As a car enthusiast, I can think of a good one, the Ford Nucleon.
During the 1950s and 1960s, there was considerable interest in nuclear power and its potential applications. This led to the idea of using nuclear energy to propel cars. The concept behind a nuclear car was to utilize a small nuclear reactor to generate steam, which would then power the vehicle’s engine.
Of course back in those days, this was extremely futurustic and some at the time thought this would be a game changer, but ultimately, the safety aspect was one of the biggest reasons why this idea was dropped, and I probably don’t have to explain why it may not have considered to be safe, I mean, it was using nuclear power, so even if the engineers tried to make it as safe as possible, IF something went wrong, it would have been catastrophic.
Ever since then, the interests in the automotive sector has shifted to Electric and Hydrogen.
Still, a very intriguing concept car and idea.
Outside cars, you have blimps, and I personally believe if we tried to make something like a hindenburg today with existing technology, we might have been a lot more successful than back then (as it goes way back to 1930s), there are still some blimps used occasionally, I also don’t believe those use hydrogen(?), but they are not the “game changer in air travel” it was once seen as, although we can’t rule out a comeback.
What about you guys?
Which is crazy because it’s the closest to an actually good AR headset we’ve seen.
Yeah for sure, now if we think about apple’s entry to that exact market…
It’s going to be a touch one and very risky for apple for sure, going to be fun to see how well that goes for apple.
I think Apple should do what Microsoft did and push VR/AR to professionals who can find a real use for it. Meta going after the consumer market immediately was a mistake for a whole lot of reasons, but mainly because they didn’t have a killer app.
PCs took off because of word processors and spreadsheets. These came from the professional world, and made computers more than toys. Until VR has a real world application on that level it won’t be more than a toy.
I think regardless of market, the main issue is cost, yes you can push it to businesses, but would they really make a costly purchase? I feel like consumer market would actually offer better long-term opportunity.
The thing we need is a good OS and we need it to be AR and not VR, staying connected with reality, bringing reality and technology together in-front of your eyes.
Apple AR is way too expensive, but I am not surprised about that coming from Apple, I wish they cut some more corners to get the price down, but I am sure there is a more affordable and attainable one coming down the line.
Finding use for it will be the hardest, because as of now, all I see AR doing is trying to do what computers or smartphones do just in a different way, and they haven’t been as successful in that as they have to be better if AR is really trying to get success here.