Oh, if you mean AR including a brain monitor than yes, that's a whole different beast. But aren't we still far away from that? Most people understand AR as a wearable headset screen like google glass or hololens.

But I get what you mean, the learning curve is much higher than in smartphone technology in certain aspects. But smartphones themselves were inherently difficult to build too. Not so much the hardware but more the software. They required a whole new operating system build from scratch. If it weren't for google or apple having the manpower, we could still be using clamshell phones even today.

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> I don't work with hardware AR or VR but I am sure the problems are not that complex that you make it out to be. I think the limited processing power is what is limiting it. Display technology has matured enough due to smartphones that they should not be the problem.

AR can't use any existing displays in a consumer viable form, and the optics stack has to be invented mostly from scratch. Optics in particular are very difficult because light is so finnicky and difficult to deal with. Then you have to attain a wide field of view, without distortion, somehow produce pure black with 100% transparency, work dynamically at many focal lengths, with HDR in several tens of thousands of nits (even the world's best HDR TV doesn't go beyond 2000), on a all-day or decently long battery life in a pair of glasses without dissipating too much heat, while stabilizing overlayed content with high precision including high precision environment mapping.

And we haven't even gotten into the main input method for AR, which is likely a brain-computer interface (EMG), software complexity and UX design being much harder due to 3D being a much wider canvas for interactions than a 2D screen.

People got used to the annual product cycle that they forgot that it takes decades for new hardware products to enter the market and technology to be cheap enough to gain enough traction among the masses. I don't work with hardware AR or VR but I am sure the problems are not that complex that you make it out to be. I think the limited processing power is what is limiting it. Display technology has matured enough due to smartphones that they should not be the problem. Making the cpu small and powerful enough should be no problem with 3nm technology that we are getting next year. So I expect large gains in 2024.

Real time object classification isn't a fever dream, neural networks that classify objects can be run on very modest hardware today. The tricky part is making the glasses stylish and not having cords connecting them to your phone.

I should have clarified consumer devices.

Though medical imagining, microprocessors, and datacenter networking are all a major part of AR glasses. For AR glasses to work well, they need cutting edge tech in each of those areas - Space travel, perhaps not.

I'm hoping that their MR headset will be good enough to spur competition in the space, like what happened with the iPhone. But I doubt it. We'll have to wait for the "if ever" AR glasses, I think.

Rosetta 2 is the key part of this. Only works under MacOS, alas.

I tried running x86 emulation under qemu and was sorely disappointed. qemu, unfortunately, isn’t well written for this use case (only keeps 16 MB of instructions translated in memory at a time, last I checked). Rosetta 2 just rewrites an entire app once.

But I was trying to emulate an entire VM, which isn’t something you can just point Rosetta at.

The very hardest?

Medical imaging? Microprocessors? Datacenter networking? Space travel?

Just out of curiosity, does he have a device that will actually output this sound? LG phones had Quad DAC but you still needed a good music app and output device

What do you mean? There’s a pikachu in my bathroom!!

I know it’s a fever dream but man the idea of having AR glasses and looking at an object like a bird and then it being able to identify it on the spot sounds both really cool and terrifying

lol same, it’s all external drives or cloud for me now

I think it was hololens

Here you go.

HoloLense has shown that 75 degrees fov is underwhelming to most

Yeah, I checked prices. It was more expensive than I imagined lol. But the entry level model is really nice! I only dread the low storage and ram.

Answer is nope. No different from any other M series SoC Mac. Everything is within the chip, there is not an SSD or Ram soldered in the traditional sense.

Yes it’s all soldered. No one likes it. The only benefit is faster speeds than removable chipsets.

The resale market for a 4 year old extremely expensive computer is very small, a low trade-in value is to be expected.

they did, but they rejected by giving them more money for research and development.

Right but that’s not the one costing 499

I went from an Intel 16” to an M1 13”. The battery life and lower heat output are amazing.

How can it be game changing if it can't game.

Nobody has proven anything about AR.