I love cyberdeck projects. They remind me of how custom motorcycle builders influenced the manufacturers to where they are producing factory street fighters, cafe racers, bobbers, and baggers. That feedback loop hasn't closed between cyberdeck makers and OEMs yet, Framework laptops are pretty close to a modification platform waiting to happen.
HMDs are still way too clunky for everyday AR, and I think google glass and snapchat's AR glasses products haven't got traction because they're the AOL cdroms of their technology, but if there were commodity parts for a modification platform I could see it taking off and closing the cyberdeck to OEM loop.
It's like there is professional tech and consumer tech, and then a hacker tech is when it becomes surplus, cheap, and available. Examples like the clone i486 PC, the CB500 motorcycle, TB-303, of the 80s and 90s created entire subcultures that yielded generational innovations. Maybe current techs like that will be SDRs, machine learning libraries, adware data sets, etc.
HMDs are still way too clunky for everyday AR, and I think google glass and snapchat's AR glasses products haven't got traction because they're the AOL cdroms of their technology, but if there were commodity parts for a modification platform I could see it taking off and closing the cyberdeck to OEM loop.
It's like there is professional tech and consumer tech, and then a hacker tech is when it becomes surplus, cheap, and available. Examples like the clone i486 PC, the CB500 motorcycle, TB-303, of the 80s and 90s created entire subcultures that yielded generational innovations. Maybe current techs like that will be SDRs, machine learning libraries, adware data sets, etc.