A Casey Neistat Vision Pro video posted over the weekend was, he says, simply intended to be a piece of silly fun – wearing the device while catching metro trains and walking through Times Square.
But he said that in the course of making the video, he had a totally unexpected experience, which convinced him that this type of device is the future of computing…
I’m gonna say it. Google did it first. Every concern and complaint Google Glass for apply to this too. Except not is a full ski goggles…
I love tech, but walking around in public with these things is the dorkiest thing I’ve seen.
Google was WAY to early and severely limited in what it could do. A tiny display in the corner of the eye is just not getting anyone excited. And because it was Google who made it, it was also creepy.
Of course you won’t be running around the city with a Vision in the near future like Casey. The long term plan is to shrink it down to just regular glasses (or even implants) but you need to have an actual product first which people can use at home or at work now and in which they can see even more potential. The ecosystem and OS is already good. It’s easy to see how this can work.
I wanted the Google Glass! It never actually became available though. Google hadn’t built their creepy, evil, all-seeing spy reputation yet when the Glass was announced.
Arguably I’d say this is creepier. Because it does absolutely everything Google glass did but more. And the only way right now that you know someone is looking directly at you is when those creepy eyes show up. So someone can be recording you and then you get to look at them looking at you with just these uncanny creepy eyes.
I mean you’re optimistic about Apple shrinking it down all the way to an implant but you’re ignoring that Google could have built it up made it bigger.
I truly don’t see this working long term. I only see the utmost Apple enthusiast getting it and then everyone waiting around for it to do something. I just don’t see people poking around on an OS that’s invisible to everyone else looking like they’re drugged up out of their gourds hallucinating who knows what.
Casey reviewed Google Glass too. He generally liked it but it wasn’t the same kind of experience he showed here.
Unlike some Apple enthusiasts, I really liked the Glass concept. The technology was there, but the experience was not.
In addition to being an Apple enthusiast I am also a tech nerd. To us, the tech seems like the hard part; the experience can be figured out later. What I’ve learned is that getting the experience right is actually much harder than getting the tech right.
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, you own it. If it doesn’t, you don’t own it. And you’re an asshole.” - Steve Jobs
Seeing the device used in a non-controlled environment really makes you reimagine how we’ll be use computers in the future.
By far my favourite interaction cuts were when he replied to a message on the subway stairs and the butterfly donut. Both hilarious and frustrating to imagine that this is how the general public will behave using these devices outside.
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Those parts were definitely played for laughs in this instance. I mean, it’s not like there was anyone else using those stairs while he was typing.
And really, how is it any different to someone stopping on the stairs to reply to a text on their phone?
You can’t see a difference between typing on a phone versus a hunt-and-peck floating nothing? Are you wearing them right now? Is Tim Apple holding you hostage?
I thought the comedic timing of the gags were funny and the people on the subway appeared to be somewhat interested or unbothered by the spectacle.
Don’t let the monocle pop out of your eye, grandpa.
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Dude.
You’re in the APPLE ENTHUSIAST lemmy community.
Take this shit elsewhere and let people enjoy the things they’re excited about.
Well make the community private and keep it walled off like the products you guys love so much!
Man, apple haters easily make up a far more toxic, elitist, gate-keepy cult than any apple enthusiast group I’ve ever encountered. Go pester some other group that likes stuff you don’t.
As cool AF as this is for being “the future”, the video just had me worried about the future of idiots standing around town in people’s way (like Casey standing in the middle of the stairs while texting).
I mean, yeah, it would be super cool to walk into a grocery store with these on and get recipes and caloric info and suggested alternatives or on-the-spot deals from brands, etc. The potential for this as a user is incredible. But at the same time you’ve got everyone else in the store trying to walk around you flailing your arms around like while you watch a TikTok video about making chili. Which is not something I would have thought would be a concern twenty years go but we know now that most people are inconsiderate.
The one positive shown here in the video is that you can’t really doing anything while you’re moving (yet). So the fear of people actually walking and texting / computing or DRIVING with these on is quelled.
I’ve seen this this morning as it was reported to be a skit.
i wonder what kind of grocery store, or mall even, you could create immersive/spatially to browse and discover and get without actually visiting. would you want it to ve social? what kind of layout would be improved without the limits of real estate?
It would be cool if you could control them with your eyes instead tbf
Feeling like the future…
A very dystopian one at that.
For starters this is possible on other devices. The specs of those devices may be slightly lower but the “spacial computing” is possible. Secondly what meaningful work could anyone get done pecking away at their VR KB?
