Why wouldn't I use my existing watch/phone/earbuds/pods instead of paying 600$+subscription for this?
I don't understand the insistence on using voice as the main interaction and ditching the screen.
At least google glass/AR let's me read
There was a google i/o talk a few years back were they talked about users wanting multi-modal, an example being they ask for restaurant recommendations by voice, then get the list they can view on their device. Both query and results are presented in their easiest modal, and humans will naturally switch between them.
This thing seem dead on arrival. Who wants to hold their hand up like that? Who wants to look at an uneven "screen"? Can you use it while walking or experience the movement in a vehicle? (car, bus, subway)
Is this just a big sunk cost fallacy launch?
It's a combadge.
I repeat: it's a combadge. It solves the self-evident problem of there not being combadges available and in use.
Or, at least, it's almost a combadge. A good qualitative jump forward, but with plenty of unwanted features like subscription (I guess this could work for a Ferengi combadge), screen, wake words, etc. A combadge doesn't need to be an image projector, nor does it need rich tactile controls. But I guess you can improve the product-problem fit by ignoring those features.
People are thinking about the form factor after the cell phone. Apple is busy training everyone to use hand gestures with the new Apple Watch and upcoming Apple Vision. Humane is going down the path of projecting on the hand and touch.
Apple's implementations are for 1 hand operation. You can operate the watch's touch screen while holding a steering wheel for example.
What's the difference between the objectively not great screen that is my hand, and the oled watch that doesn't require both my hands for operation?
EDIT Heck this requires one hand just to see anything. I can look at my watch without any hands!
That presumes there is one. There's not yet a "form factor after the car" for example. Just refinement of the same basic 4-wheeled template, with a few oddball vehicles for niche uses.
A possible indicator here is the apparent lack of demand for small screen phones. To me it suggests that screen real estate is more valuable than portability for most people.
It can’t compete in the consumer space, because it doesn’t let you waste time on social media. It can’t compete in the corporate world because it doesn’t have a screen — no email, no spreadsheets, no collaborative chat application we’ve all grown used to. And it can’t even be great for photography, since you need another device to view the photos and videos this thing takes.
If this thing takes off for its impressive AI capabilities, smartphone makers can pump R&D into their AI, and give us this for free as a software update. But right now, the only people who will use this are folks whose job involves scheduling meetings and firing off quick text messages to colleagues and clients.
Incidentally, it was written by Jess Armstrong who later created "Succession".
https://web.archive.org/web/20140208000114/https://kaptureau...
EDIT: had to share promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arQoSSXKaSQ
Most of the other stuff is just idling. I don't expect I would idle in the same way with an actually good assistant that respects me.
But then I'd prefer an open source Wikipedia/Wikimedia like organisation behind it.
Siri itself is lacking but I expect that to change with an LLM soon.
You can already lock down your phone to prevent distracting apps.
I've skeptical that people would actually choose to go without a phone in favor of this
This requires an always-on device, or always-in-the-cloud server processing your data and pushing updates to your device.
The former is limited by physics (battery), the latter is limited by how much data you want accessed from the cloud. Neither are solved by open source.
Simple example: which way do I go at the next intersection?
Or if I'm driving, GPS is displayed on a giant screen.
Not saying this is for everyone, but there will be users.
For example, the GPS is almost never accurate in Hong Kong, when I visited.
I'm skeptical of the usefulness of the hand projection vs a watch. And I think anyone who wants to bring a camera would be far better served by an iphone (or any phone).