• ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
    444·
    10 months ago

    I feel like a tween with embarrassing parents when it comes to the human race. “I’m not with them!!!” Is what I’ll scream when the aliens come…

    • tjhart85@kbin.social
      18·
      10 months ago

      I think aliens would be horrified by so many things we do (or don’t do!) that wearing an entertainment device on your face wouldn’t even break the top 100.

      ETA: The guy in the cyber truck though. That might get shown as an example in some of the other items in their list.

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
      92·
      9 months ago

      Google glass was more camera than display These seem to be more about display than camera. Still an outrages intrusion of privacy

      • Furbag@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I should clarify that “they” in this context is the consumer, who rejected Google Glass for a multitude of reasons, but embrace this product which is essentially the same thing, except bulkier. I can’t really wrap my head around it.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          9 months ago

          This is vastly different than Google glass on many fronts.

          Just to name the more obvious ones:

          • Higher quality output
          • Full visual
          • Both eyes
          • Internal face scanning
          • Eye tracking
          • An actual app ecosystem

          The glass was a dev kit, at best, and funnily enough ran fairly close to the cost of the Vision Pro when you take inflation into consideration. And the reason it failed was more because Google lost interest and killed it, like they do with most of the things they put out.

          • Furbag@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 months ago

            I’d like to think that with a decade of time spanning between the Google Glass devkit and Apple Vision, had they chosen to continue development, that they could have improved on their initial design with technological advancements in hardware that would absolutely allow them to do a higher quality output in both eyes and incorporate eye tracking.

            The main reason why Google abandoned the project (in the public sector, anyway) was the metric fuckton of negative press it was getting, mostly due to neo-luddites obsessing over the fact that it had an outward facing camera as if they weren’t constantly under scrutiny and surveillance by cell phone cameras and CCTV anyway. The media coverage of the product was way outsized compared to the actual number of users. Another reason is people weren’t convinced that this early heads-up device was worth the cost since as you mentioned it was expensive even back then, and most of the comments I saw about it at the time believed that the bespoke glasses they came with were dorky looking, not to mention lenses were not available in prescription strength, so yet another limitation that could have been overcome with a bit of engineering effort.

            I don’t disagree that Vision Pro is better, but it looks like a huge step back in terms of style and practicality. Who wants to walk around town with a VR headset strapped to their head? It really does look like the NPCs in Cyberpunk 2077.

  • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    342·
    10 months ago

    The gym one is a pretty solid idea, I dig it. The others feel like they were done for the memes (the gym one probably was too, but definitely the guy crossing the street).

    • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
      211·
      10 months ago

      Except the sweat.

      I have had my share of “exercises” with VR headset on and the sweat is real.

    • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
      10·
      10 months ago

      Transit is also fine. They’re not getting in anyone’s way or risking anyone’s harm.

      Walking is actually one major use case for the future. Imagine walking somewhere and having turn by turn directions provided for you. The issue with this person is that they stopped in the middle of the road to adjust something on their screen. Also, I don’t think walking directions is even a feature yet.

      There’s obviously something already wrong with the Cyber Truck driver. I mean… they bought a Cyber Truck.

      • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
        74·
        10 months ago

        Imagine walking somewhere and having turn by turn directions provided for you

        Imagine having a phone

        • The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
          1·
          10 months ago

          I mean, you’re not wrong. When I’m navigating though, I hate having to hold my phone out, while constantly looking down. If I had a less intrusive, but also way less obvious set of glasses, to just point out directions as I look around and see the world around me, I would be happier. Especially when going somewhere new. That said, these goggles aren’t the answer yet.

      • obre@kbin.social
        121·
        10 months ago

        We see like 10 seconds of him, most of which is him using the machine…?

      • Throw a Foxtrot@lemmynsfw.com
        51·
        10 months ago

        He’s using it though.

        I can imagine having a tutorial on how to hold and move your hands floating in space right next to the grip could be pretty nice for beginners. Or just make the boring exercise more interesting by watching some form of entertainment.

      • girl@lemm.ee
        41·
        10 months ago

        You’re being downvoted because your comment is barely relevant, the only thing linking your comment and this video is the word gym

      • Dr. Coomer@lemmy.world
        15·
        10 months ago

        Does it matter? Tesla requires you to still keep your hands on the wheel and pay attention, and not everyone will know that they are using autopilot, and considering she’s driving a cybertruck which is bulletproof and durable as shit, imagine what would happen if the autopilot stopped working for some reason and she didn’t know.

  • pachrist@lemmy.world
    25·
    10 months ago

    So if a Cybertruck runs me down in a crosswalk, does my newly widowed wife sue Tesla or Apple?

      • cholesterol@lemmy.world
        16·
        10 months ago

        I’m not talking about your intentions. I’m doubting the authenticity of those clips. The clips look produced to induce rage in people, because rage drives up engagement, and engagement drives up exposure.

  • thorbot@lemmy.world
    62·
    9 months ago

    Hardly seems different than every fucking human in existence walking around with their eyes glued to their phones

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Those were my initial thoughts as well. The device may differ, but it’s basically the same thing.