I hope (but doubt) it'll come out of left field, either a startup or an existing company that has faded somewhat into obscurity. It'd be nice to get a fresh perspective on consumer tech, shake up the playing field, and have the giants scrambling to respond.
Becca, you’re easily the most natural presenter at The Verge, and this video in particular was fantastic. I love the timeline you presented, leading up to what I agree is the most important question in this area of ‘ambient’ computing; who do we trust?
@@Demba_Kane Exactly. At least he got surface to a great place. It is sad that apparently they won't be innovating as much anymore and I hope that they won't kill anymore products. Panos is a visionary so I am interested to see what he is going to do at Amazon.
Once it's powerful enough and portable enough. Much like initial telephones to the iPhone there'll be an efficiency and tech jump that'll let smartglasses be more viable.
I remember when I first got the Snapchat spectacles and they felt like a small look into the future. They didn’t really capitalize and expand on that initial idea but it was so fun capturing moments from a first person view and reliving them later on VR goggles. So glad we are finally getting better versions of those ideas nearly a decade later
Your final thought in this video about privacy is probably the most important realization I've seen about AR/VR/XR tech. Also connecting it to privacy by bridging the ideas of these technology with the concept of "ambient computing" is impeccable. Great job with this video.
I agree with everything, but the end. the idea of privacy is not so appealing to consumers. Just look at Google or meta succeeding even though they are the worst in privacy matters. And also we have not been talking about the prices the people are going to pay and I think it is going to be way more than what a smart phone did to people.
The ai is sorta good, honestly it is just impressive considering the chip inside that is way smaller than one in a ai server, and way smaller and weaker than one in an average phone.
Ok, I didn't know most of those products. I think I didn't exactly because of privacy. About the conclusion, I don't think the company we trust the most is the one who will win the competition. Who trusts Meta? And they are the number 1 in the VR space.
You should look up Metas VR prototypes, theres a bunch of public talks their VR research team. A few years ago they got a whole VR screen/lens stack into like 8mm. Its just a waiting game until they balance passthrough and offboard compute. They use holograms of lenses instead of actual physical lenses. Its bonkers.
I'm waiting for wearable monitor that isn't as thick as current gen available in the market. While ambient computing is cool and all, i don't think it will be consumer ready in next 3 years.
Awesome video (as always with Becca), but IMO horrible (tho fun) thumbnail. Had to guess (being a half a decade Verge sub) that this was Becca and came just for her (and the subject, obviously). Thought the thumbnail was a bit creepy face-wise. But again, loved the vid!
"the company that we will trust the most". More realistic for the majority: "the company that does it the cheapest while providing the best functionality". To me it seems that most people sadly prioritize price over privacy. I mean... otherwise there also wouldn't be so many people buying hardware by Meta... the company behind Facebook and a gigantic amount of privacy violations.
Great video but I can't help but disagree with the last statement. Meta won social media and we clearly don't "trust it the most". Unfortunately people have lost this battle long time ago. 🙄
*eventually (that’s mostly the thing people forget to finish this sentence with! Most of the people that said that mentioned it was the future not that it would be mass adopted in that current form” and they were right we are in the future and there is now mass adoption products in this space at multiple price points with various features and specialties.
Does anybody have a pair of Google glass that they don’t use that they could let me borrow and try out I’ve been wanting to try a pair so badly I can’t find them anymore because they’re not selling them anymore. I really want to try them out badly I’m willing to send them back, if you’re willing to send me a pair
This piece highlights that we're still basically waiting on the hardware technology to catch up to our imaginations for magic spectacles. Getting things to fit into ski goggles form factor is challenging enough, but there won't be a smartphone-like moment until it can all fit into sunglasses frames. What Meta and others are doing is still quite limited and probably more useful for accessibility in the near term than broad adoption. You can see the potential, though, much like how things were coalescing in the 2000s from standalone GPS units, cell phones, PDAs, and mp3 players into this one device we call a smartphone. Good video, Becc and team. 😎
Yeah, sorry, I ain't putting camera or microphone anywhere near me that feeds its data to Meta. Or Amazon. Or Google. I'm hesitant about Apple, but they seem the least "sell all your data to anyone who will pay for it" of the big tech firms.
Apple’s also the only one whose business model is not funded by data or sales of data or ad targeting. Yes they have a small ad sales platform for App Store search page but they argue it’s more to help small developers get discovered and they do not sell of store the data linked to you, they anonymize it and then they encrypt it and keep that to themselves. They don’t even offer very good info on ad reach and clicks and stuff back to devs that buy ads.
meta is leading this pack but because of clout & "security reasons" apple will always win because of the largest us following base it has even though they're are far behind
Both Google Glass and HoloLens were bad devices. Both felt very much unusable and needed several versions before coming close to a v1 fit for a member of the public to wear. Both felt very unfinished. it was very disappointing to try them. i can’t wait for a good company to nail this. when i say good; i mean not microsoft’s terrible design and not the nightmare factory from Meta.
