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Adastehc t1_ir9sq6c wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in META QUEST PRO mixed reality passthrough by Shelfrock77

doubt we'll see people with headsets going around in public anytime soon. once AR can be put into your normal glasses, then it'd REALLY take off.

a shift in culture might appear thatll make big headsets acceptable tho ,who knows 💀💀

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Kaarssteun t1_ir9yq05 wrote

culture will likely shift even further. Back when cell phones became available, people said "No way do people want to carry that thing with them everywhere! The office will follow me wherever I go!"

Look how that's turned out.

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fukthx t1_ira0myp wrote

> Back when cell phones became available, people said "No way do people want to carry that thing with them everywhere!

but that was maybe because first were briefcase size phones?

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Kaarssteun t1_ira2ik0 wrote

true, but even with smaller cell phones, people still had the "Office following me everywhere" worry

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UltraHawk_DnB t1_ira4i94 wrote

Turns out not everyone works office jobs. AI will definitely hit in that department too

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Optional_Joystick t1_irakz6b wrote

To be fair, I do really hate how the office follows me wherever I go.

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ShadowRazz t1_irb0bwe wrote

I had a boss imply you should always be available on skype

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biologischeavocado t1_irc7m0n wrote

Many years ago I read about the concept of engineered monkeys with boosted intelligence. They would sit behind a computer screen and work all day. This was supposed to be ethical because they would be engineered to like the work.

Now my office has taken over my home and my privacy is violated all of the time, I often think of these monkeys.

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Optional_Joystick t1_ireosej wrote

I keep thinking of the same concept, except with GAI instead of monkeys.

But I also know that if I wasn't continually assigned busywork I might look for things to improve at my company, so maybe it's fine...

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ObjectiveDeal t1_irc3s7u wrote

Because a phone is now a small pc. You have movies music and games everywhere you go .

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ShadowRazz t1_irb06yh wrote

TBF at the time those phones were giant bricks.

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[deleted] t1_ira3nb2 wrote

I dunno theres still the big question of walking into bathrooms with these things and how to actually enforce it. With a phone its obvious when you're using it for recording video. Even audio is a bit more obvious because if you just had the thing in your pocket, audio will be muffled.

So people are not going to feel comfortable seeing all these folks with glasses on not knowing who is seeing what and why.

But you're right, people here need to realize nobody is going to walk around wearing huge headsets.

Now, something like driving with this on could potentially be really nice because you could maybe figure out a way to virtually remove some of your blindspots, like the two support beams at the edge of your windshield... maybe.

But even without that it could be useful, my GPS and speedometer being there would really remove the need for me to move my eyes completely away from the road. It allows me to get the information I need while still maintaining good peripheral vision.

But at the same time self driving cars are becoming a thing...

Cycling with this could be cool too, for the same reasons.

Beyond that, I see these taking off in workplaces and niches first

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superluminary t1_ira71qx wrote

It opens up another realm of stalking. It’ll be doing facial recognition and automatically tagging people with their Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, OF, etc.

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[deleted] t1_ira9psh wrote

Use the NSFW broadcaster extension to publicly broadcast your sexual desires to those who seek them.

Oh god

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GinchAnon t1_irajvmk wrote

I think that there is a legitimate problem to that, and I really have no idea how to solve it that doesn't just have a degree of trust that people won't circumvent it for their device.

I could also see that turning out to not be as big of an issue as people might expect.

if we can get to having real time processed pass through with little enough lag and reliable enough, basically simulating blind-spot correction that we naturally have, and applying it to things like support beams in a car, seems like it should be doable and useful.

though keeping it safe when such mechanisms FAIL is where it could be really tricky.

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[deleted] t1_iralq7p wrote

>though keeping it safe when such mechanisms FAIL is where it could be really tricky.

100% - oh yeah. I almost wonder if - especially if you're using it for driving that it could have a manual eject that flips the lenses out so it's impossible for it to obstruct your eyes. Imagine that shit just filled the entire thing with some crash screen or popup, my god. You want to be able to quickly and physically press a button or something. Although if they're simple glasses you could just smack em off and grab the wheel.

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lohvei0r t1_ir9u1wd wrote

AR helmets will hit first

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Mellow_Sunflower t1_iradxzt wrote

The new age walkman device

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Quealdlor t1_iriska8 wrote

In the past, people wore walkmans and discmans and even boomboxes, so it's not that farfetched to imagine people walking with glasses connected with a wire to a pocket computer, like a smartphone + wired headphones today.

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blxoom t1_irailqk wrote

i can't wait for it. the internet and the real world will finally merge into one, and it'll be outstandingly beautiful. customizing the real world to how you like, being in constant contact with people no matter where you are, being able to sit at a table and see someone from the other side of the world sitting across from you... so many possibilities, it's quite exciting

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agsarria t1_irc0w15 wrote

I saw a dude wearing a vr headset down the street the other day, it was pretty hilarious though (Barcelona, Spain)

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Quealdlor t1_irisbre wrote

Yeah, there would need to be a large shift in our culture for people to wear headsets outdoors. Unless they are like normal glasses today. I would certainly prefer to wear slick, lightweight glasses than something like Quest 2. But glasses would need outside processing, because you wouldn't put a 10-watt SoC inside glasses. I think that Apple may have an answer to the problem, we'll see. For sure M2 would not be enough.

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