It’s 2019. Where are our smart glasses?!

Whether you think smart glasses are cool or creepy, for most people, they're not a part of everyday life. But AR glasses and headsets — including long-running projects like Google Glass — have found a niche with manufacturing, military simulations, and even the theater.

[TheVerge]

What’s your favorite fictional depiction of smart glasses?

[MIlyas-hvic]

What's with verge and the closing and opening of the laptop

[ashham]

Holographic friend. That’s sad but I’m interested.

[RyanStewartUSA]

What I really want is something that can clip into an existing motorcycle helmet. My motorcycle has a telemetry port where I can put a data recorder in there. It should be easy to get a bluetooth dongle that sends that same information to a headset.


How awesome would it be to have a useful HUD in my helmet? Not the distracting stuff but speed, engine temp, etc? And maybe then also navigation from my phone as well.

[RalphTobias]

Is closing the laptop really necessary?

[ahmdmnsor]

it's 2019, where are our flying cars?

[moroteseoinage]

This is like hearing about the first motion pictures on the radio. We’re watching this on our phones, unaware of the coming fundamental paradigm shifts coming in the next 20 years.

[cdeepmusic]

Why they always close the laptop after the intro when they are not even using it ?

[crimsonbeherit]

"If you know where to look" - so true, this applies to everything.

[WoWplayer]

Consumer AR is gonna be a thing that the average consumer becomes aware of in 2-3 years. it will start off being very expensive and a bit rough around the edges, but it will progressively come down in price while also becoming more advanced. My guess is that by 2025 AR is gonna be the new normal for many higher income tech consumers; and by 2035 it will be the norm for most people. Basically, you'll be able to expect most young people to adopt it by the late 20's, but many older people will be suspicious of it for a long time. I could see a 2045 where people who don't live their lives with AR are seen as rebellious or weird. like how in 2020 if you don't have a smartphone people will look at you like you have two heads. Interactive AR will change the way people interact with each other and those who don’t partake will likely find themselves excluded from some social circles as a result. A schism might form between AR users and the rest of society. Once they become a minority, non-augmented people might choose to form separate communities. Sounds like Deus Ex lol

[jfitzpatrick]

A great, comprehensive review of a broad spectrum of devices. Very informative about both past and current device innovations.

[XenOngn]

One day, it’ll be a contact lens style instead of using glass frames compounded with nano tech. One day guys one day.

[figgynewton]

Eventually I want AR to come to the point where I can have Billie Eilish singing a lullaby in my room to help my insomnia.

[TheAnthonyLJ]

Talks about the Army using the headset, shows a video of a Sailor using the headset.
Talks about Marines using the headset for training, shows the Army using the headset.

[rahulrajesh]

love the black background during the monologue

[michwashington]

The price and design is the problem. Once those things are fixed. Everybody will have these! It’s The Future ‼️

[OpreanMircea]

well this video didn't clear up anything

[flyingme]

there's no reason to put a macbook on that table...

[MariusHofert]

I'd use AR classes as monitor replacement when traveling... just connect your phone (as CPU) und you could work from anywhere (note that this needs to be AR, not VR, as one would want to be able to look at physical documents or the keyboard, for example)

[nightthemoon]

I feel like they should talk about the most important technological limitations mainly being the small fov, the processing power required for it, perfect seamless tracking and most importantly price. it's not mainstream enough to get enough money to overcome all of these limitations and not mainstream enough for there to be enough developers to make very good robust software. it's kinda like the vr situation but much worse cuz the hardware is sub-par but for extremely high prices that barely anyone can afford, unlike even the early vr headsets that cost 400-1000$