👓 Avraham Raskin’s Post

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Right. We're continuing on with the upper watch concept or the other smartwatch concept, the AI watch concept of the Rabbit R1. And like I like I mentioned, I just want to give a brief kind of disclaimer. This is not about I'm not getting obsessed with the Rabbit one because I believe it's the future. Let me just I I'm interested in about it and I think these. These brainstorms are coming from the fact that it's it's part of a new generation of computational devices, wearable devices, that are realizing that the way that we are going to be controlling the computer of the future is going to be very different. I'm so tempted to start talking about the apple. Vision Pro because all my there's so much to talk about and actually I watched a video from Casey Neistat today. I'm very, very quickly, I really, really want to respond to him. Maybe this video, there'll be a bit of a response and I might respond to his things, but he's like, I finally got he's like after hours of using it, I finally clicked on this is the future of the computer. And then he made a comment of like, this is beyond AR and VR. This is where people really still do not understand what the power of R is and the fact that. The Vision Pro is trying to be a R It's not AR, it's pseudo AR. It is VR with pass through. The power is augmented reality and Casey, If you do watch this video, and if you do get into a minute and 23 seconds of this video, what you started feeling was augmented reality. It's not beyond AR and VR, it's beyond VR. You realize that you've touched with VR in entertainment and immersive, and there's a place for that. But what you touched upon having screens around you, which is, again, the wrong paradigm. But what you did touch upon was the beginning. Glimpses into what augmented reality can be. Now I'm happy to call out spatial reality, and I'm happy to realise that that's part of the spectrum. I'm happy to help to find that. But don't get mistaken, that what you. What you discovered was beyond VR, right? You're you're very used to VR and I think that all the marketing hype has confused so many people in what AR is. Get rid of mixed reality. Get rid of extended reality. It's augmented reality. It's, you can say the entire the entire spectrum, even including virtual reality, can be called spatial computing. But that whole spectrum from base reality to all virtual reality is called augmented reality. The overlying thing. Maybe that's what they tried with extended reality and mixed reality got just people so confused. Thanks Microsoft for that. They were just trying to differentiate from Google. When they Google Glass, they try to call themselves admitted reality. They're not. They're heads up display, I hope. That I'm able to just. It's just a small little tick. That's like every time people use mixed reality, and extended reality is always like, no. And now that special computers come in and people are like, oh, this is beyond augmented reality again, it's like, no, it's beyond virtual reality. It's augmented reality is what you're starting to figure what you're starting to use And again, you're not using augmented reality. You're actually using pseudo augmented reality. But rant over Casey, that was just for you. I don't know if I'm gonna make it specific video, but as more and more people use this and more more people just talk about this, I think I'm going to have more feedback. But coming back to the Rabbit 1 Apple Watch that I watch as it's called, I I want to be able to link the Behance project and the Instagram carousel. I think it was very cute. It was. It was. The aesthetics were still very toyish like and it and encapsulated a little bit of that retro kind of. Toy vibe I I'm happy with the screen. It's better. I think it's a better use case, the screen than what the actual original item was in the fact that I think a screen, when you get to conversational AI, needs to be kind of an afterthought. But yes, it's important. And when I say afterthought, please don't get me wrong. Afterthought. I mean like in the future, the proper screen is augmented reality glasses. It's proper augmented reality. But right now conversational AI I think has to grow up. Itself, and the reason why I put, why I started creating 8 and the reason why I think some of these devices are interesting is that I think that proper AR still has a little bit of way to go. It's still got a lot of challenges. And now that AI Apple has come into the field, hopefully we're going to get a lot more exciting. A lot more investing and a lot more investments and a lot more designs are going to start bringing us back towards proper augmented reality and not this holographic unlimited screens and this, this floating iPad, if you will. And I'm going to do a lot more videos about that because I think it's very important. That people grasp that. Even if Apple, I'm going to give people the benefit of doubt and say that they just did it as a stepping stone, right? They they really see where our rented reality is going to be. And their best use case was of iPad. I still don't get it. Like for example when you create the iPad, the reason why the iPad was so. The reason why that's like that actually