David Pierce: The dream here is to basically give people the Rayban Wayfare but with tech. Google came out with this product called Google Glass which was essentially a pair of lensless glasses. But then people started wearing these things in public and they were a camera, recording people who didn't want to be recorded. And so it became this like new but promising technology mixed with like total cultural disaster.
Apple’s launch of a new mixed reality headset shows that, for Apple, the metaverse isn’t dead. The Verge’s David Pierce explains.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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