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> The Meta VR glasses will have better resolution I think, but then the Aura has access to the whole Android ecosystem - so that means real implementations of Microsoft Word etc.

Those aren't mutually exclusive though. Horizon OS is based on AOSP, and the more applications cross over into big screens on Android, the more Horizon gains the ability to leverage them too. Whether they actually show up in Facebook's store is a separate question, but I also have no idea how common the use of SideQuest is, just that the store is somewhat of an artificial limitation. (Google Play, on the other hand...)

> But the real choice is the unfortunate one of who is least likely to abandon the whole thing when it doesn't take off and leave you with an un/poorly supported device. Both companies have terrible track records on this.

Agreed. I would never buy a device like this from Facebook, and while glasses as a display are super useful, I don't necessarily see the need for a dedicated compute device for them when this experience could just as easily be powered by a phone. (I could maybe see replacing a phone with this, but more for particular minimalist crowds and not as a mass-market sell.)

The Oculus devices have and continue to have terrific support from Facebook

Meta will never be able to compete ecosystem wise with Apple or Google/Android

my entire interest in the meta vr glasses is on-device eye tracking; I think that interface concept has been under-explored.

Those are 3DOF head tracking, right? This is inside-out tracked, 6DOF and hand tracking.

In my case I would need the puck if I'm out and about because my phone does not support DP Alt Mode.

Reviews indicate the Steam Frame runs desktop Linux apps fairly well, too.

Gargoyle is traditional.

>Continuous AI dependence of a large fraction of society is coming fast. It needs a name. Cyborgism? Umbilicals?

"Quick, everyone! There has been an event in the time line that causes derision between the masses, let's assign derogatory phrases to blindly label individuals on each side -- we'll call them slurs -- according to the corresponding biases before any kind of human oneness or organization can take place, otherwise we risk human relations improving!"

or, another route : every single step need not be 'us or them'.

... on another hand, 'gargoyle' is kind of cool.

These combined with constant access to LLMs are basically the power glasses or specs from the book Accelerando by Charles Stross that the main character becomes so dependent on he becomes severely disoriented when they are stolen.

We'll also need to coin some names for the symbiotes to call the resistors. Neoamish? Analogues?

How about "human beings?"

Uh, I think some good old fashioned ones could do the trick: “sheeple”, “dumbass”, etc.

Clanker sores.

Blinking at a screen 1cm from one's eyeballs feels pretty damn dystopian.

i think this is just a dream as we approach singularity we will wake up.

or at least i might wake up since im the one typing this.

and im arriving at alpha centauri.

all the progress and human evolution, timelines etc with exponential acceleration in the last act.

all to do with the effects of space time travel. the brain needs to remain active even in stasis.

thats the wake up signal.

And cardboard. And daydream.

Given the track record…. Maybe a year?

I have the XREAL One Pro. It is polarized which makes it always dimmer, especially indoors, and they sort of PWM from the polarized state to a 99% black out with a button interface. When it's really bright outside and you have the display on, you can see barely where your next step is and not much else.

Their AURAs are probably the same in this specific capability, it looks like the same thing I have in my hands, apart from the extra cameras and a different set of buttons.

The projection lenses look the same too, which means there's no periphery at all. That makes the sort of "screens hovering around you" in the advertising not all that representative of the experience. You see what's in front of you and might barely contain the one screen that you're looking at.

If you just want a "dumb" pair of wired display glasses, they have a $300 version (xbx a01+) that has no brick, no Android and no AI, it operates as a plain DP Alt Mode USB-C connection. They're like a modern version of the old Sony HMZ-T3, but with the size/weight/style of normal sunglasses.

I like mine, they are more usable as a work monitor than I thought they would be (I'm used to blurry VR sets but these are sharp except for the extreme edges). The FOV is not quite as wide as the new XR ones but I'm ok with that... I don't use them for any immersive effect.