i'd love a pair of jf rey smart glasses
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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#72Feeding Meta more video and audio is the least interesting use case for smart glasses. The hardware looks like a nice start for smart glasses but the lack of AR display and required tethering to Meta makes these undesirable to me.
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#73Any 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.
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#74Any 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.
> Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually?
Yes, if it is clunky and doesn't look like an ordinary accessory people would wear anyway.
Smart watches are popular enough as people might wear a watch. Smart glasses could be popular if they look like actual glasses. Smart pants? Sure, if they can be worn like pants, thrown in the laundry and so on.
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#75Can dang do something about the corporate spam that keeps popping up on HN? I don't think meta, or Apple, or the rest of these companies need help advertising products.
Because YCombinator is not "corporate"...? Dude.
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#76Can dang do something about the corporate spam that keeps popping up on HN? I don't think meta, or Apple, or the rest of these companies need help advertising products.
A tech giant is using luxury branding to encourage people to put networked cameras on their faces.
I think that's worth my attention even if I'm not the intended customer.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
My assumption is that people like to be seen recording and/or recording themselves. I'm guessing 'terminally online phone' people don't have the impulse to use their phones less and keep it in their pocket?
> people like to be seen recording I don't think so. Do people at a concert hold their phones out to be seen recording? No, they just want to record and that's the only way to do it. They'd love to be able to do it hands free for sure.
Soon we'll see people holding up sunglasses then!
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#78Is 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.
Yea there's for sure a market. Beyond what others have said wrt GoPros, many people photograph/stream shows/concerts/etc. Studies have shown you remember events better when you take the intentional act to photograph it, but fiddling with a phone in the moment can be distracting. Why would people want to be focusing on a phone, or be seen with a phone, when they could just watch the event AND get the recording?
I attend concerts a lot, and often post snippets to social media. There's always a tension I see among myself and others of trying to catch those particular lines of a song, while still not missing the show to mess with your phone.
Will I buy these? Meh, maybe. But the appeal is there.
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#79Any 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.
That same ability might lead people to ban people wearing smart glasses from participating.
If we were having a party, we’d almost certainly not allow people to keep their smart glasses on because the complete lack of friction would mean certain individuals who are decently in the public eye would have to basically spend the whole evening just making sure there’s not even a suggestion of a still picture capturing something that may go wrong.
You will almost certainly be required to remove your smart glasses before entering any sort of medical institution, and even a building containing a medical institution would probably have you removing it on entering the building itself.
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#80Good news for those who don't want to be caught on camera "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." So that's nice.
Makes me think of the power dynamic between smart glass wearers and bystanders as a social problem and not a technical one: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-glasses