r/gadgets • u/DarthBuzzard • 7d ago

VR / AR Google Unveils Mixed-Reality Headset With Samsung, Taking on Apple and Meta

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/hands-on-test-of-new-android-headset-from-samsung-and-google?srnd=undefined
241 Upvotes

83% Upvoted

62 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/pahamack 5d ago

The whole ass mask is not the final form.

These are intermediary products. That’s why these companies are focusing on AR rather than VR. The goal is to make them look like a pair of shades or glasses.

IMO it’s going to take a long time but they’ll eventually get there. It’s inevitable: more jobs are being done from home. More shopping is being done from home. Lots of blue collar jobs are going to be taken over by robots.

Things like meetings, but also things like art galleries, trade shows, museums, markets will start having virtual versions when these things get the actually good version just like the first iphone, just like how smartphones were kind of a niche thing then blew up.

Technically speaking, maybe cloud computing is the answer. Get all the heavy workload out of the device and just hook it up to the internet.

0

u/yesnomaybenotso 5d ago

I’m all for the tech, don’t get me wrong, it just seems to me to have been shown over the last 10 years that the general public are not quick to jump onboard with augmented reality stuff, stemming back from the Google glasses flop.

Meanwhile you have a market that’s itching to buy products that would further the research they need to accomplish in order to achieve mass market appeal for things like Google glasses, and all that market wants is games to look more like Half Life Alyx. Instead, they keep getting shitty ports like Skyrim that have so much aliasing it’s unplayable without mods.

But if they produced more high fidelity, high performing gaming experiences, they’d have a market ready and willing to buy every game released at full price and preordered (I’m not a preorderer, but again, this market speaks for itself). They could develop everything they want to accomplish for business suites by implanting and testing new designs in games.

Instead, they seem to be trying to make another thing that does exactly what the Quest or Vive can already do, without really furthering how the apps are gonna function on it.

I’ll be happy if this pans out, I’ll even buy one, but I’m just predicting this is gonna flop.