He,
@GundotraVic, funded Google Glass and Android while an exec at Google. See his reply below.
He is also the biggest gadget freak I know.
I was working at NEC answering phones (which was a shit job I took in 2002 because everyone in Silicon Valley was laid off and I needed to pay the bills) when he called.
Bought one of our tablet PCs and said "do not let Bill Gates get one first, I'm putting down my own credit card."
A few months later he called back and bought 400 for Microsoft's CEO summit.
A few months later he called and said "this call will change your life."
He then told me he would like me to work at Microsoft. He was right.
But back to the point he made.
I hit the same while wearing Google Glass every day for a year.
The display changed the social contract we have with each other.
One thing that Apple did well was put displays on the front of its display. That means I can use it as a camera during interviews. EVERYONE looks at me like if I don't have a dorky device on.
I can't use the new Meta device as a camera because of that.
Which is OK. I'm one of the very few who uses the Apple Vision Pro as a camera. Very niche.
To wrap it up, this is why this is not the "iPhone moment" for VR/AR/XR and why
@Snap deserves a much closer look, since it is a device that you could actually wear outside (no cord, like the Meta or Apple ones have too) and you can see someone's eyes who is wearing them.
The Snap ones are just slightly too big and chunky to get normies to wear them. But you should see what
@Aidan_Wolf is doing:
What has a chance to go mainstream? Audio-only glasses, like the new ones, Vunder, that just got announced by
@getVITURE, or Meta's Raybans without displays, or glasses with a very limited display, like the
@EvenRealities.
Also, the VR fans are disappointed in the small field of view. Which keeps it from having a really amazing immersive experience.
So hardcore VR fans will be muted in their adoption/evangelism of the new Meta device.
@ASychov, who runs a metaverse, did a long negative video this morning that I watched.
He and I agree that the killer holodeck/metaverse device isn't gonna come from Meta anytime soon for a variety of reasons.
And a big red flag?
People at Meta's Connect can't try its new device unless they were hand picked by Meta to do reviews. The reason? The software is poor and they don't want people to really get a deep comparison to others. We'll have to wait for next Spring to get that.
And I've played that game in the past. If you go hyper negative you never will be invited to press events in the future. So most everyone bends over backward to do a positive review who gets a chance.
Back to what is here today.
Claude Opus 5.5 sure is gaining fans amongst those I watch. And so is Meta's Muse. Just gotta be OK with giving Meta even more data than ever before.