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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by coev »

toyg wrote: post #67
operatingthetan wrote: post #47

Earlier 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.

Short people will still be throwing phones up

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by pzo »

aqme28 wrote: post #122
gruturo wrote: post #106

These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…

> Pair it with my phone, give me driving directions which don't require me to take eyes off the road. I already do this with mine using audio.

sometimes audio is not enough, e.g. when driving motorbike/scooter in big city (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur) audio navigation is not enough to on time figure out which lane ramp you have to use at some intersection.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by function_seven »

l33t7332273 wrote: post #107
jejeyyy77 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for sure - ppl are strapping go pros to their heads.

They do this generally while doing some kind of movement based activity, the kind of activity where you need to strap a camera on, not wear a set ofglasses.

Can you list activities that you're thinking of? Because a lot of active sports are compatible with "wearing glasses". Surfing, snowboarding, rock climbing, water skiing, mountain biking, etc.

Sure, scuba divers still need some specialized gear, but there's tons of room in the sports segment for this kind of product.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by netsharc »

maxwell wrote: post #39
dangerlibrary wrote: post #4

The only lesson learned from google glass was "these look dorky, but are otherwise perfect."

Haha a guy wore them in a bar in downtown Vegas in 2013, and I watched multiple people approach him and tell him to take them off and stop recording everything. I never saw another pair IRL again.

If I were working for the Zuckborg, I wonder how I could make these things socially acceptable. Host an event with A-list beautiful people and pay them to wear these things and post all over social media, to make the glasses be desirable for the influencable?

Though not many celebs might want to be associated with the Zuckborg, nowadays.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by nickthegreek »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #24
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 was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, and it had no real AR interaction with the real world. But. If you could squint at the rough edges, and project forward what this could be like with more advanced tech, it was a no-brainer for me that it will be a far superior form factor for what we do with the…

I found google glass to be great. It had real world AR in directions. I used it several times in other cities to move about. I never really had any heat issues. I do wish we could have gotten a couple iterations, but that's Google for you.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by netsharc »

bjnewman85 wrote: post #16

if you cover the LED notification light you will get a notification to uncover it. Surely that will stop anyone from covering it.

I wonder if the easy mod would be to replace the LED with invisible IR LED (then again the makers have probably considered this).

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by HDThoreaun »

sgjohnson wrote: post #85
ArekDymalski wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I see 2 potential scenarios: 1. Some series of safety/privacy mishaps will lead to social/media hysteria which will push politicians towards a ban for such devices. 2. Initial price set too high will cause vicious circle of: low userbase -> lack of interest from developers -> lack of v…

> 2. Initial price set too high will cause vicious circle of: These are listed at $299. Hardly expensive, compared to how much ray bans cost.

But these aren't good enough to see mass adoption. It's possible that the tech needed to create an affordable smart glasses product that is actually usefully is for whatever reason just physically impossible to create.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by samtheprogram »

kstrauser wrote: post #99

I don't hate them. I just wish it were almost any other giant company that was making them. If someone showed up at my house wearing them, I think I'd make them take their glasses off before they came inside, in much the same way (and for the same reasons) that some people don't allow shoes in the house. I don't want someone tracking Facebook into my living room. Maybe the only worse maker would be Twitter. If a frie…

> Maybe the only worse maker would be Twitter. If a friend came over wearing Musk glasses, I'd probably rip them off their head and stamp on them for their own good. I definitely would not allow them into my house.

You might have gotten caught up in an ideology. I make fun of Elon and what he's doing to Twitter as much as the next guy, but... What do you imagine would be so harmful about them? Tracking, like with your Meta/Facebook example, or "omg those are Musk glasses, they must be destroyed!"

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by haunter »

Gen 1 had horrible picture quality. Casey Neistat made a review and it wasn't nowhere near good as an iPhone 5 from 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3iysOyelg&t=280s

If this has a better picture quality, like up to the ~2023 smartphone camera standards then I'll buy one. I really like the idea.

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