Robert Scoble predicts wearable AR glasses within a year and major mixed reality advances over five years. He contrasts Microsoft HoloLens with VR headsets like HTC Vive, and describes practical uses like AR menus and navigation overlays.
Here with Robert Scoville at Scobyzer just announcing this week the new formation of his new company, the Transformation Group. I've known Robert for over, over 12 years now. Influencer, futuristic. You've been out and about with the virtual reality, augmented reality. You're wearing the products, you've been all over the world. You just had mobile world Congress been following you. You are the canary in the coal mine poking out all the new technology.
Well, the next five years you're going to see some mind blowing things. In fact, just the next year I predict that this thing is going to turn into a three ounce pair of glasses that's going to put virtual stuff on top of the world. So think about coming back to south by Southwest next year. You're wearing a couple pairs of glasses and you are going to see blue lines on the floor taking you to your next meeting or TV screens up here so I can watch the cube while I walk around the streets here. It's going to be a lot of crazy stuff.
So we've been on our opening segment, we talked about it, we just had a segment on social good around volunteering. But what the theme is coming out is this counterculture where there's now the humanization aspect they call the consumerization of it in the past. But in the global world the human involvement now has these immersion experiences with technology and now it's colliding with impacting lives.
Well, absolutely true. You know this is a Microsoft Hololens first of all. And Hololens puts virtual stuff on top of the real world. But at home I have an HTC Vive and I have an Oculus Rift for VR. And VR is that immersive media? This is augmented reality or what we call mixed reality where the images are put on top of the world so I can see something pop off of you. In fact, last year at South By I met a guy who started a company called ifluence. He showed me a pair of glasses and you look at a bottle like this and a little menu pops off the side of the bottle, tells you how much it is, tells you what's in the bottle and lets you buy new versions of this bottle like you know, a case of it and have it shipped to my house all with my eyes. That's coming out from Google Next year. Sam.
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