 mins, and mine after 40. There's no way I'll be able to handle watching a full movie wearing one of those, let alone do the whole Augmented Reality all the time... And that's just basic body logistics, not even counting the fact that un-augmented reality is pretty freakin' cool...
...yeah but over time the weight will get less, the experience more fine tuned, and the ease of access more "easy"...at this point i just can't see how this much money invested into an idea fails to take traction...i remember scoffing at bottled water when it first began to unleash on the suburbs in the 90's...i thought to myself what a greedy thing, no way everyone will just accept this...and yet here we are...
Dang... I hope you're wrong... Like... I have an old Apple Watch, something I was quite excited about getting back in 2018... It's starting to not do everything now, and while I'm still using it to track my activity, I'm unlikely to buy another one once this one dies... It's handy to have the messages come to my wrist -- until it isn't... I dunno... Maybe more and more people will try these things and then go 'meh, don't need another one...'?
Either that, or we'll have a new version of the Amish in those of us who decide against all the newfangled stuffs...
...i am so down to hang out with the nu amish...
“What is it about reality that requires enhancement?” If I were independently wealthy I’d rent all the billboards in Silicon Valley and put this one sentence up on all of them. Your articles are my weekly escape from realty. It would be a very interesting experiment to tell people that a new kind of headset had been invented that when you put it on reveals the miracle of creation hidden in the ordinary world. They would put it on, but the screen would only project your actual environment exactly as it is. Then we’d see how people described their experience of augmented (actually unenhanced) reality.
...i love that idea...i also love the idea of strapping an 80lb. piece of wood to Tim Cook's head and asking him to tell me what he sees for the next hour...