CNet:
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:
Will Apple Glass succeed where Google Glass failed?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday May 31 2020, @01:47PM (1 child)
Google did not have always-on video recording. That would have smoked the battery life and storage (no cellular connectivity in any version, Wi-Fi isn't going to work great walking down a street). I believe there was also a limit on video length, so you would have to manually re-record after a few minutes.
If you want Augmented Reality, you need at least one front-facing camera. You should probably have two front-facing cameras for matching the FOV to eyesight and recording VR180 footage (WYSIWYG).
The Glasshole backlash was a combination of media hype with the stupid Borg-looking design. Make the entire lens a display instead of having an eyestrain-inducing corner Borg display, hide the cameras into the design (black frame), don't turn on a red LED when recording, and assaults will be reduced by 99.9%.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @07:47PM
What I'd want is always on recording with max res in a circular buffer (5 minutes?) and maybe lower res in a longer duration buffer/storage.
Then if I decide I want high res (or there's an auto trigger), the past 5 minutes will be in high res and till I decide to stop or the device hits a storage limit.
Also want the ability to turn on always on object, facial, voice and license plate recognition (can trigger the high res recording).
For bonus points add a "Rain Man" savant mode to do quick counting and quick math based on what you are looking at.
If those security cameras are going to track me, I'd want to be able to track everyone else too.