The Vision for Mixed Reality: Now vs The Future!
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2023
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It honestly feels like a desktop/laptop paradigm to me. Something like a Quest is good for immersive experiences at home, whereas the Smart glasses once they have overlay displays in the lenses are what you'll take out into your day to help with your daily stuff and general communication.
That's actually similar to what Mark Zuckerberg said on other podcast. He thinks VR headset will replace workstation PC and TV, while smartglasses will replace smartphone and laptop
@@aleksei5195 If Zuckerberg actually thought that--he'd have A and B-roll ready of his software engineers on the floor at his workplace using his damn product in production. To proudly show his product vertical actually has a workstation use. He'd invite MKBHD to his workplace and show it off in use by his employees just doing their normal work--not in a quiet room with a canned demo. If he actually believed it could make WFH better--he wouldn't be ordering all his employees to RTO, and then complain his employees aren't using his VR platforms.
Instead it is all just handwaving gestures from a robot pretending to be a human, with a massive amount of hype, and a hefty dose of FOMO....in the desperate hope that no one calls him out on his empty PR.
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well most people just use laptops these days for everything because they are powerful enough for them
@@ZeroGravitas187 He obviously knows the technology isn't good enough currently, that is the plan for the future
Marques looks so cool wearing black sunglasses
You too bro
@@sergeythedaw Thanks.
Was thinking the same thing!
@@Kanoogno problem
He looks like the hung over teacher who, instead of teaching, puts on a movie for the class.
That transition from the shot of the VR bowling to "taking off" the headset was ridiculously smooth
I had to go back and watch it to know what you were talking about, that's how smooth it was.
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Yup, I noticed
@@mediamfilmwhere, can't find it 😭
06:40@@_yugi_
Eleven Table Tennis dev here. Thanks for the mention! I'm glad you had a chance to check out the game. Hit us up for a match some time :)
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How nice it is to be young enough to see all that tech coming. On the other hand... I'm nearly 66 and for the past 40 years I have seen enormous developments in tech and enjoyed every innovation by just reading about it or by trying it out. Now I'm pretty excited about the Quest3. I know I will enjoy it and won't be disappointed, because I remember how it used to be. I'll be using it at home.
The smart glasses... maybe that's for the younger generations. I just don't like to wear glasses. But then.... I never liked to wear watches until I start using smart watches and now I wear them nearly day and night to monitor my health and I enjoy them.
Unfortunately like I said in the beginning.... if I have to wait another 20 years for that great tech.... well I'm not sure if I'm still around or that I'm too old to be able to use it... meanwhile I enjoy what there is.
The technological advancements are not gonna be made only in phones and watches they're gonna be made in medicine and healthcare as well If not even before phones and watches so as the years pass you'll have an even bigger chance of living longer
@@15Stratos Depends on the agenda.
@@N1h1L3 lol I was feeling good when reading the other guy's comment then here you are pulling us back to reality
You are a brother from a another mother. Could not agree more.
If the legend is true then the technology will reach its peak by 2050 and its a down hill from there
you have lived in the good times
Love the smooth transition from VR to reality. Very smart idea.
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@@N8mehkeep your politics out of this.
@@N8meh ah yes. few people on a comment section of a video about smart goggles definetely have to power to free palestine
Yes, the move is from Virtual Reality to "Augmented" Reality
I think both sides have their uses. Headset is more for VR and gaming, where as glasses are more for casual every-day use. I'd love to see decent AR glasses where I can just check messages without having to check my watch or phone. I've always imagined a scene where I'd be driving a car, and then either my glasses or windshield have AR GPS arrows that show me where I need to drive on the road specifically, because it's very easy to miss your turn using a phone. I think it would also make things more visible, such as speed limits and special zones, like school zones, or even just seeing where the lines on the road should be. Maybe they could even connect with your car's detection system in order to give you minor pass-through capabilities to see in your blind-spots. Of course, there are so many more uses for AR in every day life. As for VR, as fun as it is, I can't be bothered to put a giant headset on my head every time I want to play. I can't wait for it to have a very small form and be light weight, non-intrusive. Though my ultimate goal for VR is diving into the virtual world mentally, so I can actually be immersed and move around freely.
True, my ideal VR world would be as in READY PLAYER ONE movie.
