Vegeta What does your powerlevel say?
its over 9000!!!!!
is the first thing that came to my mind.
Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
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#122Vegeta What does your powerlevel say? its over 9000!!!!! is the first thing that came to my mind.
They need to make ones that are rounded rectangles in bright blue/green/pink colours!
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#123As 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…
So Google basically banned Ironman! I am sure the government uses such devices responsibly ;)
Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
#124As 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…
Fix practically anything that instructions have been made for, unscrew here, unclip that, pull out that, replace this part; do it all backwards to put back together ... with visual overlays you're acting as a robot almost (that's good and bad).
Also, anything the AR can see you put down/drop can be remembered; anything you're looking for can be highlighted (in theory).
Would be fun to work on some other ideas.
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#125Without 6DOF tracking or depth mapping, this is just a HUD, not AR. Still neat though.
Are there any relatively low cost 6DOF standalone tracking systems in the wild? The closest thing I know are the Quest Pro controllers, but I don't understand why nobody is building such a thing as a plug an play solution that you can stick onto something and have immediate inside out positioning
Sony mocopi QM-SS1 is kind of 6DoF standalone
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#126Without 6DOF tracking or depth mapping, this is just a HUD, not AR. Still neat though.
Technically anything with a camera can be a 6DoF tracker
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#127Honestly $349 is too expensive. Potentially < $100 would encourage DIY folks.
Not ideal but kind of understandable in my opinion, sourcing a nice microdisplay is hard without connections, and possibly some investment.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like it is actually a 5mp camera. Specifically a Omnivision OV5640. I wonder if it is a 720p camera at 16x zoom. https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#camera
It's a 5MP camera for still photos, limited to 720p for video--although the data sheet says it can do 1080p as well. Perhaps that's bottlenecked elsewhere in the system.
from https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#bluetooth...:
It supports Bluetooth 5.2, up to 2Mb/s.
So video compression is going to have to get more than ~10x reduction to fit into 2Mb/s and that's just 1 frame/sec.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Shopping Lists (hard to do the interactions on this) with a companion app, you could scan the barcodes of the items as you place them in the cart, and then remove the item from the visible list in the AR HUD. shit, tie that into the actual store's check out system so you don't have to use their stupid POS self-checkout lines. just bag it up and be on your way. other than the products that are sold by weight, this se…
Even better, the device can have a camera that watches you put the item in your cart and marks it off the list.
Or it checks prices/inventory at other stores and lets you defer purchases to other stores to reduce how much you spend.
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#130I 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…
Dumb question maybe, but why does it need to be transparent or else projected directly into your eye? What doesn't work (or wouldn't work for you) about a flip-down hard backed display?