survived and the other attempts at tablets by like Microsoft didn't is Microsoft try to Chuck in a desktop operating system into a touch screen or a stylus and when you change your input, when you change the way that you control it, you have to change your output and. Sorry, Apple understands this with. As you can see with our iPad, they understand this where they're they're really, really not trying to. If you use a laptop and an iPad together and they're fundamentally different, they get that. But for some reason I was looking at a screen today and I was like, OK, you see like a like a like, let's say the settings right floating in front of you and you got a bunch of toggles. And I'm just looking at and going, why is there a toggle and why are there like 8 of them the way that you control the device, right? Radical gesture is what it was called when I built it, when Meta built it back in the day. 12 years ago. They've definitely refined it right. And so you could get precise, but when I'm I'm toggling things, let's say I have a bunch of things to untangle or turn on and off in an iPad, when you have the tactile feedback, that would take you one or two seconds. But having that floating in front of you, where you're looking at it and doing gestures like this, yes, it's important, but like. Toggle eight of them in a row that you have to look at one toggle, look at the next toggle. That's going to take forever. Like, if we're really looking at this as a device that we're going to use in the same way that you reuse an iPad or an A smartphone, the toggle is not the right method, especially when you've got a list of settings. Like I think that there's a bit of a rush job over here and there's something that just doesn't sit well with me. I look at other apps and I see how they're using proper scanning that they're using proper lighter and they're using great segmentation and and they're. Understanding the room and some of the apps are really using that well, Formula F1 Racing did a great job. The visuals, the graphics is beautiful, the way it's on the table. But the iPad at the floating iPad? The multiple screens in front of you? It seems really hacked and and and something just doesn't sit right with me that Apple could ship a product and do something like that. I might be completely wrong and Apple might have a great master vision, but I think that this is like Apples version of what? Like Windows. What Microsoft did when they tried to bring this tablet and build a stylus and then horribly failed. Now I don't. I hope the Apple Vision Pro does not fail. And I hope it only goes but something like that just it seems rushed to me and it seems like it's they're pushing and getting people excited about the wrong thing. It's they're getting people excited about evolutions rather than revolutions. And they're talking about the era of spatial computing is there and there's a lot of computer in that that is allowing that and I agree with that to a level, but there's a big part of it that just seems like they've just. Rushed the thought of what a new operating system what a new paradigm system is supposed to be and maybe benefit the doubt is that the technology just wasn't there and they needed to release something benefit of the doubt we're gonna go into this more. But coming back to the rabbit one again let's remember that I watch has a lot less screen has a lot less real estate and it might be not technologically feasible to fit everything that the rabbit Iowa needed into an into a watch but the what the the screen. I liked the push to talk. It's great because in in one hand it's summons kind of like an assistant. And it's a big bulky thing that you have to pull out in addition to a phone is so much less of A use case than actually saying ohh, we're actually developing a watch, a smartwatch, and this could get much better, much better than other Apple Watches. But huge part number one, very big thing. When I use, when I speak to Siri, when I use sorry, speak to my agents using the new versions of you know large language models. I speak for a while so push to talk and holding it down. Not a great use case for me. I need something that can listen for 5-10 minutes, even an hour straight. I need something to always available. So push to talk, Great beginning but I'm looking at something that's always available right? Which is where a. #2 It reminds me of the action button in the Apple Watches and also of kind of the action button in the new iPhone and the rumors that Apple will release a capture button, which seems like it would actually do very good over here. And and this is kind of what I want to just summarize this. There's so much more than I want to talk about, but what I want to summarize it is saying that this could very well be built in to apples next one, where the action button becomes dedicated for Siri 2.0 or Siri 10.0 and the capture button is for videos. Everything like that or the capture button becomes, you know, a dedicated thing for your system. And on the smart watch, the action button, I think we're gonna have a lot more focus on that. But again, I want to be able to speak to that continuously, not just push to talk. There's so much more to share. I'm going to end off today. I'll see you guys in the future.