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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ClarityJones »

sp3000 wrote: post #8

Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.

I don't think it will be as ubiquitous as smart phones for the same reason smart watches are not as ubiquitous as smart phones.

The reason I do not wear a smart watch is not because they're not useful, but because it's simply not comfortable for me to be wearing something on my wrist. It's not a big deal, but I prefer to not wear rings, watches, bracelets, etc.

Similarly, I prefer contacts over glasses because of a 1) glasses reduce your field of view / quality of vision, 2) the touch / feel of having something on my face, and 3) them inevitably falling off or being grabbed by my baby.

Smart watches got as ubiquitous as normal watches, and smartphones got as ubiquitous as wallets (and other things you might keep in a pocket or purse). I expect smart glasses will become about as ubiquitous as regular glasses.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

cush wrote: post #21
ziziyO wrote: post #12

I don't understand how putting a camera on a pair of glasses is what meta/rayban wanted to spend time on.

Yeah it’s their looooong term bet.

"For sunglass creeps to capture more long-term memories."

—Some Rayban Executive, probably.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by Justsignedup »

Reminds me of google glasses and the "glasshole" mentality. But because these are pretty stealth people won't realize it.

It does have strong surveillance state vibes, everything I look at is recorded and replayable. Gonna take the cancel culture (in both the positive and negative aspects) to overdrive.

In any case, let's see the price tag. When that tag goes sub-$100 we'll see some real stuff happening. Also would be interesting to see the cultural shift as most people may end up wearing glasses with AR built into them.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by MilStdJunkie »

As a shooting enthusiast, my first thought is what this does in pistol competitions.

Shooting a pistol is, perhaps unintuitively, more difficult than a long arm, because the rear sight is effectively floating around "out there", and you need practice to get your rear eye in the right place (even if using a flip-up red dot reflex sight). When moving around, re-acquiring always takes time, and it slows you down.

With the smart glasses (and a teensy tiny accelerometer-thngy on the barrel), your point of aim is always in your field of view, and you don't need to slow down or even acquire. You could hip-shoot accurately from a dead sprint. It's gonna be pretty rad. They're gonna have to do eyeware examinations, or else it's going to be dominated by smartglass shooters. Like, "dominated" as in "someone is using a cheat code" dominated.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by throwaway-blaze »

WesternWind wrote: post #6

I'm not personally in love with the idea of smart glasses that don't have a display of some sort.

The technology for displays (resolution, battery/power needs, field of view issues) is so many years away that it makes sense to try and go with basic touch/swipe and audio UI now. There are great use cases for a device like this...no doubt with a display ability it would be truly incredible but no reason not to be working on this today.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by some_random »

sp3000 wrote: post #8

Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.

Is there a good way to text someone with smart glasses yet? How about cropping a photo before posting to instagram? What's the experience of doomscrolling twitter/x/whatever? I really don't think they're going to be as ubiquitous, as smartphones without being as good or better than them in at least some of these

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by tpmx »

TwoFactor wrote: post #3

Interesting that the price is only around $100 more than regular Ray-Bans

Subsidized by Meta for getting them more data?

I would also imagine that Meta is paying them handsomely for the obvious brand risk here - getting Ray-Bans associated with glasshole behaviour.

The Ray-Ban brand is owned by the Italian-French EssilorLuxottica conglomerate. Market cap 74B EUR.

(Meta market cap: 770B USD.)

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by toyg »

operatingthetan wrote: post #7

Is there a market for this? Stealth smart glasses that force you to indicate you are recording? Are live-streamers going to use this? Don't people want to be using their phone anyway? >The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.

They are not "stealth smart glasses", they are the first iteration of AR glasses. Recording is one of the many things they do. And I'd buy them in a second if it means I don't need to take my phone out every few minutes (and if I had the money, I expect them to be uber-expensive); or I don't need to look away from the road to check directions as I drive; or I don't need to reveal in-shop that I'm checking online prices for an item. There are a lot of possibilities beyond capturing, if not in this generation in the next one with displays.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by TrueDuality »

The only appealing thing for me with smart eye-wear is a personal display. Doesn't need to be big or rich, enough for notification filtering much like smart watches give me. A camera on these is frankly still kind of in the creepy realm to me, but I do get it and it'll probably be a necessary component for any kind of proper AR.

The Meta AI integration is also a massive turn off to me. To each their own, but I want to keep the smart bits mostly in the smart phone. The assistants so far have been anything but assistive on my devices and usually both get in the way (since for a while everyone was really pushing you to use them, only Google seems to have not gotten that particular message) and are privacy nightmares in their own right.

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