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I was happy to share my thoughts about Apple’s face jail and hope it helps people reject it, much as I helped kill Google Glass dead in 2013 when my column went viral.
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Glassholes: Wovon die Mixed-Reality-Angst in Wirklichkeit ablenkt
Zehn Jahre nach der Google Glass wärmt das Netz die Angst vor Glassholes wieder auf. Dabei ist die Technik gar nicht das Problem, findet Malte Kirchner.
Over eleven years ago, we got our first look at Google Glass. Since then, tech journalism has run rampant with rumors and leaks of a similar sleek headset coming from Apple.
A tech journalism hype machine, running almost completely independently from Apple's actual product announcements, ruthlessly telling consumers not to try actual products that made it to market.
Over a decade of overestimating Apple's capabilities, with literally nothing to show for it. Where do we go from here? Can we ever bring practical consumer AR to the masses?
Now with Vision Pro on the horizon, we see a chilling effect on Mixed Reality solutions, and the Hype Machine is spinning up again to promote the idea of sleek glasses from Apple.
#ChatGPT and other cloud-based #AI services are doing a great job running into the same #privacy backlash that #GoogleGlass did a decade ago. To a certain type of person, anyone using them is now automatically suspect.
A fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.
Someone asked me how #AppleVisionPro is not like #GoogleGlass in that it would make you a social pariah for wearing it. My gut reaction (having used Glass but not Vision Pro) is that using VP is like using a big screen computer or media center, while using Glass was like using an Apple Watch for notifications. VP’s UX expects you to remain more or less stationary while using it, while you’re expected to move around while wearing Glass.
IOW, I feel like Vision Pro encourages you to disengage with your social context to deeply engage with the computer’s content (like when you’re working on your laptop in a cafe), only occasionally coming back to interact with others around you; while Glass encourages you to continue to engage with your social context but continually distracts you from it.
I don’t think Vision Pro will lead to the #glasshole problem, unless people start wearing it during social-interaction-heavy occasions. Now, about that guy wearing it during a kid’s birthday party…