Smartphones Are Dead (But We FINALLY Know What's Next)

[@enricotartarotti]

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[@LiamAnthony_]

The biggest problem I see with this is that it's going to be another huge blow against privacy. With smartphones, not only do companys know where you are and where you've been with location tracking, but with glasses tech, they're even going to know what you're looking at - how long you spend looking at a certain advert or a certain product, It'll be taking a record of everything you look at

[@Martian74]

-2 social credit points for you. If it can augment what it wants you to see, it can also augment so we don't see things it doesn't want us to see by blurring out brands it doesn't like or making them disappear from view.

[@Neil-Aspinall]

If you have nothing to hide you will be fine Liam. By the way can we have your passwords as I am sure you have nothing to hide?

[@kuromiLayfe]

don’t worry .. you will only be able to get them steal your privacy if you pay for the $89,99 per week subscription excluding AI server usage per hour that adds $9,99 for 2 GPU runtime hours to generate the ads you see

[@mactep1]

Its not even about your own privacy, you choose to put on the glasses. But what about other peoples privacy?, how can you causally talk to another person, with a camera constatly pointing at you, without knowing if you're being recorded, its the same problem as Gglass and why this should be made illegal asap, you shouldn't have to sacrifice your privacy, because someone else chooses to look like a dork.

[@Jorge-ew6fk]

That´s a very accurate thought right there, it didn't came to my mind until now.

[@mrbr549]

Yes, ads delivered right in front of your eyes that you can't skip. I can hardly wait.

[@pirateluffy01]

Haven't seen an ad in ages

[@Goodgu3963]

@@pirateluffy01 I'm not sure if you've tried recently, but blocking ads on a smartphone is challenging. Blocking ads on a device that is mostly just a camera microphone and display, that is probably extremely locked down from modification, will be nearly impossible.

[@pirateluffy01]

@@Goodgu3963 If you use Android you will its not uncommon

[@woodypigeon]

@@Goodgu3963 AdAway works pretty good on android. It just feeds your internet through a local VPN. no root needed.

[@robelbelay4065]

I shuddered when I read this... Having something akin to unskipable KZbin ads or Google ads glued to your eyes is a dystopia we're 100 percent headed for

[@alux3552]

One source of common confusion is that "this new technology" shall replace the previous ones, I remember people saying that smartphones and tablets will kill the PCs and laptops, but here we are, we still use all of them regularly. We have to keep in mind that each of these technologies, no matter how useful and awesome they are, they cannot be used all the time and in all contexts....

[@arcomarco7131]

So true. I also think it will be not replacement but enhancement

[@Maxinequinzel]

Totally, I think we’re so far from replacing smartphones, and that the glasses will be nothing more than mere in-home entertainment

[@borisblagojevic571]

Agree.

[@bilboswaggings]

That is what everyone said about VR for gaming, but it takes a long time for a majority of people to be able to get their hands on them There are still people around the world who don't have access to normal glasses So maybe having to use your hand to hold your phone isn't something we need to change when most of that screen time is worthless doom scrolling

[@raduungureanu2080]

good point. but it was never about needing.

[@bilboswaggings]

@@raduungureanu2080 my point being the smartphone isn't going to die any time soon even if we move on to something else

[@jeremyandrews3292]

"You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!"

[@9mmfederalrimmed235]

VR in gaming has never gotten mainstream. I never saw an VR in my life and only few people may use VR. It kind of fizzled away.

[@Ultrazaubererger]

@@9mmfederalrimmed235 VR is still fizzling. I would like it to succeed because it's really cool and a completely new experience but I'm keeping my hopes low. There would have to be light VR goggles for below 200$ or really really good ones for under 400$ for it to have a chance and I'm not seeing that anytime soon with the current technology.

[@andrewcheshire244]

My next phone will be an old Nokia from the 90's. Removable battery, calls/texts, perfect for actually getting social again (after you get over anti-social media).

[@Johnslist]

So 'retro' yet truly progressive. Every other new iteration is regressive. Smart phones will be seen like smoking in near future, I only want basic communication. I use my 24" monitor for any real use, the phone is useless.

[@spankeyfish]

This is probably what the people who made the Light Phone were thinking of.

[@thorinbane]

Going back to blackberry and BB10 OS. Perfect for browsing had apps, security, great feel. Just a crap camera .

[@scroopynooperz9051]

The OG gangsters Nokia 3110 and 5110 will make a comeback and safe people from all the privacy- hacking alphabet agency snitch stuff 😂

[@ReynbowSync]

Wow, you're so edgy and unique. I'm sure that'll totally work for you.

[@MrBananahat123]

The vision with proper user control over hardware and the ai itself would be pretty neat. Unfortunately as long as ai is under corporate control I have little faith that my ai assistant will be working in my best interests.

[@mr.jamster8414]

I want my own R2-D2, not this dystopian crap.

[@ethimself5064]

@@mr.jamster8414 🤣

[@strandedinparadise8202]

@MrBananahat123 corporations found a way to keep us glued to our other devices all day - and to make us think it was our choice so I'm sure they'll find a way to get you to 'choose' to use an AI assistant

[@veganconservative1109]

We definitely still need to watch out for 'Hal', I'm thinking.

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Make that corporate AND political control. I trust neither.

[@mrunankBathe]

Most of us get onto our smartphones just to waste our time. That's what we need to change first.