Perfectly said brother
What you describe actually already exists! Look up the Mercedes-S class 2021 with integrated AR head-up display for example.
@@XxMrTwisterx How have I not heard of this? Thanks for letting me know. After seeing a demo of it, I'm quite impressed. I hope something like this will come to every vehicle one way or another. Though I still wouldn't mind this technology being accessible through smart glasses or some other personal technology.
I just got a chance to try Microsoft Hololens last week. It was surprisingly good, the hand tracking and 3D tracking was really good, you can for example open the Start menu just by doing a gesture very similar to the one shown in the video (to open the menu on the Quest 3). The only downsides are that the FOV is terrible, and also that it has that RGB "artifacts" that you can see on some projectors (I think only if it's DLP). It really felt like "the future".
I'm definitely hoping the vision pro idea is slightly miniaturized and becomes aggressively cost effective, just because I think the digital passthrough looks great on the quest 3 and shows tonnes of potential for all-day wearing once people can display their own eyes
Prediction: 2025 - Apple Vision Air, 2k internal displays, black plastic, no external display, half the weight of the Vision Pro, $1999
So... the bigscreen beyond headset but with passthrough
Apple won’t have an
@@MOG-mg2ptagree…too much R&D and new machines designed specifically to manufacture parts of vision pro
@@MOG-mg2ptAlso, doesn’t high inflation mean that by 2030 keeping it at current price would already be a cut in value?
as a person with hearing loss, i really HOPE they implement a live caption feature so when someone talks to me I can read what they say in the glasses. Ive been wanting one for such a long time and I know it would be very helpful.
That would be such an amazing feature. Also a live translation from different languages too! It could be audio and visual.
I feel they will have a plethora of features for people like you. And I really hope I'm right. Would love to be able to communicate seamlessly.
There is several apps that you could already use on your phone that can connect to “smart glasses”. It would allow you to see captions in real time and they seem to be pretty accurate. I also do believe some of them also have translation for different languages
@@Sleepeaze really? which apps for which glasses? that would be helpful
@@brndnreys8822 off the top of my head xrai. I think Google might have a app as well
I think the early adoption will go to the smart glasses. These are impressive. Since we are addicted to our cameras and capturing everything, I think the glasses will take first. Plus these are well done by being built in a popular brand in fashion.
The VR headset is still too big to walk around in the real world with. Because of size and battery, VR headsets will remain isolated to home and office.
Not if they are very expensive.
Facebook somehow has stats on how people would buy their first generation smart glasses and then end up not using them. The attach rate is always very low
The bigscreen vr headset is extremely small, i think the 2cnd version of those will be small enough to walk around with.
I agree that the vr on your face will become the next big thing. I have the quest 3, using vr teams and desktop mode is crazy! Watching freeguy, regular glasses may be the thing and I think even people will walk around with bigger vr headsets in the world as well. It’s going to be interesting in the next decade or 2!
The transition from VR games to A-roll by removing the headset from the camera is beautiful. That transition made the previous part immersive in retrospect. Wow!
Minute mark?
6:40
@@sreeharikr9480 INSANELY good. It's not the first time he's pulled off impressive transitions.
The main problem with the rayban glasses is that they're focused on the Meta ecosystem meaning it's needlessly missing features because it won't talk to your android/iphone the same way a smart watch would. You mentioned not being able to set an alarm or reminder, for example. It's such a simple feature and it seems like shooting one-self in the foot, not having it "just because, meta".
Yeah, that's why Meta regret it that they had no own smartphone hardware and why they are now focusing so hard on XR hardware and do many stuff to dominate this market. They know this issue very well.
I am insanely interested in smart glasses that basically function like a smart watch currently. Amazon's Echo frames are the closest thing to that currently but honestly Google, Samsung, or Apple have the best shot right now for full phone integration.
Yea so basically Google needs to get back into the labs and bring back the Google Glass! Ofc it would be called the Pixel Glass today 😎
@@blizado3675in tech, owning the platform is the holy grail
Chill bro it’s the literal first version of it
8:50 Bro’s entire music library is one song.
So interesting! I can't wait to see the improvements over the coming years!
Marques in Ray Ban is kinda badass
FRFR
Its crazy to see how technology has advanced this fast. I even remember that time I bought the Cybermind Vissette. Time really flies.
