Reading that article reminding me of a television show called Person of Interest.
Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life
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#32Reminder: brought to you by the guy who once said "they trust me, dumb fucks."
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#33This, like Google Glass, is one of those ideas that has been popularised by science-fiction with the promise that it will make our lives better, but when you get down it's actual real world usage I don't see the benefit it provides. Sure, it _looks_ cool, but none of the examples shown in FB's promo video are actually meaningful: the red light example, the restaurant... The real world already has UI for that! Navigat…
Glass actually had a really good use case, but it's the one thing they explicitly called out in the terms of service as banned: Facial Recognition The killer app for Glass would have been the thing that put a little nametag over the head of the person you were looking at, provided you'd met them before. So that you could say "Hey Steve!" to your kid's classmate's dad that you'd met 3 times before and still couldn't r…
Well, if a social anxiety about asking a second time for someone's name is the only use case for a device, it's bound to fail.
I actually just say: Sorry, I forgot your name, what was it again? In most cases they forgot my name as well and are happy that I asked. Problem solved. Can I have my 500€s now?
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glass actually had a really good use case, but it's the one thing they explicitly called out in the terms of service as banned: Facial Recognition The killer app for Glass would have been the thing that put a little nametag over the head of the person you were looking at, provided you'd met them before. So that you could say "Hey Steve!" to your kid's classmate's dad that you'd met 3 times before and still couldn't r…
Well, if a social anxiety about asking a second time for someone's name is the only use case for a device, it's bound to fail. I actually just say: Sorry, I forgot your name, what was it again? In most cases they forgot my name as well and are happy that I asked. Problem solved. Can I have my 500€s now?
Using your mouth and ears to collect private data... Kind of radical. Do you have funding yet?
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#35Meanwhile Apple just puts Lidar on its phones and users love it.
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#36This is a hard pass for me. I deleted my Facebook 5 years ago and will never come back. They're a trash company with a trash product.
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#37I think the primary reason why I don't trust Facebook on this sort of project is that the marketing is only about the personal benefit - "If you wear these magic glasses then Facebook can augment your world with all of this useful information! Isn't that great!" That's Facebook selling the idea to people. They're telling people relatively trivial but fun use cases. Maybe that would make some people buy. However, at n…
They don't have any plan. Its like asking ants what their plan is.
They have stumbled upon scale, so like the unimaginative mindless dolts they are, everything is done at scale.
What the plan is, is just some post facto day to day reactive narrative to whatever that scale produces.
One day it produces a colony next to a sugar factory that keeps everyone happy and another day it opens a giant sink hole in middle of town.
They wheel out Zuck to apologize or take credit as the case maybe.
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#38Re: Facebook’s Project Aria Is Google Maps – For Your Entire Life
#39This, like Google Glass, is one of those ideas that has been popularised by science-fiction with the promise that it will make our lives better, but when you get down it's actual real world usage I don't see the benefit it provides. Sure, it _looks_ cool, but none of the examples shown in FB's promo video are actually meaningful: the red light example, the restaurant... The real world already has UI for that! Navigat…
Glass actually had a really good use case, but it's the one thing they explicitly called out in the terms of service as banned: Facial Recognition The killer app for Glass would have been the thing that put a little nametag over the head of the person you were looking at, provided you'd met them before. So that you could say "Hey Steve!" to your kid's classmate's dad that you'd met 3 times before and still couldn't r…
Glass put a tiny display in the upper corner of your vision; it can't put a nametag on top of someone's head.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Glass actually had a really good use case, but it's the one thing they explicitly called out in the terms of service as banned: Facial Recognition The killer app for Glass would have been the thing that put a little nametag over the head of the person you were looking at, provided you'd met them before. So that you could say "Hey Steve!" to your kid's classmate's dad that you'd met 3 times before and still couldn't r…
Glass put a tiny display in the upper corner of your vision; it can't put a nametag on top of someone's head.
It can’t yet, but the goal is almost certainly to move past that restriction.
Besides, exactly the same functionality can be achieved by putting the name in the tiny display.