129 sats \ 2 replies \ @xz 9 Jan \ on: Apple Vision tech
I'm not so sure that the timing is purely a response to social change and managing a fall in expectations of living standards. This was always going to happen since Neuromancer. The question of timing, to my mind, would seem to have just as much to do with the need to facilitate revenue growth as sales of existing product lines are starting to lose market share.
For me the timing is neither coincidentally nor on purpose.
For me the timing is just "too late".
We (humanity) spend the last decade in improving creating content and media and especially personal photography of life moments. But we spend little on experiencing all this. Sure screens are better and brighter. But reliving my memories from my phone camera on the biggest and most screen possible is just overdue.
It's just a screen in the end. A very sophisticated TV screen. But just a screen. 📺📺
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For me the timing is neither coincidentally nor on purpose.
Yes.
Opportunistic would entail some foresight into predicting how nascent technologies are developed to solve problems as the motivating force. Instead, it's just doubling-down on a path that's already revealed nasty side-effects.
The photo-sharing, and more recently GoPro generation is like the observation paradox. Outwardly, technology is impressive, and selective uses are a perfect fit. Thinking, Flight Simulator on early 48-128k home computers.
I remember trying a VR/AR headset with a tilting travelator at the beginning of the millennium, despite the graphics being less slick than a PS2, I was genuinely impressed. It's no different to the first time swiping an early iphone, until everyone has something similar in their hand.
What jars with me is the marketing and hype surrounding tech. It's not that it's not impressive. Depending on your age, the possibility to see the world move from open green spaces and non-ultra-heat-treated milk, to microprocessors and microplastics served as a supplementary nutritional benefit..
Okay. I will stop my rant.
But you are right, mimicking the optical technology of an insect is sophisticated technology. Indeed. (Where's my golf clap emoji.)
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