Can’t wait to have 3D “personalized” ad billboards follow me everywhere and “pause” my walking directions until I watch a 30-second unskippable commercial. The VR glasses future is exciting no doubt: too bad however that it is being ushered in by two surveillance, I mean, advertising companies (Google and Facebook).
1. Ok, the subtitles are in the lady's bust area, does that mean that glassholes 2.0 will look down there when they talk with someone?<p>2. The popup on the bottom right corner "Gemini start translate" is black on top of light background, does that mean that these new glasses can display dark on top of light background? I thought this was impossible with current technology. Or was it faked like magic leap faked the jumping whale demo?
How they usually address the fact that 50% of their target market is already wearing glasses? Would they just ignore that 50% in their first iteration and then sell customised smart glasses ?
Aren't these just the xreal aura's? I like AR glasses, but I don't really want a camera in them. Especially because of the glasshole effect.
Sounds like the plan is an attempt to position Gemini as a more useful Siri-like assistant by giving it better input and output capabilities in the form of AR glasses
Smart Glasses 2: Revenge of the Glassholes<p>Will it take off as a general consumer product this time? Probably, for some (unfortunately).<p>It will create a whole new class of distracted people in traffic, that's for sure. Someone lost in a smartphone screen is at least visually recognisable (“Better look out for that smombie about to cross…”), but someone dutifully following Google Maps directions on one of these could actually look like they are aware of their surroundings, whilst their full attention is fixed on the little map widget.
I see that as a dystopian future. Google wants to model entire cities in real time, just like London with all the cameras everywhere, but for the profit of a private company and three letter agencies.<p>It used to be that in a small village everyone knew what everyone else was doing. Now with cloud connected cameras it will be impossible to have privacy on cities. A google camera will see and follow you anywhere you go. They will recognise you, they will track your movement when you go out of reach of one camera into another.<p>That is too much power and we should not give it to anyone, public or private.