Neither Vision Pro nor Humane's Ai Pin are 'the future’, but they’re both showcasing aspects that will /become/ the future. A pair of glasses, running an OS like visionOS, with advanced multimodal AI smarts. That's the next product that can truly change the world, something anybody and everybody can wear all day every day, and give the smartphone a run for its money; what we have now are science projects — really cool science projects — but science projects nonetheless
@stroughtonsmith I don't buy it. I don't see the future being people wearing glasses (even if they don't need a prescription) and having tech invade their lives and privacy even more
I'm sure there will be some people who jump on that bandwagon, but I doubt it's the future
@stroughtonsmith I’m still not convinced the “handheld touchscreen” form factor will ever really become redundant.
I’d wager a huge portion of time spent on our phones is just “distraction time” rather than “productivity time” - e.g. reading, playing games, scrolling social feeds, messaging friends. I just don’t think you will ever beat “handheld touchscreen” as a form factor for many of the things people like to use them for.
@stroughtonsmith@blaise Rabbit looked like better designed software to me, though I like the pin form. Humane's AI Pin obviously needs tactile buttons! It's a pin; you need to feel for the button and get tactile feedback from pressing it. Fck apple for making capacitive touch so popular. Calling all #industrialDesign ers: please design a tactile button to dethrone capacitive buttons in hardware?
@stroughtonsmith I also posit that the current mechanics and slowness of prompt based development to leverage LLMs reinforces the sense of science projects.
@stroughtonsmith Remember when companies had research divisions? Maybe not everything half (or less) baked needs to be thrust into the public for general consumption.
Turning the masses into alpha testers (and having them pay for the privilege) stinks.
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