[@rjk1404]

Frankly: The Smartphone is a tool that enables you to do what ever you like. If you "waste time" with it, you should consider having ideas for new usecases or use it less and participate more to the world around you (no rant, just my opinion). But I also want to give credits to you, because we can't ignore the fact, that there are lots of companies and individuals earning money in the attention industry.

[@enricotartarotti]

It's a tool and I believe this is up to society and people to do, not the companies making the devices or apps. They will adapt to the broader culture around how we use devices, privacy etc, not the other way around

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

Yeah but that's a choice to some degree as to how we use them. Of course we are very much conditioned to use them in that way, but we don't have to. They have effectively become little machines to help us consume, provide data, and be passive against major institutions to genuinely control most of our lives. But they could theoretically be used for political, organizing and resistance and personal enrichment... And shortly some people use these things to make beautiful art or photography or to share their literature et...

[@porvoonosho]

I've had a smartphone since 2000 (Nokia Communicator and Ericsson R380). I just switched to a dumb phone 2 months ago, and I'm never going back. I got my life and attention back.

[@newagain9964]

aint happening. ur shaking ur fist at a cloud. unless u choose totalitarianism.

[@cryohellinc]

Corporations will hear what we say, see what we see, and understand literally everything about us. Ah the fantastic future ....

[@MyVanir]

Better not engage in any wrongthink.

[@ericvulgate7091]

Double plus good!

[@godschild6694]

a nightmare

[@Agostoic]

Spoiler: they already do. Dystopia is next.

[@DavidHalverson]

The Central Artificial Intelligence Main Core will be the Leader of the next planet Earth in the coming technological revolution as AI becomes sentient. One corporation will be that of the One World Government, run by AI, all other corporations will be subservient followers or be assimilated if they are renegades.

[@naturligthinder]

A device that could record anything and send it to an online database sounds like a legal nightmare. I think it could become a thing but not 'The Thing'. The smartphone solved some many daily problems, it was all your digital devices in a neat package. Besides being handy in some situations, what would smartglasses solve that a camera app could not.

[@personzorz]

A smartphone is already a device that could record anything and send it to an online database.

[@naturligthinder]

@@personzorz But when using a smartphone it is clear. If someone starts pointing their phone in someones face the other party often reacts. With smartglasses you have to assume they are recording you at all times. And if we were to put our smartglasses in our pockets when not in use we have just made a worse smartphone.

[@woodypigeon]

You can stick a smartphone in your pocket and forget about it. The glasses would be on your face constantly beaming crap into your eyes.

[@shtboxgarage]

​@@woodypigeoneven if it isn't beaming light in your elites who knows how much data it's collecting in the background

[@woodypigeon]

@@shtboxgarage All my devices are de-googled and de-crapwared as far as possible, and running adblockers. It isnt a perfect solution, but it eliminates the worst of it.

[@Kraust]

Cool, so the whole point of this video was glasses that track your location every moment of every day to feed everything you see and hear into a huge data model without your consent?

[@mr.jamster8414]

*with* your "consent".

[@itzhexen0]

and a bunch of people in society recording you without your consent then that also gets fed to the big tech companies.

[@JohnDBlue]

I mean... Yes? Obviously? People who want this kind of cutting edge tech are gonna have to take risks in their privacy and security. It can't function in the crazy futuristic way envisioned without that access. Of course, we like to imagine digital security advances will handle the risks in an acceptable manner (not like anything digital is 100% secure even now) Though it is indeed a concern that your device might affect other people's privacy and security, so that's gonna be something regulations and whatnot has to address... and they're likely to be behind on these issues because tech is hard for old men lol

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

​​@@mr.jamster8414 Right. Basically by agreeing to use the operating system and the phone when you sign up, you're giving so-called consent . Of course there's only two major operating systems and you can't participate in society without them. The mobile tech industry is particularly egregious with the way to handle repair and environmental e-waste. I need Christ, unreparable air pods and true wireless earbuds are little fossils of capitalism that won't degrade for thousands of years after humans are gone. Hundreds of dollars of something is designed to be e-waste in years. And look I have several pairs of true wireless earbuds so I'm not trying to suggest I'm above this. But when you really think about the business model, it's just unconscionable.

[@TheFeatInk]

Yeah this vid is really dumb hey, what a bore

[@Happy_Shopper]

I dont want to have an intrusive ai strapped to my face. I want to live life free from dependence on technology. I wish people were more opposed to the idea of artificial intelligence being baked into every facet of modern life which is where we seem to be going

[@WalterLoggetti]

Wait until Kiroshi Optics will come out... :)

[@margra99]

I dont want to have an intrusive human strapped to me. I want to live life free from dependence on humans.

[@HDSPKSRecords-gi1ob]

@@margra99 There is a solution, but you won't like it.

[@karlsnowsill208]

I agree, this is why google glass flopped, in many spaces it was banned because people thought it was creepy and people didn't want the artificial tech world encroaching on the real one. People are more opposed to tech now, they've had a decade to see what it has done to society.

[@Neil-Aspinall]

Happy, report to Room 101 for reprogramming. Independent thought should and will be illegal soon enough. Big Brother is only thrying to help you.

