I feel like there is a lot pf potential for display-based AR in a glasses form factor. I wouldn't want to dismiss that outright. However, the concern about sensors (cameras and microphones) in the glasses is also real, despite them adding potentially the most value to those devices.

The tech will make its way into commercial applications and assistive technology. Beyind that, things can go a couple of ways:

- There is a killer application with mass appeal and thise glasses become common in public

- Consumer devices will lose their cameras due to large scale pushback. This will kill one of their major AI-related selling points (images as context). Microphines, although potentially equally intrusive, are more likely to stay.

- Comsumer devices will fade away in their entirety.

The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.

Since when was looking ridiculous a hindrance to being fashionable?

links to pages which ask if they can send you notifications should be insta-flagged + banned on hn

> Sorry for exposing you to this image

The photo captions are hilarious: "Style icons"; "Ahead of his time"

This stuff is probably inevitable since economics will drive data collection. What we really need is a digital bill of rights to protect everyone. Recording in public without consent also needs to end.

Yesterday's story about airpods causing wearers to isolate themselves and become unhappier comes to mind. Headphones in your ears, display in your glasses... about the only way to connect with anyone will be to smell really bad I guess.

I would encourage anyone who has a chance to book a Vision Pro demo at an Apple Store. It changed my mind in the following way:

Previously, I thought AVPs were expensive, ridiculous and useless. Now I think they are expensive and still mostly ridiculous and useless.

I saw the immersive movies and the immersive sports experiences. If they had AVP support for MLB/NBA games in my market I would absolutely buy a subscription. I think they have Lakers now but I don’t care about that.

From what I understand, there’s still a chicken and egg problem for Meta and Apple with regards to content and devices. It sucks because both companies are flush and could fix it if they wanted to.

The device itself still costs too much though.

I'm rooting for this general class of technology as a platform for sensory augmentation for the blind. I don't know exactly what sonic encoding of spatial information is exactly ideal — I suspect it's something echo-like, only slowed-down — but it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to develop it and support it on commodity hardware. Please no Meta login, though.