A full orchestra on stage playing with no music stands sure would be make for a nice sight (assuming the glasses looked like regular old glasses -- (or maybe blues brothers shades)).
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#12Is there an opportunity to partner with (or sell to) one of the big digital sheet music vendors (like Musescore or Music Notes, etc)? I've never come upon a compelling personal use case for smart glasses, but as a pianist this could be it. I would HAPPILY purchase both glasses and a subscription from one of the big music vendors if this worked seamlessly and I could do things like embed a metronome or link it to my D…
This would make the most sense, since MuseScore is notoriously litigious about usage and redistribution of their library/MusicXMLs, so a collaboration would be necessary to get a usable music catalog for smart glasses
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#13Congrats! Great video write up also!
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#14Congrats! Great video write up also!
Thank you!
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#15A full orchestra on stage playing with no music stands sure would be make for a nice sight (assuming the glasses looked like regular old glasses -- (or maybe blues brothers shades)).
Agreed! These glasses do look very normal - only tell is that at a certain angle you can see the green of the screen, and the part near the ear is a bit bigger (but easy to conceal with hair)
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#17Instead of 30 pedals, give the conductor a butt-on.
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#18Is there an opportunity to partner with (or sell to) one of the big digital sheet music vendors (like Musescore or Music Notes, etc)? I've never come upon a compelling personal use case for smart glasses, but as a pianist this could be it. I would HAPPILY purchase both glasses and a subscription from one of the big music vendors if this worked seamlessly and I could do things like embed a metronome or link it to my D…
Just a quick plug: check out Soundslice. It's interactive sheet music with a ton of learning tools built in, including easy navigation, looping, tempo changing and transposition.
We've also got a scanning feature that does OCR for sheet music, to get music into our system. Plus there's a full-featured notation editor. A good overview is at https://www.soundslice.com/features/
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#19Very cool idea and demo.
The ability to adapt paper music would be useful. In some genres -- I play big-band jazz -- virtually no material is available in printed form, or it's in the composer's preferred format, which is typically PDF.
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#20This is such a great use case. I stand in front of my monitor with my guitar and have to scroll the sheet music. So that means stop playing. I often wander away from my computer and then come back if I forget how a section goes.
I'm using tabs not notes, but I'm assuming/hoping your solution will adapt quite easily.
I wonder if you could use a microphone to listen for the notes in order to get auto-scrolling. Because you know the general timing, you're not searching through the entire song (likely) but honing down on the exact point that person is at. An inobtrusive metronome might be nice to.
Congats! One of the best projects I've seen in a long time, and particularly such a good use case for the early stage of this hardware.