[@findlay234]

Gosh can you imagine walking down a busy street... "sorry are you talking to me?" This is where I see the sticking point of AR in glasses, the interface is hard... typing is still private and secure, talking out loud, not so much. Interesting to see how it pans out. I think neuralink is a potential route through, perish the thought.

[@HesselFolkertsma]

I will always be fascinated by technological developments, but on the other hand… …more tech consuming, more gadgets, more distractions, more ecosystems, more batteries, more raw materials, more kobalt, more people at the lowest steps of the socionomic ladder suffering, more problems. Anyone else feel that way sometimes?

[@pirateluffy01]

Well tech has to progress and it will progress (although i feel that sometimes too)

[@HesselFolkertsma]

@@pirateluffy01 Yeah I totally understand, and I'm not against it progressing either. I love dreaming about optimistic sci-fi future worlds. But I get the impression the current tech-world is not pursuing progression for the betterment of humanity.

[@customjuices]

Yes.

[@RxLush]

I thunk you are missing a point: Everybody wanted a computer that fit in their pocket, but only a small fraction of people want a device watching and hearing everything you do. And I know, I know, smartphones already do it, but most people do their best to not use those features. I dont know any “non-geek” person that use any of the things you mentioned. Including assistances

[@AntoniatheUniverse]

Great video, but imagine streaming your whole life to Mark Zuckerberg. I'm sure he would never misuse our data!

[@Martian74]

Exactly! Please don't remove your glasses, as we care about you, and we can protect you from seeing anything that is objectionable. If you look at any brands that don't advertise with us, we will blur the image and superimpose ads for better products, ones that pay us to advertise to you. If we see you vote for someone that is not approved we will be forced to lower your credit score, if we see you eating cake and smoking, your insurance cover will get more expensive because we care about you. If you please us, we will allow the glasses to release chemicals that will bring you pleasure, but if you displease us, an electric shock will be released till you repent, because we care about you. Please note, the next model comes with non-removable straps to firmly affix the glasses to your face at all times, even when you sleep, because we love you.

[@asdf8948]

Smart glasses is going to be a privacy nightmare. I hope they are going to be banned in public places.

[@alexwr]

Well, it's not currently illegal to film in public places (in most countries), why would that change with smart glasses?

[@zman7357]

there's cameras all over in public, most stores, traffic cams, dash cams, phones when anything interesting happens.

[@stielimusterman3066]

@@alexwr Yeah, but these devices won‘t just record, but also relay said data, which is illegal in most countries and should be illegal everywhere.

[@airsicklowlander7756]

It is illegal to record public conversations in many places

[@zman7357]

@@airsicklowlander7756 it's legal in the US.

[@redbloodcell4047]

AR glasses just seem like an easy way to collect even more user data while also delivering even more intrusive advertisements, which I feel is the primary motivation behind developing such technology.. Also it seems like people could be one software error away from being run over by a car.

[@garveziukas]

The major problem with AI glasses is that the server side part is hugely expensive which means expensive memberships on top of expensive product for the clients. Until an advanced AI model becomes very efficient or fit onboard, this will not be viable. At first it will only be fit for narrow niches like the ones you mentioned in the video.

[@MG-js8bn]

There were invasion of privacy LAWSUITS, actual lawsuits, that resulted from the Google Glass experience. If the user doesn't have complete control of something that sits on one's face, and in the paradigm we live in these new gadgets definitely WILL NOT be user-controlled to a great extent (unless you think of the company as the actual user), this will not be tempting to a huge number of people.

[@johnb6749]

You know, it occurs to me that the glasses might even be a 'straw to beak the camel's back' in terms of our relationship with ever-more pervasive and invasive distraction of so-called 'smart devices'. To me I'm almost sick to death of having every train of thought, idea or attempt to know more interfered with and confused by for example a search engine like Google. The glasses sound like a living-hell for the wearer - even your vision being interrupted by overlays and voice-prompts. All I want to do when I turn my attention, either through my hearing or vision, to something other than myself, is to be able to do so with my ears or eyes, otherwise reality itself which is delivered by our body's senses will not only be corrupted but gradually become something of which we have little capability to process without some attached technology. Sound like hell - imagine being born and seconds later (or maybe even before!) having implants and devices attached to our body for the duration of our life. Good grief - advertising able to be inserted into our dreams and unconscious-states - I can se it coming and feel so sorry for future generations.... the horror. I thought subliminal advertising was pretty bad when it first became public knowledge decades ago - but the extrapolation of today's technology seems to promise an essentially un-human future for us all - all for the sake of selling us the latest tat no doubt....

[@woodypigeon]

AR sounds hellish - even assuming you can get a decent ad-blocker for it.

[@jeremyandrews3292]

You're pretty much talking about the Borg from Star Trek, right? Except instead of them being distant aliens that assimilate us, they are the future we're creating for ourselves.

[@TheStarBlack]

Totally agree. They're not inventing this stuff because it'll make out lives better, but because it'll make them richer.

[@novacorponline]

Smart glasses have failed like, how many times so far? There are far too many practical problems for them to work. Just for one example, the balance between "Able to see the UI in any lighting conditions" vs "Able to see reality clearly" is impossible to strike.

[@alexwr]

Not to mention even more battery constraints, and just having to sit on your face for the whole day.

[@CaptainKremmen]

Not to mention those of us who wear glasses already and want zero additional hardware added to them. (Field of view/weight/comfort would all be affected.)

