On the one hand I’d love a HUD which could, for example, remind me of the names of people I’d met before, or notes like ‘remember to talk to fred about his shrubbery’. Or tell me which shops I’m looking at are open, or give me directions to my destination… or random shit like the name of the plant I’m currently looking at. You can do some of this with a phone but in-vision is so much more useful IMO.
OTOH the people capable of creating such technology are meta, google… and I don’t trust them one bit.
Yeah, this. And I don’t need a fully immersive experience for that. Like, Glass had enough for that - a camera for facial recognition, a screen for info. You could do the same if you mounted a camera on an earbud and put the display on a smartwatch.
I don’t want Augmented Reality, I just want a dashboard/status bar for real life. A little screen in the corner of my view would solve that.
I, too, long for the future (a century from now, if the world weren’t burning) of an actually useful augmented reality that didn’t continuously advertise at me.
Apple is likely going this way as well. And honestly? I’d be down. I’d be paying an arm and a leg, and I wouldn’t have as much access as I’d like, but I know my data would be safe*. You can fault Apple for a lot of things, but they don’t fuck around with privacy, going as far as to reject the demands of the FBI to open up the phone of a dead terrorist.
*: Assuming Apple doesn’t 180 on its stance for privacy.
On the one hand I’d love a HUD which could, for example, remind me of the names of people I’d met before, or notes like ‘remember to talk to fred about his shrubbery’. Or tell me which shops I’m looking at are open, or give me directions to my destination… or random shit like the name of the plant I’m currently looking at. You can do some of this with a phone but in-vision is so much more useful IMO.
OTOH the people capable of creating such technology are meta, google… and I don’t trust them one bit.
Yeah, this. And I don’t need a fully immersive experience for that. Like, Glass had enough for that - a camera for facial recognition, a screen for info. You could do the same if you mounted a camera on an earbud and put the display on a smartwatch.
I don’t want Augmented Reality, I just want a dashboard/status bar for real life. A little screen in the corner of my view would solve that.
I, too, long for the future (a century from now, if the world weren’t burning) of an actually useful augmented reality that didn’t continuously advertise at me.
Apple is likely going this way as well. And honestly? I’d be down. I’d be paying an arm and a leg, and I wouldn’t have as much access as I’d like, but I know my data would be safe*. You can fault Apple for a lot of things, but they don’t fuck around with privacy, going as far as to reject the demands of the FBI to open up the phone of a dead terrorist.
*: Assuming Apple doesn’t 180 on its stance for privacy.