I've looked around their website and the links people have commented here, but I've yet to see a video or image of the device actually working. I know it's hard to demo AR devices, but a simple video of a phone camera pointing through the device to show that there is actually content displaying would add much more credibility. Especially for $350 I need to see some sort of product demonstration.
Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
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#42Disorienting to see "open source" and "patented" on the same page.
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#43Disorienting to see "open source" and "patented" on the same page.
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#45I would hope they include some basic apparel to wear the device. should one wear it as a pirate's eye patch?
Looks like it has a clip to attach to the front of a pair of glasses. Obviously suboptimal, really needs to be integrated into some old-timey welding goggles for the steampunk vibe. At $349 it’s almost in the range where I’d buy it to play around with but I suspect it’d end up in a drawer like a bunch of other things that looked cool but I never got around to hacking on. Once the technology gets good enough where the…
I could combine it with the $200+ Twiddler keyboard that's been sitting in the drawer for 5 years, and maybe I'd be on to something!
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#46I've looked around their website and the links people have commented here, but I've yet to see a video or image of the device actually working. I know it's hard to demo AR devices, but a simple video of a phone camera pointing through the device to show that there is actually content displaying would add much more credibility. Especially for $350 I need to see some sort of product demonstration.
It's not much, but https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS. They're not exactly helping their credibility with claims of 16x superZoom from a 720p camera.
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#47As someone with only 1 eye, this is quite suited to me! I am actually sad that the previous crop of "low cost, slim, not earth shattering" AR glasses all died out. A camera built into one stem and some simple text displayed for one eye would suffice for a ton of use cases.
A killer app for me would be floating name tags above people's heads, but I imagine that would require better HW than what is available here.
I'd love to see what this looks like actually installed on glasses, in different configurations.
Some simple AR use cases that I'd like to see: ]
* Turn by turn directions
* Incoming high priority notifications
* Weather alerts
* Front door notifications
* Upcoming meetings
* Interior building navigation
* Shopping Lists (hard to do the interactions on this)
The issue here is none of these are a killer feature, so I wouldn't be willing to pay more than a small premium to have them added on top of what I normally pay for frames, but since I already am paying $300-$500 for frames (before insurance), if someone offers the above for another $100 or $150, sure why not.
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#48I've looked around their website and the links people have commented here, but I've yet to see a video or image of the device actually working. I know it's hard to demo AR devices, but a simple video of a phone camera pointing through the device to show that there is actually content displaying would add much more credibility. Especially for $350 I need to see some sort of product demonstration.
It looks like the website does show a "through the lens" still photo as a part of a chat/endorsement bottom left hand side of the front page. "yeah super excited that our devkit has launched. here's me testing replay."
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#49I've looked around their website and the links people have commented here, but I've yet to see a video or image of the device actually working. I know it's hard to demo AR devices, but a simple video of a phone camera pointing through the device to show that there is actually content displaying would add much more credibility. Especially for $350 I need to see some sort of product demonstration.
It's not much, but https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS . They're not exactly helping their credibility with claims of 16x superZoom from a 720p camera.
It looks like it is actually a 5mp camera. Specifically a Omnivision OV5640. I wonder if it is a 720p camera at 16x zoom.
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#50I'm confused why there is no YouTube in the social media section on the site. Demo video is what I need the most to make a decision about buying a product
Found this on their instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS/