Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
HoloLens was indeed marketed to consumers first. It failed (primarily because of pricing), and Microsoft shopped it around to enterprise clients, with MS releasing an updated version in 2019. You’re right that it was recently discontinued though.
With Google Glasses the primary use was supposed to be wearable computing. Not sure if you recall 2014, but back then, wearable tech was super limited in performance, and so were the phones it connected to… no chance of real time translation or even just subtitles… Which is, again, one of the main features today’s wearables target, beyond recording. Not to mention that the camera quality on the GG was ass. Useful for some minimal computer vision tasks but that’s it.
The Vision Pro literally got an upgrade, but in the ~3 years of its existence, wearable tech is going a different way, and Apple is going towards that (actual glass AR instead of headset), using the original AVP as a basis.
You know what else people said is going to be a fad?
HoloLens was indeed marketed to consumers first. It failed (primarily because of pricing), and Microsoft shopped it around to enterprise clients, with MS releasing an updated version in 2019. You’re right that it was recently discontinued though.
With Google Glasses the primary use was supposed to be wearable computing. Not sure if you recall 2014, but back then, wearable tech was super limited in performance, and so were the phones it connected to… no chance of real time translation or even just subtitles… Which is, again, one of the main features today’s wearables target, beyond recording. Not to mention that the camera quality on the GG was ass. Useful for some minimal computer vision tasks but that’s it.
The Vision Pro literally got an upgrade, but in the ~3 years of its existence, wearable tech is going a different way, and Apple is going towards that (actual glass AR instead of headset), using the original AVP as a basis.
You know what else people said is going to be a fad?