Haha, time sure does fly! From cyberman vissettes to Meta Smart Glasses and Apple Vision Pro, technology keeps surprising us. Can't wait to see what the future holds! 😄
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@@N8mehno
Looking back a whole decade ago though actually gave me the opposite impression. The very first Oculus headset came out in 2013, and it more or less resembles the Quest 3, minus of course the cameras. That, combined with the industry's aversion to the medium even for blockbusters such as HL3/Alyx kind of solidified the unfortunate reality that it's going to be really hard, if not impossible, for the gaming side to make VR catch on. All eyes are on Apple & glasses for it to finally spark, and hopefully the wearables ten years from now won't be as recognizable as the ones from ten years ago.
What is a "cyberman vissette"? Like Doctor Who?
Awesome video, shared it a lot to my mates since they're not into VR as much as me, this is a good video explaining about VR and what's to come in the future
Gotta say, the smart glasses kinda look promising.
Bit of nostalgia here - my first MKBHD video was Google Glass Explained and man this guy has come so far. Gotten to a point where my fiancee buys me MKBHD merch for my birthday 😂 Something genuine and wholesome about Marques and the team he has built, that really makes him the goat in this space. Keep grinding big man 🤘🏼
Color Passthrough feels like a leap into the future, like something out of science fiction that's finally happening. I've been using it to watch streaming tv, and youtube , along with browsing the net. Its nice being able to walk around inside with it. I can image in 5 to 10 years it will be something we take with us, like our phones. Its probably going to replace our phones by then.
Honestly such a good video, no one can even come to close how inoformative and at the same time entertainning Marques's videos are
There's this artist called Josan Gonzalez who specializes in creating colorful, dense, cyberpunk inspired art. So many of his characters have some sort of mixed-reality glasses on their face, which I instantly remember when I think about these headsets. I guess that's just the future we're headed to.
A solution for the haptic problem for the keyboard for Meta for free: make the other arms underarm your keyboard like in those old scifi cyberpunk movies were keyboard decks were attached to the arm. Then, when you want to type text, you just pull up the other arm, the Ar projects a keyboard overlay over said arm and you begin to type by pressing virtual buttons on your arm.
yessss with like different keyboard themes
Love this
no two hand typing though, I wonder if it can snap to a surface, that would be usable
thats a great suggestion
Or... and just hear me out here. You replace your arms Deus Ex style and then your robo arms just vibrate!
For haptic feedback it should sync with a smart watch to do a slight vibration every time it receives the input.
probably a ring instead, the watch wouldn't feel like you're actually grabbing something
Or a ring/multiple rings!
just gloves at this point
@@Phoenix-jd4yf some kinda glove form factor for sure. I think the tech you see/read in Ready Play One is pretty on track.
@@WigganNuG like a whole suit that allows you to feel
6:35 that transition was super clean
This would be a badass dev/editing environment. So much real estate to work with.
At this stage, these two categories of devices have completely different use cases. The SmartGlasses are currently a substitute for GoPros and a supplement to your Smartphone. XR headsets are for mixed and virtual reality experiences, which includes use-cases for gaming, learning and doing certain types of work. I think they are likely to go mainstream at approximately the same time, and then eventually converge.
Kinda like a smartwatch today?
No, they are too different
@@frameshoot8567what
They both an accessory for the phone, right? With the main function to notify about something you can explore at your phone. Sure, the smartwatch can give some additional health info, but it’s mainly function is to inform, just as the smart glasses.
The raybans could be a great 3d camera with one camera on each side!!
For that matter on the VR ones have it where you can take to good images like you can on the smart glasses and then can display the image in 3D or share it to someone else to view it
Imagine if they made a new one compatible with the apple vision pro!
Anyone that has been thinking about a quest 3 or thought that it would be trash just like the first vr experience you've had (me) Definitely go and try it again. It is mind-blowing what vr is capable of now. I can't wait to see what the next 10 years will be like.
Apart from the photo and video capabilities of the Raybans, it seems like having computers in your ears-like AirPods always listening for Siri-already gives you most of these features and more, and this will only continue as Apple keeps trickling in more advanced LLM processing as well.
All that being said, until there is a visual component to these kinds of glasses, it feels like the features are largely redundant to wireless earbuds. I’ve liked concepts of wearables that can project a UI onto a surface like your hand, etc., so it does not initially have to be a screen, per se.
