﻿So it seems that Apple will soon be
releasing their digital glasses in the relatively near future.
Now, this can go one of three ways.
One,
two or three
know Apple as we do,
this could possibly do for glasses
and visual aid, what the iPhone did for the brick phone.
Let's unpack this.
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Let's talk about Apple glass.
So the rumor mill has started to lift the lid on apple glass,
a digital pair of glasses that have been long in the works and rumored to be
available sometime next year in prescription and nonprescription forms.
So this is not a tech channel
but when Apple starts to talk about glasses, I listen.
We know that Apple has the infrastructure, the means and the capability to be able
to make apple glass work where other rivals have simply failed.
So we know that Apple is investing heavily in health care with this health app
and giving developers access to its health kit and with a huge success of its
wearable Apple Watch and also iPods, it makes logical sense that Apple glass is
going to be next in line for the Apple treatment.
So here's just five reasons why I think
Apple glass is going to usher in a new revolution in glasses and vision aid.
So, number one, apple glass will look good.
Now, let's face it.
One of the reasons Google glass failed before even left the hurdles was simply
because the way it looked, how many of us could envisage ourselves
on a day to day basis walking around with eye wear that made us look like
robots, that early indications are that Apple glass won't have this problem.
It's going to solve this issue because it's going to look good.
When I mean, look good. I mean, look normal.
And let's face it,
if we have to wear glasses, we just want them to look as normal as possible.
I know that as an optometrist glasses
wearers for in two camps, those that love glasses and think of them
as a fashion accessory and those that just want be seen dead in a pair of glasses.
And of course,
when Apple gets into a particular market, it wants to dominate the market and it
wants to sell high volumes of their premium products.
And that's never going to happen
with a product that just doesn't look good on people's face and a product that's not
going to make people want to make it a regular part of their day to day life.
And that's critical when we start to talk
about the functionality of Apple glass and being able to use it
and integrate it seamlessly into your day to day life.
Number 2, Apple is heavily invested in LiDAR technology.
And if you already have the latest iPad,
then you probably already know that LiDAR technology is available in those
devices. And although still a rumor at this stage.
It's reasonable, I think
to assume that LiDAR technology will be available in the new Apple glass.
And this is critically important and possibly one of the main reasons why
Apple wants to move to LiDAR technology in the first place.
And the benefit of this technology for Apple glass may well be potentially
the fact that it can scan over a further distance.
So you can potentially step into a room and very quickly the technology be able
to scan the room so I can then place where all the objects in the room are.
And there's lots of different ways
that this can be applied to a vision and visual aids to be able to make things
easier for people to navigate the world that they're in, and particularly just
to quickly scan the dimensions of objects in the room and to be able to build
a detailed profile of everything in that room.
So the applications that this can be used for, you know, are potentially endless
and we'll have to wait to see exactly how it all unravels and how it unfolds.
Number 3, Apple has already been building a health care empire.
And we know that Apple has been investing heavily in its health App and also
in Apple watch and the health aspects of that,
so it's natural to assume that apple glass will be no different or will just be
a natural progression from what it already has in the ecosystem.
To think about how this health information
could be used, then it may be that, for example, if you are a vulnerable
individual with low vision problems, then the information gathered about your
common environment that you spend a lot of time in could be relayed as part
of your general health information to your eye care professionals or to your doctor.
And it can be used to kind of form
a better assessment to help you live more independently in your own home.
So that can be certainly be one
application that then can be further developed with time. Number 4, the visual
aid possibility of this device is a real one.
So I foresee potentially a situation where
Apple glass ends up being a device that many people rely on to be able
to live independently, to be able to navigate independently.
And it may even possibly partially replace a guide dog,
for example, for people who need to be mobile independent.
So we know, for example, that there's a real shortage of guide dogs
for people who are blind or partially sighted.
And it may well be that in the interim,
while they're waiting for guard dogs to be trained because it takes several years.
To train a guard dog, then a device like Apple glass may well be
able to perform a valuable role in helping people to remain independent in their own
home or even getting out and about because of the ability to be able to kind of scan
the environment that you're in and be able to relay a enhanced and augmented image
to people who have perhaps no vision, but still a reasonable functional amount
of vision that they can see high contrast or just an image
that shows up on the display of their glasses,
as well as that many people with low vision problems have visual aids at home
to help them to live independently and do specific visual tasks.
Now, they can possibly be a situation where Apple glass is able to replace
some of these functions and make it easy for people to do some of these tasks
that a traditional visual aid, which may not be a digital aid, normally does.
An example of how Apple glass may be applied as a visual aid in a home may
include a reading tasks or being able to navigate the home better
by creating high contrast edges for steps and boundaries within the home.
And number 5, you may well find Apple
glass technology or glasses themselves appearing at your local optometrists.
Now, much like when the iPhone first launched, there was only one or two
carriers that were able to supply you with a SIM card for your iPhone.
Now, when Apple glass launches,
most likely they will provide prescription glasses in house or
through a deal with a huge lens, companies such as SLAW that have global reach.
And it may be that with time we may see kind of channels extended with more select
stores that are able to provide you with prescription Apple glass frames.
As far as glasses are concerned, it's also important to remember
that glasses that have a prescription lens in them are classed as a medical device.
But if they don't have a prescription lens in them, then they're not.
Now, it's not necessarily clear at the moment what benefit this might be
to Apple, but there may well be a benefit that they can use and utilize within their
health ecosystem of having that status as a medical device.
Now, at the end of the day,
if this was to happen and we start to see more places supplying prescription
Apple glass products, then Apple glass inevitably moves
and transitions from being more of a high tech gadget to being, you know,
an everyday fabric of the average person's life
and that ultimately is, you know, I suppose what Apple is aiming for,
to be able to make Apple glass as well as other wearables are part of our everyday
life and essentially become indispensable to us.
Now, that's just a quick look at some
of the potential that there may be from a vision point of view with Apple glass.
And I for one, will certainly be keeping an eye on what's happening
with the progression of Apple glass, its development, and as the rumors kind
of progress and we see the imminent launch of the product.
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of my favorite tech channels that are talking about Apple glass right now.
So you can check that out
if you want to. Leave me a comment
in the comments section below, will you be picking up a pair of Apple
glass or do you just think it's going to be the next Snapchat glasses?
Let me know in the comments section below and until the next video,
I look forward to seeing you then. Take care.