Comment by hnburnsy
5 months ago
From Robert Scoble...
>The end of an AI hardware experiment. Lots of reasons this didn’t do well, from trying to get people to do something they don’t already do (wear a computer on their clothes) to poor execution. The research @IrenaCronin and I do shows glasses are the form factor but they are still years from having decent all color displays. Until then it will be hard to get people to use much other than their phones.
Whenever I see Robert Scoble's name this is all I can think of: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...
I tend to think more of https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/doree/woman-accuses-rob... but yours is also on my mind whenever the name pops up.
Something something lesser monster in the backrooms vibe is what I feel now when I see that picture.
Is Scoble still relevant?
Lol "glasses are the form factor".
Ignoring the massive industry of people actively having their eyeballs cut open and lasered just to avoid wearing glasses.
Sunglasses, protective eyewear, and glasses for blocking blue light are things.
> Lots of reasons this didn’t do well, from trying to get people to do something they don’t already do (wear a computer on their clothes) to poor execution.
Huh, has Scoble... matured and grown? Got to admit I haven't been paying attention to him for a long time, but the above is discordant, coming from Google Glass Superfan Number One.
On his Twitter account he seems to have rebranded, from Metaverse/Spatial computing enthusiast to a general AI person.
Frustrating, because his "Next year Apple will..." predictions in his AR/VR phase were wild and utterly out there. I remember he predicted Apple Glasses the size of small sunglasses were coming next year. There was also a prediction of a completely transparent iPhone, just a pane of glass. I still wonder how that would have worked in his mind.
He spends his days on Musk's Nazi platform preaching the "VR any minute" gospel to the 50K people still using their Apple Vision Pros. It makes for the funniest circle jerk in tech circles. Robert is 1/6th the man he was as a paid Microsoft shill. He never recovered his credibility after his Google Glass shower scene made the social media rounds, and now has no one to sit at his feet listening to his deep tech wisdom except the VR die hards and the engagement farmers.
I have no idea what Apple was thinking with the Vision. It is priced for professionals but then all the promo material was regarding various ways to isolate yourself from your family.
I wish they'd slim it down and make it affordable for a normal human so they can iterate on it. But even then I would not buy it unless someone gets us to an unlocked bootloader and Linux.
that's a name I haven't heard in well over decade