in an assembly plant, i could see it being supported by an overhead arm that takes the weight, similar to how Disney quest had cables on their helmets to offset the weight.

you say it wouldn’t work, but as long as the contract gets approved, they’ll keep working on it. :)

Few years when you can see through buildings will be good

Tinfoil hats are back on the menu boys!

Other than Google, I've never heard of anyone in the AR industry try to classify Glass as AR.

The usecases, the tech, the hurdles that have to be crossed are just fundamentally different. It's a bit like a calculator versus a computer. They might technically both be calculators, but a computer is exponentially more complex with entirely different usecases (and at a greater magnitude).

I suspect the technology being “mature” will involve exoskeletons, tbf.

It doesn't read their thoughts per se. It detects signals from their motor cortex. When you speak that part of your brain tells your tongue, mouth, throat, ect to move in certain ways. Even though these signals don't make it to those body parts when a person has ALS, they are still there. The implant detects those signals and can tell what the person was trying to say.

I’m not sure what the upper limit for human thought is, but I’m sure 3.5g of magic mushrooms will take you towards it.

Do you think they cheated and literally typed the phrase “62 words per minute?”

Really? Last time i checked (quite some time ago) it was anything that augments reality . Even 2D HUD

They straight up made LandWarrior from World War Z, of course it’s ass.

I wonder how they measured this. Brown kids killed per deployment? Murder vs casualty rates? If it prevents them from being even more murderous in our name, I say make it mandatory.

Still mad? Had to grab the other puppet?

Hardware surely is the responsible for tech getting faster. But there are many kinds of software, what Meta did with the Quest is amazing when you think of the amount of sensors that thing has processing all the time. Wirth's Law is really felt on web stuff and other enduser applications

Won’t somebody think of the poor billionaire.

Carrying around extra kit that provides no value on the battlefield makes you less lethal.

There is stuff that could work, but it has to be small and simple. And the UI has to be tailored to the mission.

For instance, smart watches are good. They’re even pretty durable and reliable these days. The smartwatch team should do AR, and if they say the tech isn’t there, they’re probably right.

Speaking of smart watches, if I was gonna do military AR, that would be my first product. Sunglasses with the time on them. Even if it’s just an analog hour/minute hand, I think people would find a use.

5 class-A’s, mostly older models. I don’t think the military minds writing off a couple old F-35s, the first production runs were kinda shit.

Not sure if there are enough sheep, pigs and monkeys on this planet to make it work.

HoloLive > HoloLens

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

Google Glass is a 2D HUD. It's as if you were to take a smartwatch and put it on your face - that's the limit of the functionality you can provide.

AR deals with actually overlaying information into the real world.

>as if tech don't always get faster, lighter and cheaper over time

Well, hardware does. Software, on the other hand...

I think the upper limit will be beyond anything relating to language, like speaking or even thinking words. It'd be something like transcribing thoughts themselves from abstract forms into words.

That's what the thought leaders tell me.