[YouTube] has officially begun rolling out three-minute Shorts to all users
any vertical or square VODs up to three minutes long will now automatically count as Shorts, meaning they’ll appear on the Shorts tabs of creators’ channels and will pop up on the Shorts feed
The race to replace The Clock is on.
via TubeFilter
2025: rise of the smartglasses?
Halliday Glasses have boarded the smart spectacles hype train, featuring “proactive” AI assistance and a near-eye display that shows information directly in the user’s field of view.The display appears as a 3.5-inch screen in the upper-right corner of the user’s view with minimal obstructionThe near-eye display is supported on both prescription lenses and if no lens is used at all. The displayed information isn’t visible to other people and can be controlled using either voice commands, frame interface controls, or a ring that features a built-in trackpad.
The number of in-optics display announcements is accelerating.
Soliddd’s scientifically formulated and user-tested virtual reality smartglasses are lightweight and feel like normal eyeglasses. SolidddVision provides the first true vision correction—and, indeed, sight restoration for those living with vision loss due to macular degeneration.
The smartglasses use Soliddd’s unique and proprietary lens arrays, which resemble a fly’s eye, to project multiple separate images to the areas of the retina that are not damaged. This allows the brain to naturally construct stereopsis (the making of a 3D image in the brain) and a single full-field image with good acuity that feels like normal, in-focus sight.
We’ve already hit the point of wearable-tech-as-health-improvement-device with glasses.
Rory Sutherland with a truth bomb:
People don’t necessarily know what they want.
Economists certainly don’t know what’s good for people.
Marker research isn’t a reliable way to discover unmet or untapped needs. Because the unmet needs are often unthought and therefore unspoken.
Looking at people’s past behavior is naturally constraining because it only shows what people do under situation and choice frame X. Not what they might do under choice architecture Y.
All 3 of the means we use to predict the future in terms of human behavior are deeply incomplete and therefore what we need to do is hypothesize more and experiment more.
The customer is always right. They just don’t necessarily know what the question is.
Test & improve.
We’re about a week out from a potential TikTok ban taking effect in the US and it seems like there’s still a lot of fuzziness about how that actually gets implemented.
App stores will have to remove it.
But will ISPs have to block it?
Does the company turn off the computers and lock the doors?