This fall semester here in Osaka I just had the pleasure of doing something new, and university students might have thought it was cool 😎. For many years I have been giving presentations in class by iPad, and by computer at conferences. Recently I learned how to give presentations by iPhone, and it worked for a fun quiz on international marriage in Japan for my Bilingualism class.
Here are some scenes with captions from another encounter with technology, entering the Frames VR world last week with teachers by browser. It is a long story if you are interested, going back over 15 years to pioneering work. In a 2007 keynote address in a university auditorium in Nagoya, I simultaneously presented in a virtual world to avatars of participants in other countries.
Google is reportedly cancelling their AR project Iris. I REALLY HOPE Iris was their mixed reality ski goggle headset, and not the simpler glasses shown here demoing real time translation. https://youtu.be/lj0bFX9HXeE
I owned the Focals by North glasses, and I can't tell you how transformative that experience was. It was NOT any kind of real AR. It was a simple heads up display, with a UI like a smartwatch, but at eye level. It was amazing.
I truly believe we're skipping an INCREDIBLY important step trying to race to magic sci-fi AR. So many interactions with our technology would be wonderfully streamlined with a simple graphic or text at eye level.