Something like the NReal glasses (now called XReal apparently?) are a much cooler concept in my opinion, though their feature set is clearly aimed at different use cases.
I’ve avoided VR until the Quest 3 and I think it’s pretty cool. Watching videos on a movie theater screen is nice.
Vrchat has 3d movies for VR, James Cameron's work was meant to be seen in vr I feel like
that's my number one use case. I watch amazon primes app, netflixs, bigscreen to get at disney+ but horribly the UA-cam app is broken in quest3 and limits you to 1080p which ruins 180 degree 4K videos and 360 videos look like potato vision. But movies look as good as my computer monitor but not as good as the living room OLED TV. Can't wait for the next one that does look that good.
i avoided vr till pico 4, thats a usable headddrt, quest 3 with its half kilo on your face just is a doa in my case
@@mirshia5248 it honestly doesn’t bother me. The battery life does so I’ll get that 3rd party battery strap when it’s in stock again.
u can do that in quest 2
I love that the wearable tech is getting closer and closer to the toys we had as kids. The spy gear stuff. It’s like the future catching up with my expectations. Which is also spooky for existential reasons 😂
If they ever invent that microwave from Spy Kids that like instantly cooks a burger and fries to perfection its officially over for me and the future will have arrived.
@@jtbout1159We need more competition in the microwaving industry lol
@@jtbout1159i’m so glad i’m not the only one that’s thought about this lmao this was my dream
6:36 Incredible transition
I have been wearing prescription glasses for more than 5 years now. If I can get Ray-Ban glasses for a little more money with those additional features, then I would love to try them first.
Just like smartwatches boomed as they replaced an already widely used product, normal looking glasses can also be something that a lot of people can buy.
wait till you start to get unskippable ads D:
@@mr.sloth.oh gosh no😅
It's a tad heavier so jusy fyi
The issue for me will always be vision fatigue. I can only be in VR so long before it’s physically uncomfortable.
They coming out with meds for that
That's a bit of a headset + processor limitation. A really comfortable headset with proper rendering is actually quite capable. My record was 6h in a headset (I think it was an OG Oculus Rift), because the AC was cranking and the game I was playing was very casual (some god-sim game). I remember going "oh, I have work tomorrow, what time is it? 7AM?!" pulls off headset and is blinded by the sunlight coming in... just never felt like the headset needed to come off. Once I switched to more action games, certain videos, etc. then it's only a hour or two before I need to take it off.
Try the new Quest 3, I use it all day. Its not perfect. but its like 80% of the way there to becoming something i could wear for hours on end. Although currently the battery is the biggest limiter.
'always'. We'll see about that.
I have done multiple 10 hour sessions of pavlov in one day. It is comfortable, wireless PCVR with the quest 2. I do have a third party headstrap that cost me 30 euro's. I put a 20.000mAh powerbank in my trouser pocket with a cable going under my shirt, so i have 12 hours of battery life
I honestly think that anyone investing in both will come out on top. Glasses for when you're out and about, goggle type for when you're at home, those are the scenarios I see myself using them in.
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Like earbuds vs. headphones. Makes sense.
@@N8mehfree them to blow up more of their own hospitals and blame it on Israel? Sure!
They opened by planning for years to attack as many civilians as possible (captured orders from attackers).
They started by targeting civilians at a music festival and intentionally killed 260 unarmed civilians.
There is footage of them grenading civilians in a bomb shelter.
They intentionally used a drone to bomb a clearly marked ambulance (against Geneva conventions … just like intentionally targets civilians) then after doing this they release the footage to brag about what they did.
When Israel told civilians to get out of northern Gaza the brave Hamas who were already using civilians as human shields went out of their way to tell the civilians in Gaza to stay put ensuring civilian losses.
Sure seems like if a hospital exploded it would come from Hamas right?
If Gaza or the West Bank exist in 6 months it’s because Israel was being generous.
Egypt won’t let Palestinians refugees through because there are too many terrorists in their midst. That’s why no one can escape to the South.
I personally would love the smart glasses. I think that the applications will get so insane very quickly. Imagine things like waypoints, driving directions, and games that will be so immersive with such a slim product.
the transition at 6:40 was very smooth!