[@mevensen]

Not to mention that large number of people who don’t like wearing glasses at all, or need/like a variety of glasses, so you can’t just have one device.

[@WizardOfWor]

This. Smart Glasses will only backfire in the long run.

[@bessimaestro]

Super super cool, but very hard to ship: since you can't run such large models using the glasses hardware, you would need a 5G connection to call a server running the multimodal AI model.

[@InventorZahran]

We need better 4G coverage, not 5G!

[@salvsays]

The end of privacy is near. Cameras on our faces recording every sound every image everywhere all the time. Also having to gesture to the sky or talk out on the open to do something seems like it needs tweaking

[@Neil-Aspinall]

The death of privacy and independent thought will be the greatest thing to happen to mankind since the wheel Sal.

[@KaioFalcrow]

I think for most people it would be uncomfortable to wear something. It’s way more comfortable to have something in your hand or pocket. So I don’t see glasses replacing smartphones 🤔 if something is gonna replace smartphones, it’s just another, more advanced type of smartphone in my opinion 🤔

[@newagain9964]

ooookkkkkkkk. ur like person shaking head at the automobile and its internal combustion engine, it will NEVER replace the horse

[@KaioFalcrow]

@@newagain9964 hahah no, usually I think things are gonna change, for example I think AI will replace a lot of jobs. But I just don’t see people wearing glasses all the time, I might be wrong of course!

[@WalterLoggetti]

I wear glasses, not smart, but for see things well. What a glorious day will be when i can see informations directly in front of me with my glasses... :)

[@kellyanderson995]

I've always wanted an AI parrot sitting on my shoulder like a pirate. It would remember all the things I'm supposed to do, remind me of appointments, tell me when I was not being consistent and all kinds of things like a little Jiminy Cricket. I could also send it up in the air to get a little more situational awareness, like what's around the corner, where's my mom and such. Even put a projector on it, and the nearest wall becomes a screen. Or integrate it with the glasses. I think you're probably right about all this stuff, but an AI parrot is still a pretty cool idea too.

[@woodypigeon]

Nah, a pigeon would be better. Pigeons are ace.

[@swagmuffin9000]

sounds like a privacy nightmare, and smartphones already are a nightmare.

[@breadman32398]

Awesome! Now I can have unskippable ads for homemade arthritis remedies that take up my entire field of vision!

[@qdavi1831]

when i see a giant ad from mc donalds in front of my eyes, you can securely say that someting is about to burn

[@CESAR_H_ARIAS]

Next we all are going to loose the last bit of privacy we still have and we'll clap them on the stage for taking it from us!

[@swagmanandy]

The most important thing invented was the wheel.

[@ThisSteveGuy]

Whatever the next thing is, it needs to solve an actual problem people are having.

[@jackpisso1761]

I don't think people will be comfortable being on camera and recorded by anybody all the time.

[@randomdude-4353]

I don’t care how advanced the tech is I’m not talking to a computer

[@redbloodcell4047]

I've only ever met a single person who actually used voice assistants like Siri.

[@personzorz]

Why does there have to be something next? That is an assumption about the way the world works, rather than a deduction

[@Kolesha]

The shout out to Yagami Light was brilliant.

[@kjellvb1979]

For me, until the glasses are self contained and don't require a link to the internet and corporate servers, this tech won't be for me. I already hate cell phones for their privacy invasion, but at least I am tech savvy enough to limit that to a degree. But still we need a less corporate based world if this type of tech is not to be abused.

[@DodoNn]

I never understood how Google Glass flopped so hard. It was exactly what for me, a 15 year old then, a future looked like, and it still makes sense. I also do not understand how for 10 years no one, not even Google, has come close to that again? Like, it exists??

[@AntoshaPushkin]

Because it's a gimmick, just like VR. It's fine to play around with it for a few days, but then you get bored. Also it has quite a lot of issues: it becomes pretty much useless on a sunny day, it drains battery fast, and it's quite clunky. It's not a good device for a consumer, it's a good toy you could present as a gift to your geeky friend

[@stielimusterman3066]

The real question should be what‘s wrong with the present in that context and is it really in the consumers interest to force "innovation“ just for the sake of being innovative...

[@thorinbane]

Because it was garbage and some of us gen x people remember when privacy meant something and looking like a weird geek was bad.

[@aformofmatter8913]

Yes, it looks like the future. Because that's what it was designed to do: *look* like the future. In the 50s, people thought the future would look like shiny foil shirts & big boxy robots. But those shirts are pointless & look dumb & our ability to miniaturize robots advanced faster than they could've anticipated (while simultaneously, our ability to make AI advanced way slower than they expected) In the 80s & 90s, people thought the future would look like food pills & flying cars. But people like eating delicious food & flying cars are an awful, impractical idea for more reasons than I can list. In the 2000s, people thought that the future looked like AR glasses. Simple as that. Nobody gets the future right because reality is stranger than fiction & is bound by practicalities that writers (& tech bro executives) never seem to predict.

[@TheStarBlack]

Because people don't want it

[@selfhelp9175]

I've already replaced my smartphone with an Apple Watch series 9 GPS+Cellular. I have the summit white nike band. I use it to make calls, send texts, for Apple Pay, reading emails, and Apple music when I'm at the gym. I turn on cellular when I need to make a phone call and then switch it off. It lasts all day 5:30am - 10pm at night on single charge. When I tell people I don't use a smartphone anymore I just use my Apple Watch. They always give weird/strange looks. But they have no idea the amount of freedom this brings you. The mobility of apple watch paired with the productivity of the iPad mini 6 makes a great combo imo. Hope this helps.