Which company is going to make the smart glasses that we will actually want to wear?
Feels like Apple will be that company.
I hope (but doubt) it'll come out of left field, either a startup or an existing company that has faded somewhat into obscurity. It'd be nice to get a fresh perspective on consumer tech, shake up the playing field, and have the giants scrambling to respond.
Microsoft would be smart to leverage this with office use using their copilot
Any company that opensource its stack for all to audit and take a local first design principle.
@@sbrown7734 look into Microsoft's HoloLens 2 specifically: Copilot in Dynamics 365
3:18 Wow, the unveiling of the world's first iPotato.
That was deliberate by Meta.
Becca, you’re easily the most natural presenter at The Verge, and this video in particular was fantastic. I love the timeline you presented, leading up to what I agree is the most important question in this area of ‘ambient’ computing; who do we trust?
🥹 tyty, bud
Love the fact that The verge is digging down to root concepts in computer science to analyze today innovation, Great host Becca !
I think it'll be "the company we distrust the least"
Well put.
Becca's videos are always a joy to watch! I own a pair of Ray-Ban Metas and I'm very much looking forward to what the future holds.
Same
The iPotato cracked me up 🤣
I am a simple man, I see Becca, I click the video. Great work as always
When Panos Panay was at Surface he always talked about the products fading into the background
While doing a lot of magician-like hand waving
He was a great orator, carrying the surface brand to new heights, such a vision. I'm afraid the surface lineup wont survive such a loss of a character
@@Demba_Kane Exactly. At least he got surface to a great place. It is sad that apparently they won't be innovating as much anymore and I hope that they won't kill anymore products. Panos is a visionary so I am interested to see what he is going to do at Amazon.
Once it's powerful enough and portable enough. Much like initial telephones to the iPhone there'll be an efficiency and tech jump that'll let smartglasses be more viable.
They still won't be mainstream though.
I remember when I first got the Snapchat spectacles and they felt like a small look into the future. They didn’t really capitalize and expand on that initial idea but it was so fun capturing moments from a first person view and reliving them later on VR goggles. So glad we are finally getting better versions of those ideas nearly a decade later
Thank you! What an excellent video! You are so good at this!
Make more of these type videos please!
There’s only vergecast videos on my feed now 😢😢
great quality content, good job! salary raise!
Your final thought in this video about privacy is probably the most important realization I've seen about AR/VR/XR tech. Also connecting it to privacy by bridging the ideas of these technology with the concept of "ambient computing" is impeccable. Great job with this video.
Microsoft HoloLens was pretty early to the game, pre ai, not mentioned here
I agree with everything, but the end. the idea of privacy is not so appealing to consumers. Just look at Google or meta succeeding even though they are the worst in privacy matters.
And also we have not been talking about the prices the people are going to pay and I think it is going to be way more than what a smart phone did to people.
love your video, always spread optimism about future and tech. keep posting
What a fantastic video. I feel so much more knowledgeable about the smart glass space. Thank you so much for making this.
the potato reading was kinda on point tho. Best description of the One Plus I've ever seen
It's referring to Apple. Also, why the hate on One Plus? One Plus 12 and 12R are by no means potatoes.
Love this presenter!!❤
The ai is sorta good, honestly it is just impressive considering the chip inside that is way smaller than one in a ai server, and way smaller and weaker than one in an average phone.
I am proud to be Becca’s bud.
Thank you! You are just the best at what you do!🎉
It’s not Thursday but we get a throwback video with Verge alumni making appearances.
love your videos, you rock!
great video as always! keep it up :)
People dont trust in Mark but we still use instagram, the winner will be the company that will bring more, costing less
great vid, thanks Bud!
I see Becca, I click Like
Your verdict regarding trust is so true - and therefore it will definitely NOT be Meta.
Becca drops a video, I watch that video.
Becca for president (or at least of the Vergecast)
Becca's videos are just perfect! Becca 2024! Ok ok Nilay can be the VP.
good history lesson
Ok, I didn't know most of those products. I think I didn't exactly because of privacy.
About the conclusion, I don't think the company we trust the most is the one who will win the competition. Who trusts Meta? And they are the number 1 in the VR space.
Check nimo planet, their form factor and UI looks super good
thanks
The vuzix blades are the best looking, so far
You should look up Metas VR prototypes, theres a bunch of public talks their VR research team.
A few years ago they got a whole VR screen/lens stack into like 8mm. Its just a waiting game until they balance passthrough and offboard compute. They use holograms of lenses instead of actual physical lenses. Its bonkers.
Becca please you full review about galaxy s24 ultra
I'm waiting for wearable monitor that isn't as thick as current gen available in the market. While ambient computing is cool and all, i don't think it will be consumer ready in next 3 years.
Awesome video (as always with Becca), but IMO horrible (tho fun) thumbnail. Had to guess (being a half a decade Verge sub) that this was Becca and came just for her (and the subject, obviously). Thought the thumbnail was a bit creepy face-wise. But again, loved the vid!
