• YeahToast@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    I personally hate the fact that capatilists have fucked our trust so much we can’t have augmented reality glasses. I was really looking forward to that.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      These camera lenses are nowhere near AR.

      MS HoloLens was the closest we got and it was targeted at businesses. Flopped badly. Died.

      • Pycorax@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        It wouldn’t have flopped if they didn’t just gave up on it. They were so far ahead of everyone else but just like they did with WP, they refused to continue building up its potential.

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        8 hours ago

        If someone other than Microsoft managed it, it might have gone farther, honestly. Nobody kills a good idea as efficiently as Microsoft.

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          7 hours ago

          MS usually does it before anyone else, releases a product, fails to market it, product dies to exec cutback, then three years later Apple does it and it’s amazing.

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      22 hours ago

      If they were only just that, AR.

      Instead they’re “record everyone around you without their consent and post the footage online without their consent to be commented on and shared by others” glasses.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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      21 hours ago

      We need an Open Source version of these glasses. It’s the only solution that will work.