Get these glasses.
Cool technology. The display constantly blinking in your face while you are doing what it’s telling you to do seems like it’d be a pita. And it’ll suck if you scratch those. lol.
That’s pretty cool. I doubt in real life it would keep repeating over and over and they did that just to help people understand how the technology works.
I bet I could rebuild a transmission with instructions like that.
Must be fun going back to a predetermined position to look at the car and see what the next step is.
The idea is sound for maybe the 1st week or two on the job. Then I doubt any competent mechanics would waste a second of their warranty time.
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Must be fun going back to a predetermined position to look at the car and see what the next step is.
The idea is sound for maybe the 1st week or two on the job. Then I doubt any competent mechanics would waste a second of their warranty time.
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Yep, but you’d save a ton of time training people. Instead of having to take your master tech off a job and have him train some he could just say, “wear these, do what they say” and go back to work.
I could never see a mechanic using these for some reason. But it would go well as a replacement for Haynes Manuals for the consumer market. Depending on cost of course.
It makes me think: Well for once, they’ll know what they’re doing. But then it makes me realize the more important part: Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will use it.
edit Sorry, forgot to credit Murphy for that last part
+1
Although,
As soon as you idiot proof something, mother nature makes a better idiot. - ??
yeah but those glasses wont trouble shoot or diagnose a problem, or torque bolts down for you. good idea, but i cant seem them being put to use any time soon.
fuck that.
really, I mean wtf thats insulting
Its probably gonna cost like $20k if they actually release them.
just having it tell you what size socket size to use is pretty nice, but that is way over the top lol
Agreed.
As a “school” training aid, fine. For a pro to actually use those = counter productive compared to real life experience/knowledge.
its going to be like using GPS when driving. when you shut the GPS off, you have no idea how you got where you are and no way on how to get back.
when you rely on the glasses to tell you what to do, you wont remember it as well as if you looked it up and then did it cause you have to think more in the latter process solidifying what you actually did in your brain.
i could be totally wrong but thats what ive seen happen when folks use something like GPS to tell them where to go. i asked a co-worker how to get to a place right after he had been there and he said “i have no idea, i used my GPS”
brian
It seems more like demonstrating the technology. It can be used in lots of applications. To have a compact system capable of identifying the current state and provide analysis as to what to do next is pretty neat. It isn’t going to make anyone a master mechanic, but there are probably lots of applications where it can/will be useful in the future i’m sure.