The secret gadget from Jony Ive and Sam Altman is basically an Sphero-like AI-powered device with fisheye cameras, speakers, microphones, and LED lights (plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth). It looks like the Insta360 Air 3 had sex with the Sphere mini.
Swedish researchers have created a screen about the size of a human pupil made of "metapixels" and offering a density higher than 25,000 pixels per inch, with support for anaglyph 3D displays, thus with a potential use for next-generation XR devices.
www.chalmers.se/en/current/n...
Google Glass' fixed-focus monocular display caused headaches because users couldn't choose which (dominant) eye to use, nor the distance of the single display, which was available at a fixed distance to everyone. Why would the Ray-Ban Meta Display be any different?
Before Windows Vista's Aero, there was the Apple Aqua UI. Even so, Microsoft can't laugh at anyone considering the failure Vista represented. It even became a great joke in The Big Bang Theory, explaining why Bill Gates punched Sheldon Cooper in the face.
www.techradar.com/computing/wi...
End of an era. The HoloLens website is no longer online, and the URL instead forwards to the corresponding Microsoft Learn section:
www.hololens.com
The kind of innovations you'd expect from Apple...
visionOS 2.4 to bring Apple Intelligence to Vision Pro as early as April.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
did anyone else notice the reflection on the Apple logo is this:
Well, if you go to work for the Devil, don't complain you were stabbed with a trident.
fortune.com/2025/02/13/l...
but if you ask Microsoft, it is "partnership":😂
news.microsoft.com/2025/02/11/a...
Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries is taking control of the US Army’s $22B Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program away from Microsoft.
palmerluckey.com/turning-sold...
Apple has started mass production of the next-generation M5 system on a chip.
www.etnews.com/20250205000198
While some publications claim Apple has halted Vision Pro production, Meta has officially confirmed the Meta Quest Pro is no longer available. Facts versus fiction, I'm just saying.
www.meta.com/quest/quest-...
New Orleans attacker visited the city twice recently, wearing Meta smartglasses to record the scene in advance.
news.sky.com/story/amp/ne...
Sorry Scott Stein, but you got it backward. Headworn computers are the ultimate must-have feature of AI. That computing form factor will bring massive AI adoption and make consumers care. There's no software without hardware to run on and AI is no exception.
www.cnet.com/tech/computi...
Original cover from MAD #166, April 1974
MAD gives hashtag#AI the middle fingers!
Concept: @mattcohen2
Artist: Norman Mingo
