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  • Apple's AR glasses arriving in 2020, iPhone will do most of the work

    tjwolftjwolf
    Kuo's prediction comes 2 years after I predicted exactly the same thing:
    I think folks who think Apple need 8k per eye, 120fps must be thinking immersive VR-style experiences, not AR.  For Apple to be successful with a *first* attempt at AR, they simply need to have stylish glasses that display the same information that their ARKit-enabled applications do and some things the phone currently displays (e.g. notifications, emails, texts.)  It doesn't need to be fancy.  But the glasses need to be stylish - and they need to last all day - just like their phone and their AirPods and their watch.
    fastasleep

  • Apple's AR glasses arriving in 2020, iPhone will do most of the work

    tjwolftjwolf
    crowley said:
    That seems like a hell of a lot of data that you're shunting over a wireless connection, and in a situation where any lag will destroy the experience.  Colour me sceptical, firstly of the report and then of the system.
    You must be thinking of VR, not AR.  Why do you think it's a "hell of a lot of data"?  The only thing that needs to be transmitted is the augmentation.  In other words, the display is already in front of you - it's reality.  The glasses just have to show whatever augmentation the iPhone decides on based on what the glass' camera sees.  What the camera sees can be transmitted to the iPhone easily - Apple has been using AirPlay to transmit video for years.
    StrangeDaysfastasleep

  • Apple's 'There's More to iPhone' campaign highlights environmental and data protection fea...

    tjwolftjwolf
    tyler82 said:
    Doesn’t the Group FaceTime bug absolve apple of their claims to be “secure?” 
    Use of the word "absolve" doesn't make sense in this context.  Besides - and I didn't think anybody needed to have this explained to them: all software has bugs.  What separates good software companies from bad ones is the speed with which they fix things and make those fixes available to their software customers.  In case of iOS/Apple versus Android/Google, it's not even close.  When Apple fixes a bug in iOS, everyone with a phone < 5 years old immediately has that fix available to them.  On the Android side, most devices aren't even supported for more than a couple years, much less get urgent updates right away.
    gutengelAppleExposedStrangeDaysfastasleepwatto_cobra

  • Apple shipped 9.2M Apple Watch units in Q4 2018 to capture half of market, report says

    tjwolftjwolf
    I don’t know why anybody should bother reading these articles - how do we know “Strategy Analytics” didn’t completely make these numbers up?  Nowhere even an explanation about how they arrived at these estimates!  Apple has never published any numbers on the watch - since 2015, not a single #.  Yet Strateg Analytics knows how many watches Apple sold last quarter.  Me thinks not!
    chasmwatto_cobra

  • The Galaxy Fold is Samsung's $1980 7.3-inch folding smartphone

    tjwolftjwolf
    That looks like one fat phone! Can't see a market for a $2k phone that's twice as fat & heavy all of the time, for the relatively few times you need such a big screen (certainly you don't want to unfold it all the time - takes too much time, relative to simply looking at a screen).
    watto_cobra