I’ve said this for a long time, someday people will walk by the vr headsets we’re fascinated by today in a museum and marvel at how massive and clunky they used to be
yeah no shit thats what happens in progress... That works for everything always lmao
WOAH SO DEEEEPPP BRO
you know how funny it would be if they show the fucking virtual boy, and like "look at this, this shit stinks"
I can see this get pretty big in the home office space. It’s good now but will become even more useful in the future.
Which is really funny...because Apple and Facebook have both ordered their employees back to the office. Then they have complained their employees aren't using their VR product. Because why would they--they were ordered back to the office. Said another way--these mega tech conglomerates believe in their product SO LITTLE, they don't trust their employees to actually develop and test it at home like they expect users too--and then complain when the employees they forced to RTO aren't remote working at the office.
The arrogance of big tech in the USA is mind boggling.
That's what I'm thinking too. Once I could actually use it to work, I may start to think of it as a real option to consider.
I’ve been having a blast with my Quest 3. Some games still make me woozy,
but overall it’s been a ton of fun.
I think it'll eventually become something with a contact lens form factor
Like we saw in MI: Ghost Protocol if anyone recalls.
And then we can have that as a set with something else meant for audio purposes.
Oh I fear the future if we adopt this tech driven route
I have the Quest 3 and it's incredible. I can spend hours in VR without any problems. I would never use it in public, but for home use, even with the app Immersed, it's an incredibly useful tool. And the simulation games, like Microsoft Flight Simulator and racing sims, are a match made in heaven.
i currently have a quest 2 and was thinking of upgrading, with the amount of use you have currently do you think I should get a quest 3?
no wait@@epicman482
I'm also thinking about buying the quest 3, but for productivity. Do you think it's good enough for a multiscreen setup with the requirement to read text a see small things?
@@abeoist personally from what I’ve seen it’s 100% worth for things like multi monitor setups, reason why I’m hesitant is bc I will mostly play games on it and the quest 2 can do that pretty well already but the multi monitor stuff looks super cool
What do you use it for? I it capable being a Mac screen? I would like to have floating screens around me so I can work anywhere, as shown in Vision Pro event.
Using the quest 3 with virtual desktop or immersed to do computer work is incredible aside from the slow creep of the pressure on your face from the headset. More comfortable straps and lighter headsets will reduce and hopefully eventually fix that problem but it certainly doesn't need to go all the way down to glasses size. Maybe something like the bigscreen beyond size.
AR glasses I can't imagine ever being completely standalone and I think they'll always be connected to our phones. It'd be cool to play a more natural/less ui heavy version of say pokemon go or to see little minecraft builds hidden in public with AR but I don't think there'd be much of a reason to use them at home just like I don't use my smartphone when I'm at home.
I think glasses might be the way to go in the future. Knowing you can block behind them to make your own vr like experience. I could see a point where you insert the glasses into something like a vr headset enclosure (headband, speakers, maybe a computer with inside out tracking) and the glasses be the screens.
Regarding the keyboard, i single an haptic gloves connected to the Headset could help into having a feel for virtual objects.
Minute 11:13, that should have been the thumbnail lol. Looking dope in them glasses
I think something with the form factor of the Bigscreen Beyond except with passthrough would be the perfect median. Much less strain on moving your neck, but still big enough to have features that aren’t feasible just as glasses.
thats the dream. We're zooming towards that. I think Apple will accelerate this to amazing heights as the entire computer industry comes running in to grab a piece of what it thinks Apple is about to own.
@@ClayMann Apple doesn't really do that. Their game is to make huge markups on the hardware with their brand. Apple doesn't like to invest billions to become the first to do something because they can safe those billions just be an OEM who focuses on marketing and brand recognition etc. Look at the iphones. Samsung is the one coming with the new tech every year and Apple sometimes waits many years before they put it on the iPhone.
In the short term what I want to see is something like the bigscreen powered with an external and exchangeable battery like what Apple has *and* external compute. There are external gpus, make one that I can put in my pocket (I know that's hard for thermals, but it's easier than not having any gpu) and then I can have the compute and battery portal with me. Bluetooth earbuds went through that kind of awkward phase were people wore a neck thing with the earbuds connected to that.
If someone made it modular where you could have any mix, a PCVR with power supplied to being externally powered by a battery and/or gpu, I think that'd be really cool and sell well as it appeals to all markets, until we bridge that gap enough. External power will always be a problem to some degree though.
