• arctic pie (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Hell no. Oculus seemed like a really cool product when I was 17 and in love with “Ready Player One”, but now that we’ve seen the way that Big Tech just treats its users as profit-cattle fed on a diet of ads and angry people, I have no fucking desire to strap one of those things to my head (outside of actually gaming…then it’s kinda cool).

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think it needs to be a set of glasses and we need better battery tech before that can really happen. Solid state batteries will be needed since their energy density is so much higher. As a low vision user i can think of an immediate use as a magnification device. Actual magnifiers dont work well for me but software magnification does. Therefore i could magnify my surroundings to read signs, etc.

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      1 year ago

      I totally agree with this. I think Google was ahead of its time with Google Glass and I think something like that could catch on in a future where the hardware and software are more robust. Driving/walking directions, real time translation…some great potential for useful applications!

      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Google glass was my thought too. It was just way ahead of its time, but google absolutely had the right idea