friend sent me a review of apple's ar headset. couldn't help myself

Dude's enjoying BDs on public
- BDs?
  
  Brain dances, like movies but your brain "lives" the experience, cyberpunk stuff, choom
  
  Brain Dances.
  
  Blueberry documentary.
  Pretty interesting stuff, actually.
- Also BL probably.
  
  Oooh, and BJs.

Saw that review.
Social politeness is already an issue. Imagine the chaos of lots of people using those and answering texts in places like doorways and stairs.
Just stopping wherever they are and chicken pecking at an imaginary keyboard(exactly as he does in the review)
- I wouldn't worry, most of em won't survive the traffic of cars and people.
- Going forward I'm just going to refuse to talk to anyone wearing headsets. You can stand there and say all you want, if you'd like to talk to me then take the headset off. I sound like a boomer that doesn't understand wireless earbuds that pause and pass through outside audio automatically. I still take them out out of respect, though, if it's anything more than a sentence.
- I wonder how it compares to staring down at one's phone though. At least in an AR scenario, you're looking straight ahead right? I can both see how that could improve your spatial and social awareness, but I can also see how you could tunnel vision on your content just as easily.
  
  When you look at your phone, I can tell you're looking at your phone. If you're wearing a headset I have no idea where you're actually looking. And you could be pointing your face straight at me but completely gone watching a video or something.
  Eyes are such a fundamental part of human body language. We need to be able to see each others to have effective communication.
- Is that hard to imagine? I see people nearly colliding into each other in the hallway on a daily basis looking at their phones.
- I think people would learn to move out of the way at that point or just use Siri to respond. That felt very much like a “first-time” faux pas when he stops on the stairs.
  
  The weird thing is that there are already efficient gesture keyboards. It's a weird choice by Apple to not use one.

- Didn't think WALL-E would start so soon

Steve Mann invented probably the first mediated reality device, the EyeTap, in 1984. Of course, it was a freaking CRT and mirror array strapped to your head, but one of the original proposed use cases was to remap advertising billboards into whatever you wanted. Fast forward 40 years and we're using the same concept to beam ads directly into your eyeballs.
- remap advertising billboards into whatever you wanted.
  puts on glasses
  OBEY.
  CONSUME.
- Covering IRL advertisements is the only thing that interests me with this sort of tech. I would love to cover billboards with random memes or even just erase them. THAT would be a reason worth looking goofy as hell for.

Like this, sort of
https://youtu.be/JJ4R0yJ9-vg
Gotta say, still seems awkward using it in public.
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- Gotta, say, the barrier between you and other people by having a headset obscure most of your face, sure feels strange, as far as human interactions go. They really haven't innovated at all in that regard, despite the promises of the virtual eyes at the front. I can't see the technology becoming ubiquitous in daily life, until it's nearly seamless.
  
  Same, same. Except I can't imagine that virtual eye thing ever being seamless.