{"id":6930,"date":"2021-09-16T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2021-09-16T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:58:58","slug":"smart-glasses-the-future-of-accessible-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/16\/smart-glasses-the-future-of-accessible-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart glasses: the future of accessible AR?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We know that augmented reality has its place in education. However, I&#8217;ve always felt like it was a concept that was still not within reach &#8211; the technology is too expensive and is changing too rapidly to keep up. Though the concept of a technology like smart glasses, which can be used to create an AR environment,\u00a0 is not new, it was recently announced that Facebook was marketing its own version of the smart glasses: RayBan Stories. They are a version of smart glasses that look sleek and fly under the radar in terms of looking like you&#8217;re wearing a gadget on your face. This gives me the inclination that this type of technology will soon become more accessible to the general population. Like tablets or smartwatches were once gadgets only owned by those who could spend a thousand dollars on a device, they are now extremely common to have. I think the same will happen with smart glasses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook unveils its first smart glasses\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rkpFqbpa0Zk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, Facebook&#8217;s glasses can be used as a camera, to connect to social media, or listen to music or podcasts, but as expressed by Mark Zuckerburg, the future of the glasses is heading towards AR. As stated by Alex Hern from the Guardian, &#8220;Facebook is open about the goal of its Reality Labs division: it wants to build true \u201caugmented reality\u201d \u2013 AR \u2013 glasses, fulfilling the science-fiction dream of slipping on a pair of glasses that look indistinguishable from a normal pair, and having access to a whole computing universe in front of your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechScape: How smart are Facebook\u2019s Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses?. Alex Hern. The Guardian. Retrieved from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/15\/techscape-smart-glasses-facebook\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/15\/techscape-smart-glasses-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that augmented reality has its place in education. However, I&#8217;ve always felt like it was a concept that was still not within reach&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/09\/16\/smart-glasses-the-future-of-accessible-ar\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart glasses: the future of accessible AR?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":65983,"featured_media":6937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}