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Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by orangepanda »

noja wrote: post #31
upwardbound wrote: post #18

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This page has several videos of potential applications: https://www.spectacles.com/creators Deep links: Fitness: https://youtu.be/trd2LT8-G3Y Travel: https://youtu.be/bzTfMoyBdlM Learning dance moves: https://storage.googleapis.com/spectacles-v3/NzVlNzU3OWQtY2U... 3D paint: https://storage.googleapis.com/spectacles-v3/NzVlNzU3OWQtY2U...

Interesting how all these example videos are outside, but I can't see that really happening: outside are other people to bump into, surfaces to pay attention to, hazards. I don't want to learn to dance while standing distracted next to the edge of a cliff.

Good that you can still see the edge of a cliff then, no?

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by upwardbound »

viccuad wrote: post #50
upwardbound wrote: post #14

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Fwiw at least this way if your idea gets approved you don't have to pay for the glasses -- much more fair to people entering SW development from impoverished backgrounds. To apply there's a form at the bottom of the page.

you give them your idea and control over it, basically. What could go wrong.

Your idea is your personal intellectual property. You can even patent it if you want. The only reason for having a form at all is to give the limited number of units to the people who will really put their heart into making something incredible.

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by moralestapia »

upwardbound wrote: post #52
viccuad wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you give them your idea and control over it, basically. What could go wrong.

Your idea is your personal intellectual property. You can even patent it if you want. The only reason for having a form at all is to give the limited number of units to the people who will really put their heart into making something incredible.

>You can even patent it if you want.

No. You cannot patent something that has been publicly disclosed.

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by langitbiru »

Judgmentality wrote: post #16
upwardbound wrote: post #13

From the website: 26.3 degree diagonal field of view (stereo). Display brightness up to 2,000 nits. I worked on these but am not allowed to say anything other than citing public sources.

Can you say anything about potential applications? What do you think will be the killer app for this?

Conversation helper. Imagine you talk to a person. It can give you a list of ice breakers to open up the conversation based on the person's appearance and surroundings.

It can alert you whether the person is not comfortable or very attracted to you. Some people like to miss these subtle cues.

You can combine this AR technology with Deep Learning technology such as Pose Tracker.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/next-generation-pose-det...

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by upwardbound »

moralestapia wrote: post #53
upwardbound wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your idea is your personal intellectual property. You can even patent it if you want. The only reason for having a form at all is to give the limited number of units to the people who will really put their heart into making something incredible.

>You can even patent it if you want. No. You cannot patent something that has been publicly disclosed.

Which country are you referring to?

In the US you have 1 year.

https://www.patenttrademarkblog.com/inventor-grace-period-la....

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by upwardbound »

langitbiru wrote: post #54
Judgmentality wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you say anything about potential applications? What do you think will be the killer app for this?

Conversation helper. Imagine you talk to a person. It can give you a list of ice breakers to open up the conversation based on the person's appearance and surroundings. It can alert you whether the person is not comfortable or very attracted to you. Some people like to miss these subtle cues. You can combine this AR technology with Deep Learning technology such as Pose Tracker. https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/nex…

Although I can only speak for myself and not for Snap, I would discourage these ideas. I think these ideas are a violation of the privacy rights of the person you are looking at. If I were on the Lens review team I would reject these lenses.

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by jayd16 »

swiley wrote: post #36
Judgmentality wrote: post #16

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Can you say anything about potential applications? What do you think will be the killer app for this?

being able to position X11 (or wayland, I don't care really) windows in space and not have to deal with monitors would sell them for me.

You can do this on some of the VR and AR headsets already. The resolution is just almost but not quite good enough. Its getting there though.

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by upwardbound »

jayd16 wrote: post #32

So is this streaming from your phone? No technical specs on compute are listed as far as I can tell.

The compute is built-in. I'm not sure if we've published performance specs but if you want you could try to contact one of the creators who has them and get them to run some benchmarks. For small devices like this one, one of the biggest challenges is thermal management, so the performance measured for short experiences will likely differ from that which can be sustained over a longer time. (Just due to the nature of heat transfer - less mass means less heat storage capacity, and less surface area means less cooling)

Re: New Snap Spectacles Feature Augmented Reality Display

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Post by moralestapia »

upwardbound wrote: post #55
moralestapia wrote: post #53

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>You can even patent it if you want. No. You cannot patent something that has been publicly disclosed.

Which country are you referring to? In the US you have 1 year. https://www.patenttrademarkblog.com/inventor-grace-period-la... .

I didn't knew about that, thanks. In Europe you don't have such thing, so you end up w/ a mountain of NDAs (or just don't care and cross your fingers).
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