Love or hate liquid glass, the paradigm shift from "UI chrome is a wrapper around app content" to "UI is overlayed on top of app content" seems like the future. It's well aligned with AR and better separates UI layout from content for different screen sizes.

I'm neutral on this first implementation (some good, some bad). But I think the approach will be picked up by essentially everyone. Good news for you, there's nothing saying the overlay UI model has to be transparent. Some will probably be opaque but still floating.

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hu3 a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don't buy it.

First, AR is currently aspirational at best. After decades of failures.

Second, overlaying translucid UI over content makes separation of UI from content worse, not better.

Windows Aero tried that 2 decades ago and, while it looked cool, they reverted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero

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chuckadams a day ago | parent [-]

VR is still aspirational, but we already have AR making baby steps into everything. Every time you see a QR code for the menu burned into a restaurant table, you're looking at a sort of AR: the phone sees it differently than you. Then there's games, but that seems to be largely a passing fad, like 3D TV.

I know, it barely qualifies as AR... but while I love watching the bleeding edge of tech, I'm glad overall that we're slow-rolling this kind of thing.

	▲	leptons a day ago \| parent [-]
		QR codes do not qualify as Augmented Reality at all. "QR" is a data encoding format. It does not augment reality in any way. The only tangential use of QR codes in AR is when a QR code is sometimes used as an anchor point, but the QR code isn't AR, it's merely an anchor point, and there are many other types of anchor points used for AR that are not QR codes. If you're pointing a phone at a QR code and see some 3D thing pop out of it, that also isn't QR being AR, that's QR encoding data and the phone doing whatever it wants with that data. It could just as easily be a logo causing the AR device to do the same thing, or really any other kind of marker the AR program recognizes. QR codes are just convenient as they encode various kinds of data, so the program that scans it can react to what data is encoded in the QR code.

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bigyabai a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> seems like the future

Please, please cite sources for this. Without context you are really just drawing conjecture here.

Apple certainly seems invested in the idea of an AR future. But users do not - ARkit integrations are few-and-far between, Pokemon Go is a dead fad and Vision Pro failed harder than almost any other contemporary Apple product. It seems less like Apple is skating to the puck, and more like they're begging someone to pass to them. But the rest of the industry seems content ignoring the AR industry to invest away from Apple into stocks like Nvidia. Simultaneously, Apple threw away their stake in consortiums like Khronos, signalling a lack of desire to engage in new software standards.

With how many roadblocks Apple is facing here, I have no idea how you'd conclude that forcing AR on their users is a preferred paradigm.

	▲	monocularvision a day ago \| parent [-]
		“seems” indicates conjecture