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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

AR glasses could be great - I've had a couple dev pairs and there's real potential to the tech. But they all suffered from a total lack of developer support, which was a real problem given they were banking on outside devs to fill out their app stores. The snap glasses here seem like they're going to have the same problems as the apple vision and microsoft's hololens (which was SO GOOD why the FUCK did they never release it?? Fucking M$...): the initial userbase will be tiny due to the price, thus there's going to be few hobby devs who can afford to buy in and there will be no incentive for the professional devs to invest in developing such a tiny potential market that relies entirely on a single proprietary piece of hardware.

What we need is for there to be enough standardization that we can port apps between hardware so all your time invested in development can't be tossed into the bin of history at the whim of Snapchat & it's shareholders.

this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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