[boo-ga-ga]

Snap's device doesn't need a separate compute device, and I'm sure it's pretty trivial to make it smaller with such. So I would not judge based on this. And anyway, I'm very glad to see Meta pushing towards AR, this is the good example of a company with bold vision.

[tourmalinetaco]

The thickness is only part of the design, and the only justifiable part of it. The actual design is far more reminiscent of a cheap children’s toy than a high-end “revolutionary” piece of tech.

[jaggederest]

I think that chunkiness is kind of an aesthetic that's in right now actually, if you look at a lot of popular media there's definitely some "birth control glasses" that are considered on trend.

That being said I'm about the furthest thing from a fashion critic - only Kirkland Signature touches this body.

[bartvk]

But _why_ are you glad to see Meta pushing towards AR? Genuine question.

[stronglikedan]

They innovate. Look what Quest did for VR.

[vid]

They innovate to infiltrate. 20ish years ago Steve Mann was beat up for invading people's comfort zone with AR glasses, then Google's AR users were "glassholes," now Meta is trying to make it cool. As much as I think AI is valuable, I hope they fail. The act of holding up a smartphone is much more explicit to signal to others they're about to lose all privacy to a centralized company. I don't think Quest is that innovative either, it's mostly first person shooters.

Where does Meta actually talk about things that could really be called "cool" at a society level? Or is it all just empty hype along the lines of Facebook being exploitation of social networking.

[FredPret]

To lose your privacy, you first have to have not already lost it. You're likely on camera right now!

If you have a smartwatch, there's a company out there that knows every breath you take, and every move you make.

Might as well get AR in the mix now that we're here. There are lots of pure sci-fi applications that come with smart glasses.

- AR directions

- all sorts of tutorials for things where you work with your hands. Imagine how easy IKEA furniture can be!

- never forget another name

- metadata about spare parts, products, and recipe ingredients as you look at them

- incredible military applications - team awareness, situational map, aiming reticule

[vid]

The problem is you're violating other people's privacy, then uploading it.

[vunderba]

It depends on your definition of privacy. There's a lot of people who would argue that you don't have a right to privacy in a public setting. And there's a lot of nuance here depending on the state (assuming US).

I'm not a fan of the data being in the hands of a large corporation, but I AM a fan of more video recordings that are not government owned (cough London, Beijing, etc) that helps shine one more light of accountability on the "powers that be".

[saagarjha]

I'm in my house. Hopefully nobody is recording me there. My smartwatch tracks those things but in theory it should not be sharing that with the manufacturer.

[FactKnower69]

Quest single handedly killed VR

They flooded the headset market by selling subsidized hardware at a massive loss for years which aggressively redirected funding away from abitious, interesting projects utilizing desktop levels of compute (next-gen 3D modeling and sculpting, architecture, fluid simulation) to Beat Saber level mobile game shovelware that has to be able to run on a cell phone

[rjh29]

The vast majority of Quest users would never have invested in a high spec PC and Valve Index (which was like $1000 at the time), set it up with sensors and fiddled about with software to get it work. Mobile-quality gaming (Beat Saber) and professional applications are completely different markets and for the most part Quest just commoditized VR for people without the money or the means.

And you can literally use it with a PC via wifi or a cable.

[nilamo]

Because they have money, and don't often abandon projects.

[brrrrrm]

Any citations for that? Id have thought the goofy width of spectacles was related to the screen projection