This just seems too good to be true.
And why do they have a patent on it if it's open source? Do they mean just the code? (It only looks like it has the MIT license, so assuming just the code).
IF it's real, then it's pretty neat.
Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
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Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#92As 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…
> 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. This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature: https://developers.google.com/glass/policies#c_what_you_cant... > Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifyi…
Not even an exception for user-entered data.
Like, I could conceivably take photos of people I meet, store those photos along with notes in the iOS notes app (or even a contact app) then create a panel of those photos so that I can tap the right person and bring up those notes when I see them again. AR would simply make this easier and faster. Unless the AR camera was hidden it would not make it different from a privacy perspective.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#93As 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…
>* Turn by turn directions I wouldn't touch any kind of AR use case while driving. Seems ripe for lawsuits when you're obscuring a driver's view (especially with an eyepiece compared to putting a HUD on the windshield)
> I wouldn't touch any kind of AR use case while driving. Seems ripe for lawsuits when you're obscuring a driver's view (especially with an eyepiece compared to putting a HUD on the windshield)
Cities, walking. :)
Walking around a city pulling out my phone to check directions is actively stupid, a HUD with arrows telling me what intersection to go down would improve safety on multiple fronts. (Theft and not situational awareness).
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#94I want an open source monochrome vector display delivered by laser to my retinas directly. I would slambuy such a thing and dedicated the rest of my life to making the best pocketable chorded keyboard. I, like many of you, am very good at telling a computer what to do with letters and symbols. I spend a lot of time in voice calls and I often write little scripts while I'm talking to answer questions, ballpark numbers…
Aren’t lasers high energy? Why would you ever want that pointing into your eye? Why not project regular light? Edit: never mind above TIL lasers are light and can be dimmed
No, there are low power lasers
https://hackaday.com/2020/04/15/the-smallest-large-display-i...
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature: https://developers.google.com/glass/policies#c_what_you_cant... > Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifyi…
> > 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. Which is too bad, since I see AR as potentially being a massively useful device for those with memory issues, dementia, or who generally need some help with things like this.
As someone who has struggled with names and dates and times my whole life, that is the single use that I was interested in.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#96As 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…
> 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. This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature: https://developers.google.com/glass/policies#c_what_you_cant... > Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifyi…
> This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature:
Which is ridiculous, it is giving an advantage to people who were born with a good memory for faces.
Do not allow for lookups in any sort of online database, all tagging has to be done locally by the user.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#97This just seems too good to be true. And why do they have a patent on it if it's open source? Do they mean just the code? (It only looks like it has the MIT license, so assuming just the code). IF it's real, then it's pretty neat.
Patented products are strictly worse. Imagine Monocle engineers come up with a slightly better design, but they realize it's not covered by their patent. What will they do?
As soon as one has a patent, then they are incentivized to sell their patented thing, not to switch to the thing that is better for their customers.
Patents are a way for lawyers to inject themselves where they don't belong to extract rent, making us all worse off. Patents are a negative sum game.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#98As 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…
> 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. This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature: https://developers.google.com/glass/policies#c_what_you_cant... > Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifyi…
> I wouldn't expect any "official" facial recognition on any of these upcoming AR devices any time soon.
I would, just not for the general public. This would be very helpful for police to immediately do a check on people around them and spot people with active warrants.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#99Without 6DOF tracking or depth mapping, this is just a HUD, not AR. Still neat though.
Yeah I'm curious about that, is an IMU enough to work well. The iPad/iPhone with the lidar it's rock solid when I tried it. I don't know if you can offload processing onto your phone with this, lag is not good or just not possible. IMU wouldn't make sense (phone in your pocket) but yeah. Not sure how you'd do the VIO without the I.
An IMU is enough for 3dof, but not 6dof. An IMU and a camera is enough for 6dof but not on that FPGA.
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#100As 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…
I think these are actually kind of lame use cases. They can almost entirely be replaced with a smart watch. Where this device has a unique advantage is overlay AR. Turn by turn is somewhat there but I think a better way to look at this is passive information. You could walk by a business and see hours on a virtual sign. You could make an app to leave virtual art you could stumble on. I'd like to see more ideas like t…
> You could walk by a business and see hours on a virtual sign.
Most stores have those posted already. :-D
> They can almost entirely be replaced with a smart watch.
Agreed, unfortunately current smart watches are tasked with doing a lot, and as a result they are not very good at blending into the background of life.
I'd also love a life logger, being able to see snapshots of my day and quickly create journal entries. An automatic record of everyone I talked to, summaries of important conversations.
Human potential could be greatly expanded with current day technology but sadly we are limiting ourselves.