Valve from rumours only seem to be working on almost exactly this with their new headset. A partnership with AMD to make a small box, probably router sized that has a fairly capable GPU or APU so it gets CPU processing too. Then sell that as a standalone item where you can use it as a steam box but also the headset can tap into it and do PCVR with just the headset and that small box. Meta could be working on exactly that idea too for the headset further down the line where those perfect looking avatars we saw in the lex fridman interview form the basis of what your avatar looks like and a reality busting set of visuals that go with it for the envrironments that could mix seamlessly with a high quality passthrough. I think something like that would be in a Quest5, not the 4.
I really think by then, so 2026 and beyond we could be looking at all the GPU processing happening in the cloud which I know is not popular in the US with their shitty Internet but perhaps by that date Internet will be much better across most countries. That would seem like an ideal way to bring the cost of the headset down while raising the bar way up on whats possible visually@@zanebartlett8004
Bought the glasses two days ago. Sound is good, camera is solid, lots of interesting use cases. Love listening to podcasts while walking the dog and prefer thaw glasses to the jabrad. We are about to leave on a month long vacation and I will be capturing lots of pics and video. Maybe even live streaming bits to our kids and friends Good purchase!
To me it seems more likely computation will be done outside of the wearable and streamed to it. Sounds easier to solve internet speed/coverage than decreasing computer and battery size by that much.
A lot of VR/MR involves extremely real-time computation. No chance of anything but trivialities being streamed out.
@@contrapasta2454 you think we're closer to having an RTX 4080 on our heads? I understand streaming isn't there yet, but neither is having good computation strapped to your head.
i like what meta is doing, making it cost effective and i'm sure it will force the others to try to catch up with the market.
it's undeniable that this is the future.
I bet they have tonnes of ads and the constantly track you.
Nah, it’s actually very easy to question this being “the future”. Lol
@@sagarkalasa You think apple vision wont do that?
@@Bloooo95 You don't have comprehension skill. do you? He is talking about the concept. Not the product meta made.
Mark, is that you? 😂
As a long time user of the Ray Bands Gen 1 I really love it and I love the new case. The older case was black and bulky. I also love the new AI features
one thing that comes to mind is using the smart glasses as display and input for a portable computer in your pocket. So is just a matter of figuring out how to built in the sensors in a rayban and output it to your pocket device, which will be doing the heavy computational work. Would be my go to device for day to day usage outside of gaming or ny actual computer
Personally I am very excited to see where the smart glass tech will be in a few decades. I would love to be able to scroll apps like reddit, UA-cam, Google whatever with smart glasses or read a text or basically open or see anything I don't need to immediately reply to with smart glasses. Also imagine smart glasses to use while you drive that give you directions or alert you to road hazards, the tech is a really cool idea.
I have a quest 3 from launch, it is a huge improvement over my quest 2! We are finally getting to the point when it does not matter anymore if you wear it for a long time
How do your ears fare for extended use? I've heard the strap laying on the top of the ear is the biggest downside of the headset so I'm curious!
@@Murmaider4 I bought the elite strap from day one, so it’s hard for me to say. Generally the standard strap is not very good. It was like that for the second quest to. It only makes sense as you are hanging something very heavy on a peace of fabric in front of your face. Or the elite strap who has plastic to hold it up using the side arms. In general, if the default strap would be amazing, they would not sell a elite strap
Basement dweller moment
@@Murmaider4 bought the official meta elite battery strap. solves all the issues (it should have honestly shipped with it)
So excited to get one soon
Hey Marques. You can enable swipe typing on the Quest 3. It works quite well actually. :)
One important thing: The Quest 3 can be connected to a PC (wireless and wired) and function as a complete, really good PCVR headset. That was the kicker for me to just buy it. Considering the Index is twice as expensive with half the features.
I find it interesting the current Quest 3 has a lot of the same features with room mapping and AR features as the original HoloLens had many years ago. I had one for about two years and it was so far ahead with AR nothing has come close to it until now (IMO). Its really to bad MS has not moved ahead with anything further than the HoloLens 2. If they had everything else would be playing catch up.
By the way, the Quest keyboard also allows swiping. That's slightly better than poking in the air.
I feel like smart glasses would be amazing for creating memories with family and friends. My son is 18mths old and I want to capture our time together at this age, but whenever a camera comes out he is hyper aware of it and stops playing and focuses on that. Being able to easily capture candid moments would be amazing.