[@kootenpv]

I'm going to get my eyes lasered in 2 weeks not to have to wear glasses all the time. I really wonder if smart glasses will be the future...

[@personzorz]

No

[@BootJamesOut]

Hello folks: Soon will all be a walking computer hard-wired and online full-time. Nickname, On-liners. At 65 in age, I still have to ask to go to the washroom with permission first. Day one in school to death Sad but true and never Free. As school the training machine that limits are free thinkers to think on are own. Roll up your diploma and smoke it. Remember what rolls down hill. So don't step into it, oh SH T___. Corporation runs the government as they overview the workforce ( work and force, Scarry) are the blackmailer hidden with protection offered by the corporate world and the laws control and police us all that who isn't invented. That's why that sign reads. Keep off the grass. Music Frank Zappa song Slime. Whine up working in a gas station. Ride Easy

[@alanfitzgerald9026]

Glasses replacing a brick in your hand is very improbable

[@Isaac-X-edit]

In the future phone will be made from Bamboo.

[@daemon1143]

It has yet to be demonstrated that it won't lead to dying in space (or the analogous outcome for whichever location the victim finds themselves).

[@laurentziu7895]

I dont know if you actually going to read this comment. I really appreciate your content, but for a while it has felt a bit clickbait-ish and cliffhanger-ish. I mean, showing the 4 pieces of the puzzle and then blurring them? As an adult conscious about wasting time on the internet, I feel like this insults my intelligence a bit. I dont think you should have to appeal to such techniques, as you have good video topics and interesting takes on them. I feel like this distracts from the information quality and focused on "tricking" people into giving your attention. Just my 2 cents.

[@tamagodonald7149]

to be fair it might stay for longer but we'll see in the future what beholds

[@genetico909]

This next phase won't begin for another eight years (at least). Right now they are still conditioning society to be ready to submit to the terms and conditions this next phase in tech will demand for access to it. The name of the game right now is to promote the idea of no individual privacy, pro censorship for the sake of your security, and no private ownership of anything physical or digital. They introduce these concepts in small amounts with changes here and there while they wait for the old generation to die out and the younger generation is old enough to replace them. There will be those that resist but it will not take much to make them submit. Exclusive access to the latest and greatest popstar's latest album, the ability to play Call of Duty 45 or Halo 3000, interactive lifelike porn etc. It's important to pose these questions to everyone... We stand at an influx in how society progresses. Is there a threshold to be reached before you stop? How much is convenience worth to you? Does access to certain kind of information hold a higher value over others? Have you ever stopped and wondered what you are losing in exchange for what you currently have? Are you a human being or an input/output device and what is the difference?

[@Goodgu3963]

This will be the downfall of user privacy. Everything you see, hear, do and say will be recorded and use to train Ai models on how to manipulate consumers. If not manipulate you personally. It is already happening, but this is the real driver behind these products. It's not about making you more productive, it's about making you as a product more valuable to real consumers that pay for your time spent watching ads.

[@nickbrough8335]

Interesting POV. I have a different perspective. Producing IP, indeed content as a whole is expensive even when the content is prepared for "free" as on youtube. IP and content owners are NOT going to give that to AI for free (just as old media is seeking to generate replacement revenue from Google et al for using its content for free). This battle has only just begun. As a consequence more IP, content and data is going to stay behind paywalls (your blog on why google search is not as good as it was shows this effect very clearly), so those who create AI are ultimately going to have limited free access to the same limited public data as google search currently has. Chat GP style AI may well be able to present the data much better than google search does, but the quality of content will be lacking in far to many specialist areas. What AI is most likely going to deliver to users is assistant/secretary functions that will enable high skilled/knowledgeable people to become much more efficient and productive at the cost of removing lower skilled, lower IQ people. I dont doubt that everyone will benefit from this to a significant degree. However, when it comes to the technology you carry around, the interface may well change (VR glasses, the wearable projection shown in your video), but its still going to need to have a processing box (aka evolved smart phone) to do the heavy lifting as well as much higher bandwidth data/coms network. It looks to me that the way we interface with smart phones will change (from touch to voice/eye driven), but the pocket sized portable computer will be around for quite a long time yet. The other issue is that the internet itself is expensive and is becoming increasingly shit to use due to higher number of ads, subscription costs and i don't see this changing. The increasing use of paywalls to protect IP and content to allow content/IP owners to make a living from their investment is just gonig to continue to fragment the internet. I do agree that AI itself is going to change the content we watch for entertainment and how it is produced. Consensual shared virtual realities may become much more common as entertainment rather than TV.

[@frankbrislin4378]

"Hey Google, turn on the lights; and stop spying on me."

[@respecttheconstitution1146]

Yeah, glasses are perfect. Like walking around in the city and getting you glasses snatched from your face from one of those "scholars" or "teens". Brilliant.

[@looppp]

I work in the LLM and AI space, and I also agree that multimodal AI is the next step. The stuff I'm able to build with just existing multimodal models, and it's mind blowing. As the cost of these models go down further, it's going to replace a lot of existing tech architectures/systems, i.e. for product discovery.

