Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work(sightful.com) |
Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work(sightful.com) |
They are made by a company called real https://www.xreal.com/ . Not familiar with them but the tech seems to be impressive.
Still all this is pretty cool. These are the sorta things I wish I had when I was 17 after watching Cowboy Bebop for the umpteenth time.
Is it a ChromiumOS fork or something? Seems to only mention web applications and the only visible screens are a browser window.
Even if this product ends up being a sub-par in terms of expectations vs. reality, it's not unaffordable; and it may set a trend forward towards AR computing.
It does look, uh, a little weird on people's face. But at least it's not the size of a cat on your face.
As for the software, all we can hope is that they just open it up. Very few companies in the world can do software and hardware in perfect harmony.
I can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to do almost nothing useful on an airplane, between the web-apps-only paradigm and the issues with motion tracking on vehicles.
But, probably the future of laptops. Short screen component makers.