Tech Thread

[MindzEye]

that dumb looking shit needs to get a lot better before I even try it...right now it'll be tethered to a battery with limited juice

I watched Marques Brownlee's review of it and I'm actually fairly bullish on it in the medium to long term. This is basically a public beta version and he said the eye tracking was borderling magical in how good it is. It's too big, too heavy, only has 2 hours of battery life and I'm not sold that any camera driven optical wearable will ever become socially acceptable outside the house. But as an entertainment and productivity device, this might turn out to be revolutionary.

and I say that with my well known and severe distaste for Apple out in front of it all.

 

[zeke]

Shit gonna chamge the world.

But yeah its gotta look normal first.

 

[CH1]

I watched Marques Brownlee's review of it and I'm actually fairly bullish on it in the medium to long term. This is basically a public beta version and he said the eye tracking was borderling magical in how good it is. It's too big, too heavy, only has 2 hours of battery life and I'm not sold that any camera driven optical wearable will ever become socially acceptable outside the house. But as an entertainment and productivity device, this might turn out to be revolutionary.

and I say that with my well known and severe distaste for Apple out in front of it all.

I'll miss watching a movie with someone else

curious about the productivity angle

not surprised about the AR aspect; VR is too isolating IMO

 

[CH1]

I watched Marques Brownlee's review of it and I'm actually fairly bullish on it in the medium to long term. This is basically a public beta version and he said the eye tracking was borderling magical in how good it is. It's too big, too heavy, only has 2 hours of battery life and I'm not sold that any camera driven optical wearable will ever become socially acceptable outside the house. But as an entertainment and productivity device, this might turn out to be revolutionary.

and I say that with my well known and severe distaste for Apple out in front of it all.

This is where Tim Cook varies greatly from Jobs and Ive. Those two were design geeks and didn't ship beta versions. Took their very sweet time coming up with a phone...and then crushed it. Nobody cares who was first..except engineers.

 

[MindzEye]

I'll miss watching a movie with someone else

Yeah, but what percentage do you watch with someone else? I'm married and I bet I'm at a 50% split on movies with the wife vs movies alone. We just like different stuff.

curious about the productivity angle

They've done this pre release before the commercial release next year to let app makers get ahead of this. But apparently the eye tracking is so intuitive that you can rip through menus incredibly quickly. Based on Marques description of it, I wouldn't be shocked if this turned out to be epic for visual creative work if it could be paired with an editing tablet, speed editing panel, etc. Imagine being able to look at a menu item and use micro hand gestures to open an manipulate menu items instead of mouse movements.

not surprised about the AR aspect; VR is too isolating IMO

Yeah, it only made sense to anti social pyschos like Zuckerberg who genuinely feel uncomfortable in the presence of other meat bags.

 

[MindzEye]

This is where Tim Cook varies greatly from Jobs and Ive. Those two were design geeks and didn't ship beta versions. Took their very sweet time coming up with a phone...and then crushed it. Nobody cares who was first..except engineers.

It's about the app developers though. It's not available for purchase until next year, this is just to get the app devs on board and creating for it.

 

[CH1]

It's about the app developers though. It's not available for purchase until next year, this is just to get the app devs on board and creating for it.

I get that part...still could have waited IMO...but they haven't had a big launch since the watch

 

[axlsalinger]

just gotta make it compatible with neuralink, let elon put a chip in your brain, and it's a lock!

 

[MindzEye]

just gotta make it compatible with neuralink, let elon put a chip in your brain, and it's a lock!

9 out of 10 surviving Chimp's agree

 

[Deckie007]

Yeah, it only made sense to anti social pyschos like Zuckerberg who genuinely feel uncomfortable in the presence of other meat bags.

I feel attacked

 

[Deckie007]

Honestly though, the AR looks pretty awesome. Would definitely look into in a few years once they've refined it.

 

[mbow30]

They've done this pre release before the commercial release next year to let app makers get ahead of this. But apparently the eye tracking is so intuitive that you can rip through menus incredibly quickly. Based on Marques description of it, I wouldn't be shocked if this wouldn't turn out to be epic for visual creative work if it could be paired with an editing tablet, speed editing panel, etc. Imagine being able to look at a menu item and use micro hand gestures to open an manipulate menu items instead of mouse movements.

Also imagine how awesome it will make jacking off.

 

[UWHabs]

Honestly though, the AR looks pretty awesome. Would definitely look into in a few years once they've refined it.

I was sad that Google glasses never ended up working out. Have always had hope for the technology.

These things though, I'm not sure. I know one of the problems with Google glasses were always that people hated that you could like hide them with sunglasses and secretly film stuff. Nobody's hiding these ski goggles. But on the flipside, you're not really going to walk anywhere with these on, so what's the point?

I don't know what price point makes sense for it. Right now just seems like a really expensive vr porn device. But if they actually get it working well with gaming, maybe that's the next generation of gaming tool.

 

[MindzEye]

Shit gonna chamge the world.

You said the same thing about ear pods

 

[worm]

Pokémon Go!

 

[zeke]

Pokémon Go!

I mean yeah...that's what this shit is.

 

[MindzEye]

I mean yeah...that's what this shit is.

But I couldn't edit videos and photos on pokemon go

Blackmagic is already expected to build in integration with their Davinci Resolve platform. I'd be fucking shocked if Adobe didn't do the same for Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.

Adobe creative cloud has 26 mill subs. This could add crazy functionality and work flow improvements to a bunch of creative cloud apps.

 

[zeke]

But I couldn't edit videos and photos on pokemon go

Blackmagic is already expected to build in integration with their Davinci Resolve platform. I'd be fucking shocked if Adobe didn't do the same for Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, etc.

Adobe creative cloud has 26 mill subs. This could add crazy functionality and work flow improvements to a bunch of creative cloud apps.

 

[MindzEye]

You think everything they do is going to change the world though

 

[zeke]

never had an apple product in my life.