[@rattsjcfanpage01]

No thank you, I don’t want anything that has to do with AI. I’m getting a new flip phone in a week or so.

[@Radulf666]

The only interesting thing what I'm thinking of is advertisement. So when you walk around, and then you normally see these billboards, with an AR-Glass this could be animated, popping into your vision, and you couldn't look away. Sure, it could be cool like Bladerunner to see 3D with it (2 displays) but the power we give the companies...

[@xpiredpap]

I can imagine glasses bateries exploding on people faces

[@ausbare140]

Soon we will have "Don't trust any one who wears glasses"

[@_Mike.P]

Another big ai step would be to have personal ai’s talk to each other. Like I asked my ai to ask the dentist’s ai to schedule an appointment. Or ask my ai to ask all my friends ai if my friends are available for a movie on a specific date.

[@nickbrough8335]

Digital assistants will become real taking the mundane and trivial away from us. However, what will we actually do with the additional free time either due to the replacement of people with AIs or because we have more time due to AI assistants. The more fragmented society becomes and the less we have to work to live, the rate of mental ilness increases. The lack of personal fulfilment problem.

[@funkyfranx]

Why wouldn’t you just ask your friends directly? Asking your AI, to ask their AI, to ask them, is just adding an extra step for the same result you’d get with a text exchange

[@robertmcgee4050]

My understanding is that every Tesla car is streaming video to a supercomputer for analysis. Do you think Tesla is a good candidate to be first to market with smart glasses? Like Arby’s, the have the meats already - tons of video data already being used to train their version of AI.

[@Haephasto]

As a teacher, I can say that I would probably use these for work, but only work. Having the name and file of each student handy would be very useful in a class. However, I don't see this replacing a smart phone for the simple reason that it has as of yet not gotten a proper way to input text. I think the key component of success for a device (until people just get chips implanted, I mean) is to be able to type. I don't think people will be comfortable typing on something without feedback (ie. a table surface), because projected keyboards have been available for ages and don't get used a lot. Phones solved this problem with touch-based vibration. It gives the person typing a form of feedback to satisfy the senses. How would pins or glasses solve this problem?

[@Jimbowholivesinsoup]

Isnt it see all as equal. Or would it help in Your work 'well, this student is a C dude, I wont even pay attention to his presentation too much - D' :D

[@LeFerdieTeaching]

Nothing like getting ads directly into your eyes and giving literally all the information about you to ad sellers. I think most people right now, are really into getting less devices, and ads and all that mumbo jumbo out of their lives, than putting them even more into control of themselves.

[@siraaron4462]

*sigh* Annother one swept up in AI hype - I hold a lot of respect for you but this feels like a round about way of saying "AI + wearables= the next big thing" without making a clear case as to why, other than raw investment - where's the nuance I've come to expect from you? Where's the clear vision you touted at the start? The thing is I kinda agree with you, but we should be focusing on finding the Goldilocks form factor and design our AI for the hardware (while prioritizing user safety) and not the other way around.

[@enricotartarotti]

My intention was exactly to avoid just showing "new AI stuff" or repeat the news, but connect the dots instead to what I see as a vision of the future. Thanks for the constructive comment

[@MrC0MPUT3R]

A product manager who is completely out of touch with what users want??? Impossible.

[@Angelmunoz_19]

9:01 you’re welcome

[@JuanTheBone]

If you already wear glasses this seems like a no brainer, if you are not a normal glasses wearer the idea of wearing them constantly will make your nose bridge hurt. So don't wear them all the time? At that point its no different than just taking out your phone when you need to.

[@D_S_88]

Close, but you're slightly off. The next 'device' to transcend the ubiquity and use/usage of smart phones is going to be something implanted into the human body; biometrics - facial recognition/retina scans, etc. were the purpose of mass producing and normalizing smart phones in the first place - free data pooling; with the added benefit of being surveillance based and purposed of course. Just look at all the POS palm readers that are being rolled out and put into grocery/retail stores all over the world. Spearheading this are brands such as Whole Foods and Amazon. I'd wager more are to follow soon. In fact technology that would have seemed impossible to exist will be revealed quickly over the next seven years. I hope you're ready to embrace this new technocratic 'utopia'. I have a feeling many will reject it once they understand it's true use and the intent behind said use. Anyways thanks for the video and have a blessed day. 🙏

[@AronFiechter]

There's just an issue with the AI devices, and it's that they suck very hard

[@DanielArnolf]

It was good until you said "AI Pin", nope, it's a joke, if that's what the super secret geniuses+ came up with, well, it's hopeless. If everybody has the glasses, nobody is superhuman but more miserable and overwhelmed by daily "superhuman" expectations. At the end, it's all about making money.

[@devilichus]

Enrico you are really smashing it. Your videos are streamlined and addictive to watch because of how streamlined the environment, the topic and the visual quality it all matches nicely. Great job!

[@paulwary]

AR is a no-brainer (he he no brainer) for an aging population. I'm 64 and already misplace things a lot, or go out without taking everything I need for a task. If AR could simply remind and correct stupid oversights, that would already be a great boon. The uptake would be eased to older people too, because most aready need vision correction, and they dont care as much about how they look. I had the dystopian thought yeaterday that when AR is adopted widely for the aging, at some point you wont know how much assistance is being provided, so you have potentiallty AI-driven Alzheimer zombies walking around :).

