I don’t even get why companies are still pushing smart glasses. There’s no legitimate use for them on the consumer market. There’s already legislation being put into place to restrict what they can do because people immediately started using them for criminal activity. They’re just an obnoxious annoyance to everyone who isn’t wearing them 99% of the time.
I meant text translation obviously. You don’t need glasses for audio.
And yeah, smartwatches don’t have cameras. They aren’t doing anything that needs them. AR, by definition, requires it to know about its environment. It needs a camera at minimum. You could have just smart glasses that can display texts or something, but AR needs cameras.
What kind of information would my HUD show me, though? Like, idk, my heart rate? I don’t want my life to look like some first person shooter.
Where I would get something out of it, would be e.g. when I am repairing stuff to show me where’s what (even while thinking about it, I am not sure 😅). Or when I am looking at something in a store to automatically pull up reviews or comparisons. Or showing a manual and highlighting the right screws when building furniture or such.
Welp, not gonna shell out more than low digit hundred Euros for something like that, but all use cases which seem remotely cool…require a camera.
In my fantasyland you would pair them with another device, like a phone, and it would do all the work. The glasses would basically be nothing more than a receiver and a display
Yes, well that’s a fantasy when it comes to AR. It’s augmented reality, it needs to see the reality to augment it, else it’s just a static screen in front of your face. It isn’t anything new or interesting if you don’t have the camera in the front.
There was barely a legitimate use for smart phones at the time either. Times are changing and they are betting on smart glasses being the next big thing. I tend to agree with them to an extent but the current implementation leaves to be desired. There are still clearly some large hurdles.
I don’t even get why companies are still pushing smart glasses. There’s no legitimate use for them on the consumer market. There’s already legislation being put into place to restrict what they can do because people immediately started using them for criminal activity. They’re just an obnoxious annoyance to everyone who isn’t wearing them 99% of the time.
I’d be interested in them for like hud reasons but I wouldn’t want a camera or mic in them which is what they seem to think people want.
It requires a camera to do any remotely useful HUD stuff. If you want automatic translation, or in-world displays, it needs to see the world.
Smartwatches don’t have cameras for the most part, smartglasses don’t need them either. Also a camera isn’t required for audio translation.
I meant text translation obviously. You don’t need glasses for audio.
And yeah, smartwatches don’t have cameras. They aren’t doing anything that needs them. AR, by definition, requires it to know about its environment. It needs a camera at minimum. You could have just smart glasses that can display texts or something, but AR needs cameras.
Smartglasses don’t need to be AR though, you could make one that is just a HUD that displays information
What kind of information would my HUD show me, though? Like, idk, my heart rate? I don’t want my life to look like some first person shooter.
Where I would get something out of it, would be e.g. when I am repairing stuff to show me where’s what (even while thinking about it, I am not sure 😅). Or when I am looking at something in a store to automatically pull up reviews or comparisons. Or showing a manual and highlighting the right screws when building furniture or such.
Welp, not gonna shell out more than low digit hundred Euros for something like that, but all use cases which seem remotely cool…require a camera.
In my fantasyland you would pair them with another device, like a phone, and it would do all the work. The glasses would basically be nothing more than a receiver and a display
Yes, well that’s a fantasy when it comes to AR. It’s augmented reality, it needs to see the reality to augment it, else it’s just a static screen in front of your face. It isn’t anything new or interesting if you don’t have the camera in the front.
Yeah I don’t want any of that though
Just a wireless HUD, with eye tracking, and agnostic to connected tech. (Camera is needed for this, but needs a manual kill switch on the device)
That is all that is needed from the glasses.
Wearable tech is going to need to be modular, replaceable, and reparable…
All things big tech companies hate right now.
An inward facing eye camera is not an issue.
A hud would be cool I suppose. You never know when you need to check someone’s power level.
There was barely a legitimate use for smart phones at the time either. Times are changing and they are betting on smart glasses being the next big thing. I tend to agree with them to an extent but the current implementation leaves to be desired. There are still clearly some large hurdles.