Apple Glass...It's almost here

Well, I knew this day was coming but I didn't think it would be so soon.

Details for Apple's augmented reality glasses were leaked.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/19/apple-glasses-price-prescription-lenses-rumors/

Apple is pushing for a late 2021 or 2022 release. I'm sure more details will be revealed at the next big Keynote. What does everyone think?

6 comments

6 Comments

Dan Guy

Jul 01, 2020

The latest leaks and renders are looking pretty slick.

Better hurry up, LaForge...

cjquito

Jun 07, 2020

While I understand Apple's appeal, I have become biased against their products because I have been burned too many times during the decade due to their mix of proprietary products/attachments and force obsolescence of their older products/attachments.

I tried using their ecosystem from the 2000's and it was great at the start...but it's when things started getting new 1-2 years later: OS/firmware/hardware/software, all of a sudden the ecosystem becomes an issue.

For example.... Besides the USB, Anyone remember when Firewire 400 was the fastest speed for data transfers....and then a few years (2 years for the time I had my set up) later, they forced people to switch to Firewire 800 by removing the FIrewire 400 inputs....ANNNNNND THEN a few years after, they, once again, removed Firewire 800 for...idk...because at that point I stopped buying anything new from then and continued using the current items I had until their natural destruction.

If it works for anyone out there, that's fine, but I will almost never buy another Apple product willingly.

Adam DB

Jun 07, 2020

Replying to

I thought Apple was way ahead with the Mac in the late 80's, but in the 90's their game selection was atrocious, and in the early 2000's, running AutoCAD on a Mac was an absolute horror. My first Apple product was an iPod, but although the hardware was excellent, iTunes (which was slow as molasses!) TWICE renamed my entire music library with no undo function. Took me months of mind-numbing work to get the naming straight both times, and the iPod went in the trash can along with any desire to ever again own an Apple product...

cjquito

Jun 07, 2020

Replying to

@Adam DB

Oh man....that reminds me..the ONLY apple product that I still use monthly (and the last one I ever bought) when I'm nostalgic of a certain time period of music or pictures from that time, is my Ipod Touch, or as I and others called it, the iTouch...I never really understood why apple fans got so angry at people calling it the iTouch.

i forget which gen, but it was the one that came out in 2010 or 2011 when they installed a camera on them, and I'm unable to transfer my music or pictures in it as I am unable to 1) update the software and 2) I refuse to update my itunes, because I heard after some point it became atrocious to use.

Speaking of software update that angered me to no end....there was a 2011 iTouch software update that stopped my hardware attachment from projecting my iTouch screen to a TV or monitor. And I know it was the software update because before it, I was using it every day, and after the update...it kept rejecting the output method. *shakes fist angrily at the sky while yelling "this is why we can't have nice things!!!!!"

But once this iTouch dies, or the proprietary plug breaks...all that music from the 1990's - 2010's and the 2000 pictures contained within it will be gone forever.

Adam DB

May 31, 2020

Personally, I'm indifferent, since Apple products aren't relevant to me, but on a broader scale I'd be disappointed if Apple beat LaForge to the market; if that happens, Corey might as well pack it up. Half his potential customers will be gone, and other companies with Android in their sights will not be far behind.

All in all, I'd say LaForge needs to ship this year, if there's still any credibility in their product...

Jan K.

May 19, 2020

Well, laforge also pushed for a late 2018, 2019, 2020 ;-)