This still feels like a want than a need . I’m waiting to see where this tech goes in the next few years
I actually just watched this on my Xreal Airs Paired with my Rokid Station. A face mounted display in the form of sunglasses and an AndroidTv device. What a time to be alive!
Thanks for the great vids Marques! Your production quality is next-level! All the best for your bright future! Also pls: do a blind smartphone camera battle this year as the iPhones and pixels have launched
Marques I’d love to see you make a video about the current mixed reality players like Xreal, Viture or Rokid. None of them are that great yet, but as a once fanatic who’s kind of ‘over’ the current state of VR and impatiently waiting for the ‘smart glasses’ revolution, I’d love to get your take on those products and how far we’ve left to go.
Honestly this video feels half-baked because it didn't mention those types of devices which have also evolved a lot lately
Love my Rokids, but seems still very niche. I totally get your point though, it is the missing link between VR headsets and smart glasses!
I really like the idea of smart glasses. The smoothness and ease of use that is possible is insane. I hope that some tech company really invests in miniaturized ar tech.
I'd love to never have to buy a screen ever again. I'm 100% down with the idea, but no way am I gonna be an early adopter of the prototypes.
Those damn youngsters with their glasses. Back in my day, I had to use my own FINGER to surf the internet!!
I too thought it would be a distant future but after seeing the beyond headset, i'm sure it's going to be a lot sooner.
The way i see it going forward initially is probably a wifi connection from a more powerful device such as the phone , with pass through on the glasses. Eye tracking and AI to get rid of the current pancake lenses.
I have to say, I was able to answer text with ease on my iPhone with the Quest 3's passthrough mode. They are pretty cool considering the cost especially.
Yeah I dont understand this either. I hear everyone saying they can easily read texts on their phone with Quest 3 MR
Super watchable as always. I can’t see this tech advancing that quickly so I think the apple vision concept works for me at the moment.
I love my quest 3. Putting it on for the first time was legitimately life changing.
For the next 10 years, there will be a market for both, which is great for Meta. But I think the Vision Pro idea for putting the battery in your pocket is what will really let them come together. They will probably also start putting some of the compute power in your pocket, or leverage more of your phone's existing power. That way they can make them look a lot less awkward on your face without compromising the power. See-through screens rather than camera passthrough will also probably be a huge breakthrough for mixed reality, since eye strain is a huge issue.
Why are you shaking at the end when taking off the glasses?.. 12:45
Great vid man, thanks! Feel like the longer term future is some type of neurolink connected smart glasses. In the mean time, feel like smart glasses acting like a screen with the phone wirelessly acting as a computer, kinda like wireless car play. Suprised the smart glasses phone combination is not more advanced yet
Awesome video. The two races on the same spectrum. Great insights.
Loving my quest 3 so far. Of course gaming with it is fun, but everyone is sleeping on the real potential of VR which is for creatives working in 3d it is absolutely game changing. I just wish there was more software development to support that. It will take a while to really catch on.
I would love to see more things like History animations, sports and events in better quality in VR. There is literally so much one can do with a VR headset.
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Like what type of software. I think with immersed you can have infinite monitors for any editing work
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I'm only 2mins into this video but I just want to stop to say MKBHD has the best tech videos on planet earth. Rather than simply reviewing a new product like every other channel out there, he actually take the time to tell a cohesive story about the way tech impacts our daily lives. Well done 👏
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I saw some people saying that the 'recording' light makes the privacy/social issues disappear. But Google Glass had the same, and it got modded out within days. Then it was pointed out that there is a 60 second recording limit. That helps, but does not solve the issue - and it is probably already mod-able.
Perfect analogy with the prescription glasses
For me the quest pro does everything i need it to do right now. It completely replaced my PC displays for work and entertainment plus it's great for VR games. I can't think of anything i could ask more from it these days but i can't wait to see how the industry grows in the next decade!
Same here. I've completely replaced my monitors at work with the Q-pro and every co worker that tries it sees right away why they are so cool. A little better passthrough would be nice but having complete privacy even while at work in a cubicle is way beyond useful. I also think they are much better for that than the Q3 because of how seamless it is to get in and out of the headset.
It's definitely going to be interesting to see this field progress over the upcoming period. Especially after smartphone upgrades have become more dull.