Which is?
What about the RayNeo X2?
love the video!
The Wadsworth Constant still true to this day 😂
Those meta ray bans look the best imo but ironically they’re the company i trust the least to use this tech with.
Smart and insightful as always from Becca. Although I'm still not convinced I want a computer on my face, or someone else's computer watching me.
Smartglasses without screens are like an iPod compared to smartphones.
So, how did you just barely do this video 6 hours ago and get the beta version?
"the company that we will trust the most". More realistic for the majority: "the company that does it the cheapest while providing the best functionality". To me it seems that most people sadly prioritize price over privacy. I mean... otherwise there also wouldn't be so many people buying hardware by Meta... the company behind Facebook and a gigantic amount of privacy violations.
Great video but I can't help but disagree with the last statement. Meta won social media and we clearly don't "trust it the most". Unfortunately people have lost this battle long time ago. 🙄
Not the company we trust most, but are habituated to it.
RUclips algorithms got me another channel to sub too.
I need to get me that
Apple you're referencing right?
And every single one was thought to be the revolutionary step that everyone will adopt
*eventually (that’s mostly the thing people forget to finish this sentence with! Most of the people that said that mentioned it was the future not that it would be mass adopted in that current form” and they were right we are in the future and there is now mass adoption products in this space at multiple price points with various features and specialties.
The goal of camera on faces is training data for robotics.
This is the year of vision/action LLMs.
Phonetato! The best phone in The US. Sign me up!
0:34 1999?
Does anybody have a pair of Google glass that they don’t use that they could let me borrow and try out I’ve been wanting to try a pair so badly I can’t find them anymore because they’re not selling them anymore. I really want to try them out badly I’m willing to send them back, if you’re willing to send me a pair
Yea but that would be 2000£
@@nikhilpradeep8170 I don’t need it to have. I just need it to try out once in my life.
Yes there great
1990s is that long ago huh?
Becca. Do me a favor. Make sure your face is on every verge video thumbnail so I can make sure I click in it. Almost couldn’t tell with this thumbnail
I want that potato now.😂
I think we are at a time where tech makes things more possible, but we’re finding out we’re not like science fiction
The object recognition could be really useful for blind people.
3:24 But it's true tho. but I'll choose potatoes over iPhone
U tried xreal
What‘s the case with americans wearing hats in closed rooms?😂
This piece highlights that we're still basically waiting on the hardware technology to catch up to our imaginations for magic spectacles.
Getting things to fit into ski goggles form factor is challenging enough, but there won't be a smartphone-like moment until it can all fit into sunglasses frames. What Meta and others are doing is still quite limited and probably more useful for accessibility in the near term than broad adoption.
You can see the potential, though, much like how things were coalescing in the 2000s from standalone GPS units, cell phones, PDAs, and mp3 players into this one device we call a smartphone.
Good video, Becc and team. 😎
I think apples gonna be the one to make it a thing, if only cuz of iPhone market share.
Contact lenses please
Samsung Blink Contacts.
Yeah, sorry, I ain't putting camera or microphone anywhere near me that feeds its data to Meta. Or Amazon. Or Google. I'm hesitant about Apple, but they seem the least "sell all your data to anyone who will pay for it" of the big tech firms.
Apple’s also the only one whose business model is not funded by data or sales of data or ad targeting. Yes they have a small ad sales platform for App Store search page but they argue it’s more to help small developers get discovered and they do not sell of store the data linked to you, they anonymize it and then they encrypt it and keep that to themselves. They don’t even offer very good info on ad reach and clicks and stuff back to devs that buy ads.
I will take one Potato Phone Pro Max please!
NIFTY!
...AND you can't immediately make out a camera so you don't get assaulted at McDonalds...
Technology for children.
what are you talking about? Iron man did long time ago.
Casey Neistat's secret daughter?
😂😂you are funny
meta is leading this pack but because of clout & "security reasons" apple will always win because of the largest us following base it has even though they're are far behind
It’ll take off when Apple gets into this space
Not if they do something stupid, like the vision pro.
(Apple)
literally no one thinks that but ok
please don't film yourself this close to the camera it looks just off
It's Apple... it's 100% Apple
Trust Meta or Google?! Loooooooooooooooooooooooool
remember how bad facebook was? imagine that, on your face. yea, no. the only company that’s trustable on this list is Apple.
Such a bad take in the end. Privacy is a tech reviewer obsession that average consumers just don't care about.
Both Google Glass and HoloLens were bad devices. Both felt very much unusable and needed several versions before coming close to a v1 fit for a member of the public to wear. Both felt very unfinished. it was very disappointing to try them. i can’t wait for a good company to nail this. when i say good; i mean not microsoft’s terrible design and not the nightmare factory from Meta.
Not the future
Potato potato potato
Chips and paring
It could of been the rayban dry line
Like when you ask Siri to ring your girlfriend and she asks which one
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