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Value to vision-impaired users would increase with an SDK, https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/General-VR-MR-Developm...



I agree with you, but "could this be better" is a different question than "does this help people".

I'm sure everyone would welcome competing devices. Well, Meta and EssilorLuxottica are showing that a profitable market exists.


https://archive.is/L9jY6

> Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which oversees the product as well as its virtual- and augmented-reality goggles, reported losses of nearly $5 billion in the fourth quarter.


Reality Labs is much much bigger than this product. It's unreasonable to point to their aggregate losses here unless you have some indication that those losses are due to this product.


The second they make this and make it useful in any way, immediately the apps people create will lay bare exactly how bad of a privacy invasion they are, tons of bad press ensuing.

It's definitely not technical hurdles preventing them from making one.


Already done without the SDK, https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart...

Censorship and alignment (speech, LLMs, glasses, drones, ..) rarely stops negative scenarios, but it slows positive scenarios from existence and competition with negative scenarios.

They did partner with BMW, CMU and some universities, https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/


An engadget article is a different order of magnitude than MSM. Of course tech people have always known what they're really like.





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