Meta: “Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses”
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/amp/
Meta: “Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses”
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/amp/
Didn’t Google try this a decade ago with Google Glass, but recieved such a negative response over privacy concerns that it abandoned the project.
Am I remembering this wrong? Have people’s views on privacy changed to the point where this is acceptable? Does Meta not have the features that Google did which prompted to backlash?
Google Glass was not AR. They were “smart glasses” with severely limited functionality for an extremely high price. That’s mainly why they failed, not the privacy backlash. The majority of people don’t care about privacy, just look at what information people put on the Internet.
They did, and it was. Coined the term ‘glassholes’
And Snapchat tried it with their uh, whatever the hell they called it and pretty much ended the same way.
Basically, it’s an easy way to put ‘giant dipshit’ on your forehead and make people avoid you.
I remember that, for a while, you’d see “No Google Glass” at some clubs and bars. People really hated it.
Google glass failed for many reasons, but I don’t think privacy was one of them. Price and usefulness were the two big reasons. Tech has advanced a lot in 10 years, so the usefulness and video quality has definitely advanced; but the ratio of price to usefulness is probably not right yet.
I think we’re almost there. Probably slightly bulkier fashion needs to be normalised to make this acceptable, but the potential applications of AR are actually cool. Meta is a privacy nightmare, but they are pushing R&D in the VR space and I think its at least notable. I don’t like trusting any megacorp with my data but its going to be a big company that makes commercial AR a reality.
Unless this solves the main problems of headaches, batter life, and looking like a fucking idiot it’ll fail just like Google did.
That said Google glass (2014)and this are about 10y apart in technology advances.