What will happen when even the minimal friction of pulling a phone out drops away, and billions of people can immediately snap a picture of anything they see?
Surveillance state. The surveillance state will happen.
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What will happen when even the minimal friction of pulling a phone out drops away, and billions of people can immediately snap a picture of anything they see?
Surveillance state. The surveillance state will happen.
Fuck this.
Nope
I'll believe these will take off when I see it, as this has been tried before, and the questions of "use case" and "how does a user control it" still don't have good answers in my opinion.
I'd love just a basic HUD in my glasses for stuff like messages from important contacts, walking directions sometimes, maybe a todo list, a calendar view... but any use case I can imagine would be enough work to control when it displayed or not that it would be just as easy to just pull my phone from my pocket.
Plus, from using VR headsets, there's still a lot of room for better image quality when we're using screens. A projector or transparent screen is going to have similar or worse limitations with resolution and clarity.