You basically described the Hololens concept from years ago. What changed? This feels like old territory and the excitement doesn’t feel justified.
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Hololens price is $3,500 where as Quest 2 price is 300$. Quest 2 has the potential to become a mainstream device with that price.
I'm still not seeing the excitement as a consumer because the apps aren't there yet. From a development perspective it also just feels… iterative.
Why would the apps ever be there if the hardware isn't? Wouldn't that statement be like complaining "the apps aren't there yet" for the iPhone 1 or Android launch? We know how that movie plays out.
>From a development perspective it also just feels… iterative.
But "iterative" is generally by far the most important part of technical success where mainstream adoption is required to get the most out of it. Nobody builds Rome in a day, it takes years reaching a critical mass of iterative improvements.
Cheaper, better devices... about an order of magnitude here. A larger user base, by more than that. A better understanding of UX paradigms. ETC.
The majority of successful products of the last generation were conceptualized and attempted during the dotcom, circa 95-00. Smartphones, social media, online dating, ecommerce, travel, cloud computing.... The user base, infrastructure, technology, culture and such just weren't there yet.
If you wrote off everything that was attempted but failed to catch fire in the 90s, you would have written off almost every tech product created since.
The display technologies are fundamentally different. HL is additive so you can't show blacks. You have to make due with tricking the eye with grays. Its a lot harder to get realistic lighting on objects. The FOV on the Quest2 is much better.
The Quest2 is a couple SOC generations ahead of the HL2.
The Quest2 has a much bigger install base.
The Quest2 is 1/10th the price.
I want invisible technology, the one that does everything and I don’t have to interact with it.
lol isn't this just the most ironic claim? i'm not excited by augmented reality exactly because i'm not bored with life (i.e. unaugmented reality).
Therefore I'm seeing any progress on the part of multiple companies signaling that this is more than just a one-off.
Another example would be the very early handheld iPad predecessors (Palm Pilot). Look like nothing was going to happen there. But after several failures it started to take hold.
The Hololens is a waveguide display with a very small FOV. It's also 10x the price.