Show thread☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻9h ago

@jplebreton don’t disagree on that, a “lost decade”, thats a great way of thinking about it. The way I’m looking at it, so many attempts to capitalise on GPU’s; Graphics, crypto and now AI. VR was always a lost cause because the best in the business, #SteveMann ¥ identified #AR as the cherry for vision and while I think it’s useful, it’s not that useful day to day.

The world is screaming energy availability and pollution reduction and the best and brightest have switched to #AIAgents that have indeterminant outcomes and cant do mathematics. Make something that people want and will pay for.

¥ <https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~mann/>

Prof. Steve Mann

Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2024

"[Steve Mann] has this great book called Cyborg, which is all about wearable computing. And it’s just an amazing read, I highly encourage anybody to read it if they’re at all interested in wearable computing."

#AmberCase, 2012

https://uxmastery.com/the-future-is-wearable-an-interview-with-amber-case/

Mann's book can be read online or borrowed from Archive's digital library;

https://archive.org/details/cyborgdigitaldes0000mann/

#SteveMann #cyborg #WearableComputing

The Future Is Wearable: An Interview With Amber Case - UX Mastery

Show threadMike McCaffreyFeb 8, 2024
I wish the tech industry didn't make me hate technology so much. In the 1990s I absolutely coveted the #WearableComputers that #SteveMann was creating, and now the #AppleVisionPro is so much better than anyone could have imagined and I absolutely hate everything that it stands for.
L.A.Oct 20, 2023

Somebody walking around in public with a meta 3 #VR #headset. #Lain keeps (more or less) predicting the future.

Sorry, but you will never be as cool as Steve Mann going full cyberpunk earlier than the rest #SerialExperimentsLain #SteveMann

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23924435/i-am-an-absolute-glasshole

“I am an absolute ‘Glasshole.’” - The Verge

In partial response to articles documenting people wearing their Meta Quest 3s in the real world (like ours), VR YouTuber Brad Lynch published a video about the experience of using the Quest 3 at Disney World. Just to be clear: I think that using the headset’s mixed reality features outside still feels like a strange thing to do. But Lynch has some thoughtful perspective on where the Quest 3 falls short as an out-in-the-world mixed reality device.

The Verge