Here AR is a push to normalize VR in different settings where you need to pay attention to what’s outside your googles. Even in social ones - that’s why they tried these eyes on the surface. I’m sceptical some would wear them daily while doing chores, but I was also sceptical about people casually talking to their BT airpods on the street.
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lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 4 months agoSame thought. I don’t really care much about the AR aspects of VR googles. I feel like I can see why people might game in them, etc, but for AR stuff I don’t really get the appeal. I did recently see a walkthrough of how to use and the features of the Apple Vision Pro and I can’t deny, the tech itself is really cool, I was pretty excited seeing the walkthrough. I just don’t really care about the applications of that tech yet.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bluetooth headsets have existed for eons at this point. People walking around with airpods isn’t really that much of a step.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yes, and I used one. But in Nokia days it was mostly work related. You didn’t usually stumble upon that many persons talking to air in public. Now writing voice messages and chatting via headset is way more normalised.
GigglyBobble@kbin.social 4 months ago
Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it's only AR that'll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.
lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Sure, but in its current goggle form, I’m probably not gonna do that. I’m more okay wearing goggles by myself to game in, than walk around with goggles to interact with virtual stuff in a real environment. I’m a huge SciFi fan, and I see the potential for the future tech, just not there right now. Still doesn’t make the current interaction any less impressive, the tech inside the apple vision pro and the programming making it all work is extremely impressive to me.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I get the sense XR headsets are more for corporate and military/police customers.
pycorax@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yea and even then pass through AR sucks for those use cases. I worked in the industry for a bit and every client always wanted transparent displays because that human face to face connection was way too important to forgo.