Apple CEO Tim Cook Excited About AR Because of Appeal to Both Businesses and Consumers

Literally.. he says the same thing about AR every quarter. Who keeps asking him about it? We Know! ?

Such a fluffy pointless sound bite.

Literally.. he says the same thing about AR every quarter. Who keeps asking him about it? We Know! ?

I groaned when that question was brought up. I'm waiting for 2026 when the response might be decent.

I groaned when that question was brought up. I'm waiting for 2026 when the response might be decent.

I also groaned when the question was brought. I'm not waiting for 2026 as a major progress of AR. Heck look back to the 80's of Lawnmowerman and compare what you see in that move to what VR gives us today ... heck we having even grasped interactive chairs to go with the controllers and the VR glasses in real-life vs what the movie had/envisioned.

Whomever worked on Apple Campus 1 with the mothership app and the 3D aluminum display really did a great job. But practical applications without real visionary software and use case means it's still a pipe dream and minimal distraction.

AR is still waiting for its killer app that millions of people will use and benefit from.

Tim Cook wants to invent AR like Al Gore invented the internet. In reality, nobody cares unless maybe if it's hands free and doesn't block your view like HoloLens 2, Glass Enterprise Edition 2, etc.

We're currently living in the Netherlands, and I think about this every day. How nice would it be to have glasses that would translate signage from Dutch to English? It's incredibly awkward trying to use the real-time translation on Google Translate holding a phone.

AR is still waiting for its killer app that millions of people will use and benefit from.

The problem is that when that killer app shows up people with phones even a year old won’t have the correct hardware or a fast enough processor to run that app. How many years have iPhones technically had AR capability? How many practical, useful apps are there right now? The apps that exist now technically work, but are either slow, inaccurate, glitchy or are gimmicks (adding a dinosaur to live video for example) that are amusing a couple of times at most and then never opened again.

I honestly can’t think of an app that is just screaming that it needs AR capability. Not ‘can AR be added’ but that AR will make it better.
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It has nothing to do with the app. The problem is the hardware. How would AR work in the consumer space? Convince everyone to wear glasses? And simultaneously convince everyone that they don’t need to worry about being constantly recorded? Or is this an occasional cool thing to use when you hold up your iPhone, which I think apps like Yelp already had but it didn’t really take off. I don’t know, but Google failed at this as will Apple unless they’re really working on something we haven’t thought of.

I agree with your post but the number of good and profitable ideas that I haven’t thought of is depressingly large.

AR is still waiting for its killer app that millions of people will use and benefit from.

It has nothing to do with the app. The problem is the hardware. How would AR work in the consumer space? Convince everyone to wear glasses? And simultaneously convince everyone that they don’t need to worry about being constantly recorded? Or is this an occasional cool thing to use when you hold up your iPhone, which I think apps like Yelp already had but it didn’t really take off. I don’t know, but Google failed at this as will Apple unless they’re really working on something we haven’t thought of.

I have been using AR for several years in the Star Walk app. Before this, locating sky objects for observing in telescope or binoculars took time to learn, research and bring together several information sources. Having the locations of sky objects immediately in your hand was seen as the pipe dream. An unattainable science fiction utopia. People don't know what their phones can do today!

Tim placed his bet on AR a few years ago, and he just keeps doubling down.