[@Martian74]

Exactly! Please don't remove your glasses, as we care about you, and we can protect you from seeing anything that is objectionable. If you look at any brands that don't advertise with us, we will blur the image and superimpose ads for better products, ones that pay us to advertise to you. If we see you vote for someone that is not approved we will be forced to lower your credit score, if we see you eating cake and smoking, your insurance cover will get more expensive because we care about you. If you please us, we will allow the glasses to release chemicals that will bring you pleasure, but if you displease us, an electric shock will be released till you repent, because we care about you. Please note, the next model comes with non-removable straps to firmly affix the glasses to your face at all times, even when you sleep, because we love you.

[@Eric-qi9us]

as the technology advances, we lose our privacy more and more

[@HouseholdDog]

No idea why you would spend 1600 on a phone.

[@InventorZahran]

Two words: status symbol

[@HouseholdDog]

@@InventorZahran Sad but true.

[@Squirrelsquid]

I really can't see Smart glasses be the next big thing honestly. Way too many technical hurdles to be solved still. The privacy nightmare... Also, the interaction will be far more limited than your average smart phone. I can see them finding their niche, but I doubt it will be the next revolution.

[@SamuelKarani]

Feels like hype/speculation borderline wishful thinking. Why are all tech reviewers always talking about a future that never happens? Crypto, VR/MetaVerse, NTFs, now AI is the future. It seems what's proclaimed to be the future is what is definitely NOT going to happen.

[@marloelefant7500]

With AI smart glasses, Meta/Facebook will also see and hear everything in my life in real time.

[@Doom364Em3w]

I've been saying that smart glasses are the future ever since I bought a dev model Google Glass. it's satisfying finally seeing the technology finally start to catch up with the vision.

[@enricotartarotti]

So cool! Do they still work? I heard they cut software support, would have loved to try them

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

I think we might be further away than people think... The fact that Apple has such a modest release in the United States in 2024, with such a high price point and they announced a year ahead of times only showing stimulated results I mean normally when apple releases a new product, it's available within days. It's been produced at scale. It's a huge event globally. Apples capacity to take smart ideas like the mp3 player or the smartphone and produce them at unthinkable scale is truly its bread and butter. But seeing them with such a limited release... I don't know something just felt off about it.

[@michaelcorcoran8768]

To be clear, there will be functional glasses. I'm not saying it's going to be a disaster. I just don't think we're going to be discarding phones for any time soon. These things will supplement smartphones for quite some time. I think before they become the pervasive central unit for mobile communication. Whether it's 10 years or 20 years or 5 years I don't know I tend to lean towards the larger numbers

[@Doom364Em3w]

@@enricotartarotti sadly, no. like anything else with a battery, it degraded to the point where it was no longer worth using. it was a great prototype, and I don't regret buying it, but it did have a lot of flaws, battery life being one of its bigger ones.

[@Doom364Em3w]

@@michaelcorcoran8768 oh, it's for sure not anytime soon, but we can see it over the horizon, and that's exciting.

[@MLB9000]

The real advance of AI will be that it can write code on the fly, so there won't be any more apps. It will be able to predict what you want before you even know you want it and write software that delivers it, then that code will evaporate once the task is completed.

[@theastuteangler]

"Smart" phones ruined everything

[@negvey]

Smart phones didn't ruin anything, you did!!

[@malice4422]

Social media*

[@MrChrisRP]

I tell this since forever. I know you know. Rock on.

[@ahfa2010]

@@negveytf did he do??? crash the american economy?

[@arcomarco7131]

"because we humans cannot absorb complex information just by hearing" since when?

[@robertruffo2134]

You live in a techie bubble. You also already wear glasses. I don't. I do not want to start. Then there are the millions of legal and social issues that will push back against all of this. Then there is the fact that disconnecting is trending, for mental health reasons, not being even more connected. No. The real future of consumer tech is slow decline.

[@Goodgu3963]

You wear headphones. You will wear glasses.

[@arsims1]

For me it seems difficult and impossible to replace smartphones with smart glasses.

[@personzorz]

I'm not used to you just putting out buzzword salad. Disappointing.

[@InventorZahran]

I know, right? I was trying to listen to what he was saying, but all I could hear was "buzz, buzz, buzz!"...

[@zeitgeist888]

I think you nailed it with the features and needs of the next connected device beyond smart phones. AR glasses that allow you to hear responses and have a mic to listen to your voice and inputs as well as a camera to view what you see and take pictures or video while also having a screen to project information all hands free is the next logical step. Having a device that keeps the hands free and head up and ears unblocked means situational awareness and safety are greatly enhanced. Hands free ability to translate language heard/spoken or in text format and the ability to make or receive calls and texts while walking aware of your surroundings and phone in pocket is freedom. Add in AR directions for GPS guidance and you have most of the total package. Corporate and enterprise users could benefit from step by step instructions and remote support being able to assist by being able to see and hear what you are seeing and hearing. Use the phone as the brains/connection and just add glasses for screen, camera, mic and speaker interface. That keeps the price, size and weight down and battery drain lower too.

