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Yeah, it's the use case. Qualcomm had smartphones in the 80s, General Magic had the smartphone in the 90s, but it took more than another decade to actually combine phone and browser into the right form factor and fast enough mobile connection and a world wide web to make it work.

For AR there were moments too. Niantic with global positioning, 5G with fast mobile internet, but that was not enough.

Input method isn't clear yet (Apple may have solved it with gaze-pinch), form factor not consumer market ready. Actual use case that is worth the price point? Nah

Indeed, the fact that they filed a patent is also an indicator that this is not purely an experiment, but a tangible way forward. Let's hope this can scale up quickly.

Then there's litterally noone to rely on anymore. Any seemingly actual Left doesn't have power.

I don't know.. democrats always rolled over the past few years and used the increasing crisis as fundraising opportunity.

They only logged the IP. That's metadata. IIRC Apple refused backdooring its phone encryption. That's a lot more invasive.

Dude, the other day I was reading some rag because there was nothing else to do in the train... One article was just Trump's agenda without any commentary. How is that news if you don't put it in perspective and with the context that Trump barely reached any of his goals in the first term. Unbelievable.

You tested it for microplastics? They're everywhere. Even on top of mountains

Well, not boiling, but we do heat it up

Congressional approval is necessary for entering treaties, not for leaving them. Congress tries to change that. Hopefully in time

The largest differentiator to other devices by Apple really is the always-on cameras and the idea that you can/should use the device with always-on cameras in public. Otherwise Meta/Oculus have already done just as much as Apple has done here. Apple's entry into the market just heats up the discussion around the "Metaverse" again.

I work in the space myself and wearing a VIO system on your head can really give you a lot of health and personality information. The device sees your iris and can identify you. It can analyze your gait and with some "AI magic" even notice and detect movements of your extremities outside the visual field of its cameras.

Devices like these can also be helpful in the medical space though: Not just for diagnosing diseases in the brain or of the eyes, but also help with therapy of patients by augmenting reality with virtual content that can help. One classic one is Parkinson's patients who can walk again normally with some virtual visual guides on the floor.

Clearly that's not the main goal of Apple, and obviously not of Meta, but it's not all bad if used correctly. A privacy first approach is definitely necessary. And it's not completely true that M$ doesn't give a damn. With their Hololens they did for instance introduce a privacy preserving mapping and localization system. Nevertheless Apple has a good privacy track record compared to other tech companies.

With the amount of verbiage and ex-employees they've taken over from Magic Leap it's not far fetched they were looking into a see-through device as you describe.