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Apple is going to have everyone wearing a passthrough AR visor by 2025.

I think the same. When they do AR I believe they’ll do it much better than anyone else. They’ll be some really cool feature that will make people flock to it, like apps on the iPhone.

I was hoping that will happen with the apple watch, but so far it just brings the notification spam to your wrist and does fitness/health monitoring if you care about that.

What will the AR glasses do, bring the notifications that I have turned off anyway in my face?

The notification thing really made my despise the Apple Watch, caused me way too much anxiety had to turn all those features off.

I'd wear a screenless Apple band with just the health sensors but I wont wear a notification distraction on my wrist again.

> caused me way too much anxiety had to turn all those features off

Good. You have seen the light. Now turn off those notifications on your phone too. Much improved quality of life.

My personal hypothesis is they're going to lean in to perceptual enhancement. Passthrough AR will allow them to basically apply arbitrary correction and filtering to your vision, so in conjunction with their expertise on photo processing and general AR tech I think the idea will be that wearing these will make everything around you just look and feel better.

Hey I have an idea. Get everyone to wear AR glasses that filter your vision. Then have thieves pay hackers to make them invisible to eye witnesses.

The holdouts who refuse to wear the glasses slowly meet with ... unfortunate accidents. One by one. Until there's no one left who sees the world as it is.

Agreed. I think that the Watch is part of that - get people used to the idea of wearables as luxury items, not dorky like Google Glasses. Then you get a design house to create the frames, use iPhone for computation and extend interactions to the watch.

I agree that we'll see some huge new product by 2025 - not sure if it's a visor or spectacles though.

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