The Focals by north glasses were so ahead of everything, it’s such a shame Google bought them and stopped production
The transition at 6:40 was sublime 😍
I feel like the end of the spectrum is not glasses but lenses. The challenges are multiplied because things have to be so small, but there is already some kind of technology that exists for it, they are not completely SciFi like neural implants are for now.
Also, I feel like this case deserves its own video, that is damn good engineering, up to that closing button that lights up
In my opinion if smart glasses just manage to replace smartwatches while charging just $50 - $100 more than smartwatches they could achieve mass adoption.
I think mixed reality headsets would take a lot longer. They need to be able to achieve functionality and usability similar to that of today's phones and laptops while causing less fatigue while using the same.
Well said. I completely agree.
You can wear a smart watch all day and all night and even to sleep. Can’t do that with glasses.
Am I the only one that found it funny when he was typing on thin air and looking forward 😂🤣 you just walk in the room and see your sibling doing it or your parents sees you doing that they’d rush you to the hospital or church 🤣🤣😂
Perfect analysis. I think the same, sometime it's gonna be so common as using a smartphone or an ordinary glass.
What I always ask myself, is if we need brain machine interfaces before augmented reality or a "metaverse" (by whatever definition) might actually be usuable
I haven’t touched my original Quest headset in so long but I really want to get the new model!
I feel like the future of both types of AR platforms are different and will split into 1 being more of a work and game device and 2 being more of an out in public just for fun device that doesn’t look like you have a toaster on your face. Though a sunglasses platform will always be fundamentally limited compared to a full headset.
I think smart glasses are way more likely to catch on for sure. Especially if we can mail putting AR into them to read texts and such way more people would want them. Like you talked about with an acceptance speech, you could just read it off from your glasses AR. Definitely the more interesting option to me.
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Love that you talked about these two! I tested the new 2.0 glasses a few weeks ago at an eye care convention and they definately improved the designs vs the original. I KNOW there will be larger adoption of these smart glasses - especially as they become thinner and the quality of the sound and video features continue to improve. (keep in mind the glasses have some issues - such as changing lenses if you need a prescription and adjusting them is nearly impossible). I think the larger headsets will be adopted by industry a lot sooner (they already have), such as in the medical field for eye/vision testing. Otherwise gaming will definately see a rise in VR as it continues to improve. But you are right, what an exciting time! Imagine in 10 years we may be able to look into the horizon and see giant arrows and other ads pointing toward a Starbucks or McDonalds just a few miles away 🤪
VR / mixed reality device at home, glasses outside of the home. The Quest 3 is already proving out the mixed reality experience with the ability to have media and 'spatial computing' experiences. I find myself using the Q3 in mixed reality mode more and more lately. I'd never wear it out in public, but at home is absolutely fantastic. The benefit of glasses is heads up display tech while being out and about, where I want to have absolutely zero latency view of the world. Walking around, riding a bike, driving a car, etc etc, all demand a transparent screen with additional detail 'mixed' in, not a camera doing passthrough onto a screen. When at home, the latency of pass through via camera is acceptable and I'd rather have the 'full VR' experience at my fingertips, something AR glasses just won't be able to provide. Its' phones and laptops, both are good, both have their use case and environment they thrive in.
Having played with the Quest 3, it's clear Meta has hit a home run with these. The problem is, who trusts Meta/FB enough to wear their glasses all day? I think it will be someone else who takes over this segment when it becomes a mass market proposition - possibly Apple.
I have a pair of nreal air and it just looks like regular sunglasses with a screen in it which i regularly watch any media on it during commute/walking or use Samsung dex as a desktop screen on the go. I even use it with my xbox and Asus ally as a theater screen when my partner is using the main tv.
I've even used it as an AR headset like a second dashboard in the car as a gps guide on the side of my vision.
So it does solves a lot of problems and ups your productivity. Just be aware of where you're walking into or don't miss your stop on a transit.
Gave this video a like at 6:40
I do not think very many people noticed.
@@heatherswanson9133 yup. Hence, the comment.
I upgraded to the Quest 3 from the 2, and am loving it. I am an Apple guy, though. Sticking with Meta until Apple can make something more affordable
I cannot wait to go back to this video in 5-10 years
10 years ago I was using a Sony Xperia Z2 and honestly, that fine would be totally fine to use as a daily driver today