• jabjoe@feddit.uk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Pretty sure any AR-glasses from the megacorps will add ads to real life soon enough. Any AR-glasses not from megacorp will be bought out to shut them down. Not like there is functional antitrust.

    • banazir@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yup, that’s bound to happen, which is why I’ve written off actual AR-glasses long ago. Maybe if there’s an OpenSource solution, but seeing how slow Linux phones are coming along, I’m not holding my breath. But I can still dream!

      • dukk@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        If there’s anything I’ve learned, some open source genius hacker will figure it out, publish an early demo with 99% of features, and then disappear off the face of the planet before they ever make it available.

        • jabjoe@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          That is because the technical challenge of making a prototype that is 90% of the way there is not the same as that last 10% and building a business around it. Those are very different skills. So you start needing a team, a business and money. It absolutely can be done, and there companies like Pine64 that do it. I’ve got a small one. Running a business is very hard. Running an open source business is harder as you are going against the grain of that world.