Looked interesting until I saw the price and what they actually looked like on someones face. Better than a VR headset for sure, but still not "walk around town without getting weird looks" better.
Ugh, a low-FoV trackingless HUD, same as have been available for the last couple of decades (though not with the Tiny Awful Portable Computer in the headband rather than a belt unit), except now they're lying by calling it AR to ride the premature marketing hype wave.
Unless you already have a system using an existing glasses HUD, and want to switch it to Android and get rid of the belt-box, there's basically no reason to buy this.
Oh Joy! Another AR device with all the immersive drama that can be mustered out of a floating postage stamp. ( thousands of dollars for the privilege of developing on a vapor product. Because providing for developers respected as partners is out of the question with the new developer preview paradigm )
I will gladly pay however! Just the thought of coding/developing intensely immersive content on such a device has me giddy with anticipation. I fancy a daydream starring all the insufferable tools one might experience on a daily basis seemingly "talking to themselves" loudly out in public spaces ( into their blue tooth earpieces )...
Where in my fantasy... their socially oblivious solo-ego displays in combination with my addictive content immersions cause them to walk clueless into rush hour traffic where society if freed from their loud vainglorious and obtuse conversations with invisible associates:
When large dump-trucks or speeding school buses flatten them into pancakes! Along with their blue tooth headsets and Alternate Reality glasses. The afterlife after being flattened because u walked out into traffic oblivious to everyone around you! Wham! Yep that would be a fine Alternate reality. :)
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megadirk - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
Looked interesting until I saw the price and what they actually looked like on someones face. Better than a VR headset for sure, but still not "walk around town without getting weird looks" better.Pinn - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
Had a coworker show me google glass awhile back. See nothing new here.pixelstuff - Tuesday, January 9, 2018 - link
I have a feeling that Magic Leap will provide the true break through we need for AR. See if you guys can get a hands on demo with those guys somehow.pdf - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
Look like more HUD than AR to me, thoroughly uninteresting until we can get some actual augmentation to our reality.edzieba - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
Ugh, a low-FoV trackingless HUD, same as have been available for the last couple of decades (though not with the Tiny Awful Portable Computer in the headband rather than a belt unit), except now they're lying by calling it AR to ride the premature marketing hype wave.Unless you already have a system using an existing glasses HUD, and want to switch it to Android and get rid of the belt-box, there's basically no reason to buy this.
theuglyman0war - Thursday, January 18, 2018 - link
Oh Joy! Another AR device with all the immersive drama that can be mustered out of a floating postage stamp. ( thousands of dollars for the privilege of developing on a vapor product. Because providing for developers respected as partners is out of the question with the new developer preview paradigm )I will gladly pay however!
Just the thought of coding/developing intensely immersive content on such a device has me giddy with anticipation.
I fancy a daydream starring all the insufferable tools one might experience on a daily basis seemingly "talking to themselves" loudly out in public spaces ( into their blue tooth earpieces )...
Where in my fantasy...
their socially oblivious solo-ego displays in combination with my addictive content immersions cause them to walk clueless into rush hour traffic where society if freed from their loud vainglorious and obtuse conversations with invisible associates:
When large dump-trucks or speeding school buses flatten them into pancakes! Along with their blue tooth headsets and Alternate Reality glasses. The afterlife after being flattened because u walked out into traffic oblivious to everyone around you! Wham! Yep that would be a fine Alternate reality. :)
Damn..
Now I have guilt.