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Re: Focals by North

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Post by zjacobi »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #25
pg_bot wrote: post #4

The thesis of this product seems to be that Google glass failed due to poor design. I think that's an idea worth exploring and the execution here does look promising, but I'll hold off on judgement until other people can review the device. Here are my immediate, unsolicited, uncollected thoughts: There are many issues that I worry about with this kind of device, but battery safety and battery life are most important…

I've read not too long ago that Google glass version 2.0, or enterprise edition, was actually having some decent success/traction among workers.

Here's the Wired article about it: https://www.wired.com/story/google-glass-2-is-here/

Seems to give a huge productivity boost.

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Post by tw1010 »

I guess I've fallen to the other side of the chasm (to use Geoffrey Moore terminology), because my initial reaction to this was disinterest and like it wasn't for me. Thank god for early adopters.

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Post by rebuilder »

baud147258 wrote: post #20
chasing wrote: post #11

They pose their models in such a way to hide it, but the temples of those glasses (where all the tech lives, presumably) are huge. Which feel like they'd both be distracting to wear and to look at someone else wearing. (Although this is certainly an improvement over the Google Glasses design.) I would believe that some people would like a little heads-up display in their glasses. Not everyone. But some people. But I…

Sometime at parties I wish for a HUD that would show me people's name and the last time I saw them. On the other hand I dislike wearing glasses at social events, since I don't really need them.

I really don't look forward to trying to politely explain why I don't like having my face uploaded into the facial recognition/person-tracking system that will involve.

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Post by zerof1l »

akavel wrote: post #27

Anyone has any leaks or something regarding what's the pixel resolution of the display? I'm curious if it would be theoretically possible to display vim in some 8x8 font on this...

They are using MSM8909w processor which support resolution of up to 640x480. Since there are two screens, I think it would be at most 320x480px per screen.

Re: Focals by North

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Post by pavel_lishin »

rebuilder wrote: post #35
baud147258 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometime at parties I wish for a HUD that would show me people's name and the last time I saw them. On the other hand I dislike wearing glasses at social events, since I don't really need them.

I really don't look forward to trying to politely explain why I don't like having my face uploaded into the facial recognition/person-tracking system that will involve.

I do look forward to our cyberpunk future where to "opt out" of certain systems, you have to paint a certain mark on your face, or put a little QRCode sticker on your cheek.

"Sorry, I'm only opted into Google Facemind and FacebookFace; I don't want to be indexed by Amazon Visage."

Re: Focals by North

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Post by pavel_lishin »

zerof1l wrote: post #33
lucvh wrote: post #13

Useful specs are here: http://www.bynorth.com/tech

They mention Qualcomm MSM8909w processor. https://www.qualcomm.com/products/msm8909w According to its specs it supports resolution of up to 640x480 at 60fps. Kinda sucks if you ask me.

Seems good enough for the kind of data they want to display; you're not going to be playing Battlefield on these.

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Post by jcelerier »

wlesieutre wrote: post #2

If the Thalmic Labs name doesn't ring a bell, they're the former makers of the Myo gesture control armband (which was just discontinued). By all customer accounts I've seen it was an expensive gadget that never worked reliably enough to be useful for anything, so hopefully they do better with glasses.

> By all customer accounts I've seen it was an expensive gadget that never worked reliably enough to be useful for anything, so hopefully they do better with glasses.

I've seen multiple very cool live performance from artists using Myo

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