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First came VR. Then came a wave of AR headsets that were high-priced and full of promises of wild mixed reality worlds. Apple now seems to be readying its own pair of smart glasses, at long last, seven years after Google Glass and four years after the debut of Oculus Rift. These reports have extended back for several years, including a story broken by CNET's Shara Tibken in 2018.
Apple has been in the wings all this time without any headset at all, although the company's aspirations in AR have been clear and well-telegraphed on iPhones and iPads for years. Each year, Apple's made significant strides on iOS with its AR tools.
The article dives into these topics at some depth:
- Normal glasses, first, with a normal name
- Lower cost than you'd think?
- iPhone-powered
- A world of QR codes, and maybe location-aware objects
- Apple's newest iPad has the sensor tech it needs
- How bleeding-edge will the visuals be?
- Look to AirPods for ease of use -- and audio augmented reality
- Apple Watch and AirPods could be great Glass companions
- Could Qualcomm and Apple's reconciliation also be about XR?
- Expect the iPhone to support other VR and AR, too
- Launch date: Still could be a year away
Will Apple Glass succeed where Google Glass failed?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:35PM (3 children)
So there will be cameras in the glasses then. Who owns the pictures that gets taken non-stop? All you see is now the property/copyrighted material of Apple or you? All your data belongs to us?
(Score: 2) by helel on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:22PM (2 children)
Apple has a better track record with these things than the other big tech companies. Look at the upset about iPhone vs Android location tracking - Google was caught tracking and storing your location on their server as part of their profile on you. Meanwhile Apple was caught storing a location history file locally on your iPhone. Both are some degree of privacy violation but there's a night and day difference between the company uploading private data to analyze on their servers and merely storing it locally on your device without your knowledge.
That is to say, I fully expect the pictures these things take to stay with you unless you turn on some form of cloud syncing or use a service such as Siri that explicitly warns you that the images will be uploaded. Position being nine tenths of the law, I think the photos will be yours.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Saturday May 30 2020, @06:57PM (1 child)
Perhaps it's a matter of how many of these glasses they actually plan on shipping. Do they seem them being as common as iphones eventually (or a replacement for said device -- cause why have a phone when you can just talk into your glasses). I guess it might matter if say the glasses are cloud-synced (damn that will be a lot of images/data depending on how fast it takes images and if they are all kept -- but it has to be fairly often if it's supposed to catch QR codes live etc -- which in turn will or could be really annoying -- popup QR codes).
So what happens if you take these to the movies or something? Did you just cam the movie? What about when you view or watch other copyrighted material or just see something that is supposed to have some kind of DRM protection that you just then visually broke? Possibly they don't care or the implications are just to weird. Perhaps the storage locally will be so small that it will only hold a very brief time period before it gets overwritten -- until you buy the memory expansion for your glasses (or can perhaps somehow hook it up to another device with more storage -- say sync it with your phone that has and can be upgraded with a lot more storage).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @08:49PM
Apple, so there won't be local storage upgrades, all icloud.