Meta's big vision for face computers might be better than Apple's

But... I also know it's ridiculously (increasingly) common to see people walking around in public while looking at a phone with Airpods in their ears.

So no - wearing a Vision Pro isn't in the future for most people, but smart glasses might be but only for those sorts of people. Not you or me. But for the masses? Maybe.

This is a strawman. Let people do what they want to do. Since you don't like staring at screens, don't stare at screens.

People already spend most of their time in front of computer screens today so you can say the same thing about the effects of the smartphone revolution.

In my childhood, to use the computer and play games, I had to come how from school, and only then I could indulge in this hedonism, meaning I spent most of the day without a computer. But if you look at kids today, most are on their phones most of the time anyway even during school, there's no more separation between computer time and 'other' time.

People are always ON now, always connected for the entirety of their waking lives, for better or worse. There's this trend in mental health of limiting social media and technology use, which is good, but I doubt society as a whole would take measures to artificially limit this for everyone the same way we limit consumption tobacco, alcohol.

For instance, as someone whose living is made with computers, if the computer I carry no longer needs a screen of its own and can just use my (sun)glasses as a display that’d be a significant paradigm shift and improvement in practical portability, essentially putting my multi-monitor desk setup anywhere and untethering me from my desk, taking remote work to the next level. I could do my job just as effectively sitting in a local park or enjoying the sea breeze in the shade, which sounds amazing.

Matt Ferrell makes the point that the AVP is highly unlikely to increase your screen time. The only use for wearing the AVP outside or while interacting with others IRL is to make clickbait Youtube videos.

OTOH, he claims it is great at replacing your screen time. It's great for watching movies, playing some types of video games and doing some types of office work.

Personally, I'm hoping Brilliant comes from behind and laps everyone. The tech is not particularly ambitious (more HUD than AR), but the open source philosophy is by far the best way to go.

Meta has done a significant amount of work on a range of productivity and general computing use cases. They are clearly exploring VR/AR as a full platform, not just a game console. They have almost feature by feature parity with the Vision Pro, plus a game console on top of that.

A few examples: Their past 2 headsets have had high quality passthrough cameras for MR. Quest Pro was specifically focused on productivity in a very similar way to the Vision Pro.

2d apps are supported and quite a few are available including MS Office apps, social media and messaging apps.

I don’t know what you mean by calling desktop mirroring apps a toy since the MacBook screen mirroring is exactly one of the hallmark Vision Pro features and apps like Immersed, Virtual Desktop and Horizon workrooms do the same thing in MR or VR.

There’s keyboard and mouse support for 2d productivity and screen sharing just like Vision Pro.

They have a a corporate sales program that includes remote device management specifically for corporate and industrial use cases.

And there been quite a lot of research work on codec avatars in virtual meetings that are extremely similar to Vision Pro. This is one thing that Apple seems to be ahead of Meta on.

Not really? From what I've seen of Meta's keynote presentations, their big vision has been you block out reality to transport into some stupid Second Life world where everybody's a silly little avatar, and you play virtual sports and attend virtual concerts.

According to what? What limitation is there that stops Meta engineers from being able to do this?