Augmented Reality (AR) related topics only (for now)
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AR glasses really don’t make sense until there’s a way to develop some kind of non surgical neural interface. Like if I can control them with my thoughts? Awesome. If I have to walk around the city talking to myself like a crazy person? It’s the introduction of the Bluetooth earpiece all over again
But then it’s like I absolutely do not want to give apple, google, meta, etc access to my brain
I don't think that's quite true. Of course it would make things easier, but there are loads of applications where a smartphone "controller" would work.
Like setting a route on Google maps and having navigation steps shown on your glasses. Doing hands free video calls. Live translation of a conversation. Or simply notification popups.
As long as it's an ongoing process, you simply take out your phone, start the app/program, and voilà! It would just be more of a display until we develop a neural interface.
As someone who wears glasses every day anyhow, I’m not opposed to them having extra features.
From other companies I've seeen touch bars on the temples and a Bluetooth ring that can be scrolled / tapped
I'm working on a way to control them without a brain interface and also without the clunky methods being used today (gestures, peripherals, tapping the side of the glasses, etc.) Wish me well!
I wish you super well. I would love it if you could share more as I’m extremely interested in cog sci and ux research stuff but if you can’t or are uncomfortable sharing I totally understand
A shot in the dark guess based on an idea I had a while back thinking about this: eye tracking?? I did a study on autism where we used glasses that could do eye tracking a few years ago. I didn’t realize you could do it so unobtrusively and with the tech a bit more matured I could see it being a viable option, if you could software magic around just general eye movements and blinking and shit
Again though totally get it if you do not want to discuss!!