Microsoft failed? So the $10 BILLION contract the Pentagon gave them to provide AI enhanced AR headsets to the military is a FAIL? What would you consider a success?
Yes, HoloLens failed. The military hates them, funding was cut, Microsoft laid off staff. There are no customers. It’s possible Apple will do better, or it might be these things won’t take off until they’re much closer to a normal pair of glasses.
Perhaps the solution is to $hitcan the entire AR/VR initiative. Aren't we detached enough from each other's real lives? Do we really want to isolate ourselves from the real world in order to experience a virtual world created by a for-profit company? Seems like the answer is yes, given the popularity of social media and streaming services. But is taking it to the next level by shutting out all sensory input from our environment beneficial or detrimental to humanity at large?
AR doesn't shut out all sensory input from our environment. The clue is in the name; it augments it.
"Augmented" or "Virtual" are no suitable adjectives for reality. It's an absolute, like pregnant. It is or it isn't.
Pregnant is an adjective. And you can certainly have a heavy pregnancy or a difficult pregnancy. I daresay you could have an augmented pregnancy, though I'm not sure exactly what that would entail.
What a silly line of argument. People can affect their perception of reality in many ways. Wear sunglasses and you've changed your reality.
Altering your perception of reality is not altering reality. You are not God.
Every experience you have of reality is a perception. Everyone understands this, everyone understands the concept of a headset that augments the reality you see and hear with an overlay. Except you, apparently.
What a dumb argument. Two in a row.
"Every experience you have of reality is a perception." Can't argue that. But it's pretty obvious none of us perceives more than the tiniest sliver of reality. And you can't alter that. You can't "augment" reality. All you can accomplish with these headsets is to distort reality. I can do that for way less than $3,000 at the local dispensary!
Distorting something is altering it. And distorting something to a positive outcome is augmenting it. Enough of your silly grasping at straws, you haven't got a clue what you're even arguing. None of this is relevant or interesting.
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