The one limitation I canβt figure out how any sort of augmented reality (and all the realities that require a headset) will surpass is purely biological. That the brain registers something as being at a distance while it is actually less than an inch away from the eye. This canβt be sustained for long hours the same way people spend in front of screens I think without causing serious physical discomfort. Unless humans evolve into that through extended usage and we start introducing babies to it
The part about βnice shit is better than not-nice shitβ really hits home.
Iβm always amazed how many strategies businesses can cook up that have fully zero to do with making a good thing (and are actively harmful to it).
Iβm told that as a designer I should learn more about business but whenever I start to think about it my brain goes: βPeople like good things. They pay you. More good. More pay.β
Also, Iβm pretty excited to try out Appleβs eye barnacles.
Replacing the smartphone screen with a wearable is the dream of course. But, in the interim, I strongly suspect with your 'shoes' use case example, an AR app will first scan a user's existing wardrobe/shoe rack/hallway floor etc to determine their footwear preferences. So such devices will ramp up intrusiveness to a new level of privacy destruction. Walking down a street with any later AR wearable iterations will become a tedious exercise in pop-up advertising nullification. I can't wait.
Good analysis. One relevant thought experiment: Can you imagine a world in which Vision makes reading better? After considering this for a few minutes I think it might be a category error - reading itself is a technology for transmitting information and/or experiencing narrative. Both can be done via Vision, but it probably wonβt look like scanning horizontal lines of text. I wonder how well-trodden categories like news, opinion, and documentary journalism will evolve.
Clunky headsets will never catch on. Just like shutter glasses from the 90s. A novelty, it will wear off fast. Once you shrink it down to contact lenses for display and separate processing units as attachable explants (everyone will have at least one implant that serves as a BMI) and attach said explants outside your skull, head, wherever to interface with the BMI and the contact lenses... welcome to the future. Sounds like Neuromancer?
Nobody's gonna need shoes anymore! :D
The one limitation I canβt figure out how any sort of augmented reality (and all the realities that require a headset) will surpass is purely biological. That the brain registers something as being at a distance while it is actually less than an inch away from the eye. This canβt be sustained for long hours the same way people spend in front of screens I think without causing serious physical discomfort. Unless humans evolve into that through extended usage and we start introducing babies to it
I am the only one who finds this all extremely unsettling? Never mind how it will dumb down society! Yikes.
The part about βnice shit is better than not-nice shitβ really hits home.
Iβm always amazed how many strategies businesses can cook up that have fully zero to do with making a good thing (and are actively harmful to it).
Iβm told that as a designer I should learn more about business but whenever I start to think about it my brain goes: βPeople like good things. They pay you. More good. More pay.β
Also, Iβm pretty excited to try out Appleβs eye barnacles.
Replacing the smartphone screen with a wearable is the dream of course. But, in the interim, I strongly suspect with your 'shoes' use case example, an AR app will first scan a user's existing wardrobe/shoe rack/hallway floor etc to determine their footwear preferences. So such devices will ramp up intrusiveness to a new level of privacy destruction. Walking down a street with any later AR wearable iterations will become a tedious exercise in pop-up advertising nullification. I can't wait.
Good analysis. One relevant thought experiment: Can you imagine a world in which Vision makes reading better? After considering this for a few minutes I think it might be a category error - reading itself is a technology for transmitting information and/or experiencing narrative. Both can be done via Vision, but it probably wonβt look like scanning horizontal lines of text. I wonder how well-trodden categories like news, opinion, and documentary journalism will evolve.
All great art divides the audience. This is no different.
ColdFusion brought a good technical analysis and your piece points me back to John Palmers two spatial interfaces and software pieces
Clunky headsets will never catch on. Just like shutter glasses from the 90s. A novelty, it will wear off fast. Once you shrink it down to contact lenses for display and separate processing units as attachable explants (everyone will have at least one implant that serves as a BMI) and attach said explants outside your skull, head, wherever to interface with the BMI and the contact lenses... welcome to the future. Sounds like Neuromancer?