The idea that an $800 peripheral will go mainstream just doesn't make sense. Maybe when cellphones are fully integrated into them and people can get them from their cellphone providers, like our $1000 iPhones, then I can see it happening.
So this report is telling us, fashionably in the near future we will all be like Star Trek TNG's Geordi La Forge and possibly without some imagined or marketed deluxe edition bumping into phone poles. (are phone poles still a thing? Rhetorical.)
I don't see how a thing attached to my face 24/7 is more convenient than the thing in my pocket that I can yank out and use for all the same things with similar ease. That said, I can easily see millions of people buying these and then putting them in a closet, right next to their Alexas, Apple HomePods, fitbits, drones, and VR/AR headsets. The business of selling things that can fill closets has been, and probably always will be, a great business to be in.
Let’s reconnect in a couple of years so I can say “I told you so.” ; ) And in ten years people will be shocked when they find out that old people used to carry a phone in their pockets. : )
I'll be interested to see if you're right. I don't think so. I think most people abhor the idea of someone with glasses that is potentially videotaping everything as they walk around town. I do, though, agree that some people might like the idea of using the glasses in situations where GoPros used to be used.
I don’t think I’ll be wearing them but I’ve been wrong before, as I get older, it might be very nice to walk down the road and run into some classmate or old acquaintance, to have the glasses tell me there name for that I might be glad to pay for.
The idea that an $800 peripheral will go mainstream just doesn't make sense. Maybe when cellphones are fully integrated into them and people can get them from their cellphone providers, like our $1000 iPhones, then I can see it happening.
Not at $800 a pair we all won't.
So this report is telling us, fashionably in the near future we will all be like Star Trek TNG's Geordi La Forge and possibly without some imagined or marketed deluxe edition bumping into phone poles. (are phone poles still a thing? Rhetorical.)
Sorry, can't help myself...
Its a bit ambitious right?
I don't see how a thing attached to my face 24/7 is more convenient than the thing in my pocket that I can yank out and use for all the same things with similar ease. That said, I can easily see millions of people buying these and then putting them in a closet, right next to their Alexas, Apple HomePods, fitbits, drones, and VR/AR headsets. The business of selling things that can fill closets has been, and probably always will be, a great business to be in.
Let’s reconnect in a couple of years so I can say “I told you so.” ; ) And in ten years people will be shocked when they find out that old people used to carry a phone in their pockets. : )
I'll be interested to see if you're right. I don't think so. I think most people abhor the idea of someone with glasses that is potentially videotaping everything as they walk around town. I do, though, agree that some people might like the idea of using the glasses in situations where GoPros used to be used.
I don’t think I’ll be wearing them but I’ve been wrong before, as I get older, it might be very nice to walk down the road and run into some classmate or old acquaintance, to have the glasses tell me there name for that I might be glad to pay for.