Google's Dysfunctional AR Division Plans Apple Vision Pro Clone With Samsung - Slashdot
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A new report from Business Insider (paywalled) describes how Google's employees were "frustrated" at Google's lack of progress when the Vision Pro was unveiled and provides a glimpse of what Google's current plans for an AR product are. Ars Technica reports: The BI report details how Google's lates...
  • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Stop it. It’s not an “apple Vision pro clone”. Its an AR/MR headset

    Those have existed for fuckin years.

    Classic apple bullshit to claim old tech

      • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Invented mp3 players, touchscreens, smart phones, tablets, smart assistants, wireless earbuds, wireless charging, smart watches, AR goggles

        oh wait.

    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The way I see it, there a pattern:

      • Some companies rush some new tech to market and it’s clunky / not user-friendly / a flop.

      • Apple releases their own version of same tech, but it has a refined user-friendly interface that’s popular and successful.

      • The other companies work to revise their products to match Apple’s successful version.

      • Haters all scramble to say “Apple didn’t do it first, blah blah blah…”

      • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Apple releases their own version of same tech, but it has a refined user-friendly interface that’s popular and successful.

        marketing

        i’m not an apple hater either, this is just such an obvious one. It’s AR glasses within their walled garden.
        If you’re not in the apple ecosystem it’s even worse.

      • reddig33@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I just think it’s stupid for anyone to jump into this product space at this time unless they have something novel to add. I doubt this will be the case with an announcement that makes it already feel like a “me too” product.

        We don’t even know if Apple is going to have success with their product, and already here come the competitors with “announcements”. Google already failed with Glass. Microsoft has also had no success with AR/VR outside of small military experiments.

        But by all means, let’s get excited by a Google (who cancel everything) and Samsung (who copy everything) press release.

        • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Microsoft has also had no success with AR/VR outside of small military experiments

          I don’t have the numbers but i’m pretty sure the WMR platform is fairly common in consumer VR headsets?
          You’re probably thinking of the hololens which is much more focused on professional applications.

          Not sure how you spun this to me getting excited for google but ok, guess brand loyalists like to see the world in black and white.