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John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in
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Apple reported to have killed the project to create Mac-connected AR glasses
Think about this for a moment. Vision Pro obstructs your vision with an opaque internal display that contains a mix of the world around you (obtained by cameras) and virtual content obtained from elsewhere. As such it can create the illusion of solid, opaque objects in your field of view. Glasses can NOT work like that. Glasses are necessarily transparent so you can see and could only project translucent content into your field of view. The brighter the environment, the more difficult that is to do. There would be no need for this if you're sitting in front of your Mac's display, which is already nicely opaque. Very few people have need for a ghostly translucent virtual desktop monitor through which they can see their actual monitor and/or cluttered desk.brianus said:
Are you kidding me? As the article rightly notes, Mac Virtual Display is considered by many to be the most compelling feature of the Vision Pro. This would be like that, but with normal glasses that are comfortable and not too weird looking (well, one hopes). The very large number of VIsion Pro customers who use it primarily for Virtual Display would ditch their clunky, heavy goggles in a second if something like this was available. I don't own a VP, but glasses with that feature would be a day one purchase for me.twolf2919 said:If this really existed - not an assured thing in this rumor driven world - then it's the dumbest idea ever. Thanks god it was canceled! I could understand AR glasses tethered than iPhone - at least you could still experience AR's promise of augmenting the world with useful information as you moved through it. But what's the use of augmenting anything while you're sitting somewhere with your MacBook??? Add a virtual calculator or calendar to your office walls? Who'd walk around with a laptop in hand? Makes no sense at all.
To be clear, it's not so you can have a floating calculator. It's so you can extend your Mac's display without needing an external monitor - extremely useful while traveling or in confined spaces, when the tiny laptop display just isn't enough for your workflow. I currently use the XReal Air USB-C glasses for this purpose, and they're... ok. But it's a 1080p display with no spatial awareness (it moves as your head moves). Apple could make something much, much slicker.
Anyway, very disappointed to hear they cancelled it. I tend to agree it would require iPhone tethering for mass appeal, so I get that if they couldn't make that work, it wasn't worth it to make something just for Mac users. Still, huge bummer.
To me, canceling this project seems the right thing to do.