[@Martian74]

Exactly! Please don't remove your glasses, as we care about you, and we can protect you from seeing anything that is objectionable. If you look at any brands that don't advertise with us, we will blur the image and superimpose ads for better products, ones that pay us to advertise to you. If we see you vote for someone that is not approved we will be forced to lower your credit score, if we see you eating cake and smoking, your insurance cover will get more expensive because we care about you. If you please us, we will allow the glasses to release chemicals that will bring you pleasure, but if you displease us, an electric shock will be released till you repent, because we care about you. Please note, the next model comes with non-removable straps to firmly affix the glasses to your face at all times, even when you sleep, because we love you.

[@Aidanptrs]

Me personally, I’d much prefer using my hands to control physical objects, like buttons, and touch screen, and I don’t think I’ll ever see smart glasses more than an accessory

[@burlingk]

I would argue that Google Glass didn't flop. It was not fully implemented to a point where it had a chance to flop. They backed out before it got moving.

[@DerbJd]

Remember mobiles with removable antennas? You could unscrew it while talking to someone you didn't want to... "Hello? Hello?? Lost the signal..."

[@FractalPrism.]

the clicky sound effects that happen constantly throughout the video make it impossible to watch its so gross i hate it

[@Fennek_Kaipii]

Knowingly calling out smarthome automations should become a crime to this day...

[@bipolargamechanger]

The more I watch KZbin and see what’s going on in the world…

[@UnwieldilyElephant]

what about the 40% of the population who cares too much about their hair to wear glasses?

[@sterlingdennett]

They'd better not try for a voice interface as your primary interface. Random background noise can be filtered out, but what about other people talking nearby, OR people using a similar device nearby? Talk about interference! Add to that the unreliable nature of voice input these days! I don't think even AI can fix that! Even if it could, it would still take YEARS of fine-tuning!

[@RoofusRoof19]

This is when people are gonna be mass pulling out of big tech's nasty schemes

[@S.E.C-R]

I am super excited for  Vision Pro to be released this year, if they can do this, you know they’ve been working on glasses also that are probably already years ahead of Metaberg’s!

[@frankbrislin4378]

13:45 I wonder what impact having these monitors in front of of our eyes for extended amounts of time will have. 🤔🤔🤔

[@Egon_Freeman]

The only issue I really see with this (apart from the ads we'll all be seeing...), is the fact that there's _NO WAY_ this will be something you can download and install to run locally/on your own server (or NAS, or RasPi, or what have you). Nobody in their right mind will release these models into public hands. This will be Google, or Apple, or Microsoft, or Meta. Then there'll be terabytes of data to store and reference - even if _you_ don't notice it, the AI will. All of this means that, once this gets going, our _very lives_ will become part of the cloud... and at that point I don't see how we could escape corporations doing _whatever they please_ with it all. Yes, eventually open-source models will get developed - they will be _not quite the same thing_ and won't have all of the features the Big Ones will (simply because they won't have access to _all of that data_ they'll accumulate and be able to cross-reference), but they'll run locally on your PC. Someone will find a way to hack the glasses so that they connect to your home IP instead of Their Own Home. But it will take time, and just like a lot of open-source today - it just won't be as robust as the Major Players, simply because it'll exist _in isolation._ And the worst part is: since the only way to get this level of immersion is to _have the data to do it,_ you can't have it without becoming part of the collective yourself.

[@ChrissyOneMusic]

Glasses aren't going to replace phones because they only do a few things well. They can't replace a phone camera, for instance. The great thing about a phone with a screen rather than a viewfinder is it doesn't have to be stuck to my face all the time. I can hold it up high or down low. And glasses can't take a selfie. Also, you wear glasses, so you're used to having them on your face all the time. I got lasik years ago and while I still need readers for close up, I'm very happy to not wear glasses all the time now, and I certainly don't want to pull them out every time I'd normally use my phone. Glasses are also more fragile and difficult to carry, you can't stuff glasses in your back pocket. If anything, glasses will supplement your phone like the Apple Watch does. But there are just too many limitations apart from the direct interface benefits you mention - and those are valid, and very useful. But not to the degree that will replace the role of a phone.

[@Scribz1212]

As someone who uses xreals with dex daily for over a year, these are beyond the next iPhone

[@Ou8y2k2]

AR/VR has been the next 'big thing' for the last 20 years, only it never materialized in large enough numbers. The 4GB iPhone 1 was $739 adjusted for inflation; the Apple Vision Pro will be $3500 next year. It could very well sell out, but PC and Android competitors have existed for over a decade, and they're still not ubiquitous. I don't know what will dominate after the smartphone, but most people don't want shit on their head all the time.

[@tashnifgaming85]

The more tech improves the worse privacy gets

[@timothyreynolds6255]

As a teacher with literally hundreds of students, I need/want AR glasses that show me student names, grade, classroom teacher name, health concerns.

[@FrankWichert-c4v]

If you want a fast man-machine interface you still need a keyboard. Speaking and hearing is just slower than reading and typing.

[@Mr.Coffee576]

I used to be the guy that followed up on every smartphone news since 2009. Witnessed the iPhone 4, iPad, the first Galaxy Note , android vs ios drama, the hype of “Phablets”, edge screens, touch ids, removal of headphone jack all that. Then out to the blue I just lost interest. It’s just the same product. There is nothing new anymore. It’s the same thing. I used to stay up late night to watch an Apple event. Now it took a week later to me find out iPhone 16 exists after its unveiling. It’s just another commodity now, like a fridge or tv.