Ok, I am gonna say it out loud: This is nice and all. Great hardware work for sure. But: This is not going to work commercially. Watch the twitter videos and you'll know why [1]. It's all nice and shiny, but it has no utility whatsoever. People will get bored after day 2. And then, 3-5 years from now Apple will come in with their iGlasses and everyone will absolutely love them. Because they will integrate them deeply…
It's not for sale, so I don't think the goal is for it to work commercially right now. This seems more like a devkit than anything else.
The cycle of "missed" opportunities. 1. Competitor A: "The new Spectacles are not for sale. They’re built for creators looking to push the limits of immersive AR experiences." 2. Competitor B: * actually sells the product * * time goes by * 3. Competitor B acquires 80%+ market share while other's "never saw it coming".
If anyone wants to, I'd highly encourage you to fill out the "Become a Creator" form with the idea of using the glasses to operate an "AR space" venue, like those VR spaces where people go with their family to play games. You could charge members of the public 20 bucks for 20 min of playing games that you make and you would be sold out for months because regular people don't have many chances to try AR without shelli…
If you run the numbers on trying to run an AR arcade, you'll find the cost of cleaning, sorting, handing out, putting away, and teaching clueless people to use the goggles for the first time are far more time, labor, and dollar expensive than you expect. It's surprisingly difficult to run the numbers in ways that make it even a remotely good business to open.
If Apple copies anything from us, I hope they copy this: The computer-generated voice we used in the Spectacles V4 out-of-box experience tutorial is a gender-neutral voice. We did this as the start of a journey of attempting to convince the software industry to stop making A.I. assistants be female so often. Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a w…
This is such a weird response to a technical criticism, do you have anything to say about anything the parent poster said?
Oh, I totally understand the parent poster's perspective and they might 100% be right. If I were a betting man I would bet on Apple; who wouldn't? Only time will tell; I wasn't trying to refute the parent poster in any way. Was just highlighting an aspect of Specs that I really believe in that isn't in the press and wanted to put this somewhere that someone from Apple might hopefully read it.
What would be any app for this? It's not immediately apparent why anyone would want this.
Sounds like a lack of imagination. Construction - Show size/length of objects, show if object is level, highlight location of needed tool. Navigation - Show arrow on top of uber/lyft, show directions. Show restaurant cleanliness score and rating. Food safety - Show how long food has been out of fridge Social - remind you of a persons name
It would make a cool ikea app to guide you to the right part and highlight where it goes
This is really cool. I would love to see something like this with an ability to pair with a watch or a phone via bluetooth so one could get realtime location of a user upon a consent. I truly believe such glasses can serve good cause in an elderly care / support space. For example, being able to show directions in realtime for public transport options, directions (bit like a windscreen hud in modern vehicles) would b…
Yes, these have a location API! (with consent). Like you said, they pair with the phone when available, and also have built-in GPS.
If Apple copies anything from us, I hope they copy this: The computer-generated voice we used in the Spectacles V4 out-of-box experience tutorial is a gender-neutral voice. We did this as the start of a journey of attempting to convince the software industry to stop making A.I. assistants be female so often. Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a w…
>> Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a women's role. is there any proof of this or does it just sound true therefore its true? Specifically theres two claims here that i don't see any data backing up: 1. Female voices of AI creates the idea that assistants jobs are a women's role. 2. Assistants jobs being perceived as a woman's role somehow make…
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. If it helps, the people reviewing these applications are different than the Yellow people, and are really nice. Also there are more of these glasses to go around than there are Yellow spots. In terms of process, Snap has during the past 12 months made a sustained and well-funded push for racial and gender equality, and that should help a lot to make nepotism impossible in the new p…
Well I'm glad the woke virtue signaling has been built into the price and doesn't cost extra. "The camera is, in fact, racist,.." -Snap engineer Bertrand Saint-Preux Seriously??? Also, I find female voices more soothing. My wife on the other hand prefers male voices in a Scottish accent with her digital assistants. She doesn't now associate male scots with just being an assistant. For crying out loud it's just a damn…
Bertrand is black and he's a really good guy who put his heart and soul into the inclusive camera project, of his own initiative, without anyone asking him to do it. What did he do to deserve your mockery?
If Apple copies anything from us, I hope they copy this: The computer-generated voice we used in the Spectacles V4 out-of-box experience tutorial is a gender-neutral voice. We did this as the start of a journey of attempting to convince the software industry to stop making A.I. assistants be female so often. Having female A.I. assistants perpetuates the gender wage gap by creating the idea that assistant jobs are a w…
iOS offers the choice between male and female assistant voices and has removed a default. https://www.theverge.com/22364180/how-to-change-siri-voice-i...
That's amazing!!! I didn't know they had implemented this now, thank you so much for sharing!
It says try it on in-app, I tried it on and they look like those UV shades for old ppl that blocks sun from the sides. No one in their right minds would wear them in public.
I’m looking for a way to send these people my money, so you’re wrong.
Edit: Just realized I’m 40 so probably qualify as old to most people, so that doesn’t necessarily prove you wrong.