Comment by _ea1k
3 years ago
I just think you are thinking of the monitors in an overly literal way.
Imagine a calendar on the wall, but with your meetings and everything dynamic instead of just a static calendar. And it adjusts to show your next meeting extra large as it approaches. No you see useful information in your periphery.
Or perhaps you have application monitoring dashboards on another wall. You don't look at them all the time, but a dedicated space wouldn't be a bad thing.
I see a lot of potential here in the future.
A digital calendar on the wall and a dedicated screen for monitoring are both possible with tech from 10 years ago.
The problem isn’t “we couldn’t do this before AR and now we can”, it’s “my computer already does calendars and monitoring well enough”.
My windows phone could already do everything an iPhone could do at launch, and in 3g no-less. But there is something to be said about putting it all together well and having it all just work seamlessly.
Until it is superseded. Ask Blackberry.
Maybe but every single photo is a person, alone, in a room.
While this is the case for a period of life, its certainly not the case for most of it or an end goal.
This is first-and-foremost a tool for doing work. They show people using it in their living rooms, but I get the impression that the key use-case is to use it in a home office (where you'd already be intentionally isolating yourself to get work done) — or in some other room (e.g. a bedroom) to turn it into a home-office-alike space.
Fair enough though when I am home, I have half an ear for what's going on in the house whether its stuff outside; someone at the door; the cat doing cat things; the kid running around etc.
It's rare even at work that I would want to be so fully immersed. Kind of makes me feel vulnerable, not you?
That niche is killed by their own watches.