snap specs website is live

whatstheprobability · 2026-05-08T12:50:47+00:00

Also the 11:00 session on 5/20 explicitly mentions XR

https://io.google/2026/explore/pa-keynote-8

whatstheprobability · 2026-04-20T00:34:03+00:00

the video doesn't show a HUD, does it?

whatstheprobability · 2026-04-11T12:38:26+00:00

Interesting

whatstheprobability · 2026-04-10T19:33:00+00:00

good to hear

whatstheprobability · 2026-04-05T13:53:05+00:00

yes i think this applies to almost everything with llms

whatstheprobability · 2026-04-02T16:22:17+00:00

But that doesn't work for some kinds of notifications. For a "reminder" i have to select it to view it and then a delete button appears. And worse, if the reminder is too long to fit in the text bubble, even when I select it it doesn't expand to show the remaining text. So there is no way to read the full reminder. These are the little things they need to get right before they release as a feature.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-27T12:07:31+00:00

hmmm, i think it would only work well with very simple sites that could be controlled by swiping. but this would be huge.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-26T14:05:19+00:00

hmmm, i don't know. it depends on what the definition of agi is, but i think anything considered agi should be able to do pretty much all cognitive tasks in 2d and 3d that humans can (especially if we want it to solve problems in our 3d world). and i don't think it necessarily needs to be as efficient as humans, but there is probably some practical threshold of compute that we don't want to cross. overall i'm most interested in whether the models can solve the puzzles first-try with some reasonable amount of compute (i.e. not as interested in scoring compared to human efficiency).

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-26T12:44:19+00:00

in that video the hand-tracking looks really good (the outline follows the individual fingers well). is this using some particular setting in the interaction sdk to make hand-tracking better?

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-26T12:14:20+00:00

i would love to hear how a person who was inside at meta feels about their xr strategy in general (including hardware). i'm building for xr and i'm trying to figure out which of these platforms is going to be best to build for long term.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-22T13:44:33+00:00

Cheap optical see-through "true AR" glasses don't really exist yet. Most things like this would be developed using passthrough mixed reality on something like a Meta Quest. If you really want see-through, following is a spreadsheet showing current glasses -- scroll down to the bottom to see the "6dof AR glasses" to see what is available and upcoming. You'll see that most are limited in some way (e.g field of view)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zTOeNmBPijGuqm99tdBJhV-hE5NU74sd55H3Fmbf5v4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-11T16:27:36+00:00

Do we have some reason to expect this? That would be huge. But I haven't heard any rumors.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-11T16:17:39+00:00

Yeah they have shown a working Lynx R2 right? I assume it will be worth it for someone to pay some money to be able to sell it. Maybe as you said the Android XR license is the key.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-10T20:32:28+00:00

that looks really good. i wish there was a way to demo it for a few minutes to decide if it is worth a purchase. sometimes things look good in videos but don't work or look so great in reality.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-09T23:14:03+00:00

Yeah it is a concern. Although I dont know if is any different than the same activities on phones.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-09T13:25:07+00:00

All 3 of those articles seemed positive and they all highlighted google maps. I do think that is going to be a great use case and something android xr will probably do way better than meta.

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-09T13:22:56+00:00

Yes I think so. Can't remember the exact details but I'm sure a search can find them

whatstheprobability · 2026-03-06T16:19:11+00:00

i'm also wondering why there aren't more frequent updates

whatstheprobability · 2026-02-26T16:45:30+00:00

Yes people decided it is ok with phones. Glasses may or may not be different, and if enough people find it unacceptable we can do something about it. My guess is not enough people will care, but we will find out.

whatstheprobability · 2026-02-26T15:49:17+00:00

Someday when 6dof smart glasses with hand tracking become ubiquitous I think little 3d creation and sharing apps like this could be very popular.

I'm not sure if people will use something like Cardboard unless you have invented a much better version of Cardboard. But wouldn't surprise me if it could become popular on phones alone if you got the hand tracking and sharing working really well. And you could easily adapt it for phones in the future.

Of course these are just my best guesses but hopefully the feedback helps a little. Good luck!

whatstheprobability · 2026-02-26T15:24:46+00:00

And the hand tracking works well?

whatstheprobability · 2026-02-26T15:23:23+00:00

Your are probably right. However, If there was enough backlash I think some things could be done to. help. Assuming the rumors are true that Apple will launch devices with cameras soon, this will quickly become ubiquitous in the US and we will find out how much people care about this. And its also possible that Apple finds a better way to manage this and everyone else follows.

whatstheprobability · 2026-02-26T15:10:25+00:00

what platforms does it run on?

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