{"id":18591,"date":"2017-08-10T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18591"},"modified":"2017-08-10T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:09:02","slug":"why-apples-glasses-wont-include-arkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/why-apples-glasses-wont-include-arkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple&rsquo;s Glasses Won&rsquo;t Include ARKit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/super-ventures-blog\/why-apples-glasses-won-t-include-arkit-46a1d40381fe\">Matt Miesnieks<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steipete\/status\/895584476880883713\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/super-ventures-blog\/why-apples-glasses-won-t-include-arkit-46a1d40381fe\"><p>I know glasses are being worked on at Apple, and the prototypes are state of the art. I also know what it takes to build a full-stack wearable AR HMD, having built fully functional prototypes from scratch. There are a bunch of elements that need to work before a consumer product can exist. These elements don&rsquo;t all exist today (even at the state of the art).<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>ARKit is a big deal for the AR industry. Not just because it&rsquo;s got Apple&rsquo;s marketing fairy dust, but because it means that developers now have a high quality &ldquo;6dof pose&rdquo; to use in AR Apps. <em>Everything<\/em> in AR is built on top of a high quality pose. Solid registration of digital assets in the world. Indoor &amp; outdoor navigation. 3D reconstruction algorithms. Large scale tracking systems. Collision &amp; Occlusion of digital &amp; real. Gesture detection. All these only work as good as the pose the tracking system provides. My <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/super-ventures-blog\/why-is-arkit-better-than-the-alternatives-af8871889d6a\">earlier article<\/a> explains more about how Apple did this &amp; how it all works.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The most important advantage re the Glasses is that Apple has Marc Newson on the team. Look him up if you don&rsquo;t really know who he is. He knows how to design cool glasses. One lesson I learnt at Samsung, is that Industrial Designers view glasses as one of the most difficult physical products to design, mostly because everyone&rsquo;s face shape &amp; taste is different, and there&rsquo;s physically almost nothing to them (ie can&rsquo;t add features to keep everyone happy, the design has to be very pure &amp; simple).<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Miesnieks (via Peter Steinberger): I know glasses are being worked on at Apple, and the prototypes are state of the art. I also know what it takes to build a full-stack wearable AR HMD, having built fully functional prototypes from scratch. There are a bunch of elements that need to work before a consumer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1499,31,1472],"class_list":["post-18591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-augmented-reality","tag-ios","tag-ios-11"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18592,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591\/revisions\/18592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}