The 4 hour battery life will probably save us for a bit, but do you really want to walk around in a world where a bunch of strangers are taking pictures of you just by looking in your direction? I don’t. Who cares about the LED.
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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#222These 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…
Unpopular opinion (even wsj wrote this product off [1]) but as a new dad these things have been an absolute game changer. I continue to play with my toddler at all times but I can also capture critical moments without my kid thinking I’m constantly on my phone. The grandparents have the footage on loop. This is just a win-win-win all around tbh even without any displays. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-ray-ba…
Honestly this single HN comment may have turned my opinion of the product category around.
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#223Any 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.
Why glasses? I’ve paid a lot of money not to have to wear glasses. I might use some kind of camera attached to my head if it was something most people used. Would be nice to be able to capture moments instantly. I haven’t seen a use-case for low quality augmented reality that would make me use glasses daily. Then again, I personally don’t find smart watches worth it and lots of people use those. I think the Apple Vis…
> Why glasses? I’ve paid a lot of money not to have to wear glasses.
Because it's the only socially acceptable way to point a camera at people without tipping them off.
That's one reason google glass didn't take off as well. When you show up at the party waving your camera around on record, people tend to find a way to distance themselves.
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#224Is 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 pric…
These are not AR glasses. As far as I can tell, they do not have a display at all.
Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
#225Any 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…
Somehow it didn’t stop millions of Angel and VC dollars from flowing.
I worked at a such a startup. It was vapor.
At least Glass had an API.
I wonder if any of the VPs at Essilor and Meta who shook on this are still with their companies and if their bonuses are linked to adoption.
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#226I'm excited about the use cases, and leery-but-cautiously-optimistic about tying the experience to meta, but am I the only one worried about buying hardware from a company that's synonymous with monopolistic price-gouging?
(Ray-Ban is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica )
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eyeballs are pretty optimal for getting data out of a computer and into a brain. I think professionals will continue to use a high-resolution large-format desktop monitor, but a high-resolution large-format display on a pair of glasses is unambiguously superior to a phone screen, no matter how much resolution they pack in or how much larger than a pocket they get. What I wonder is where the keyboard is going. I have…
I’ve been imagining the future will be smart glasses paired with mini pocket keyboards, like the bottom half of a blackberry. Or who knows maybe everyone will lean heavily into dictation. I think there’s also a future where hand tracking gets so good you just type on a full sized floating keyboard. That’s seems to be apples approach with the Vision Pro.
> Or who knows maybe everyone will lean heavily into dictation.
Impractical, as lots of input is hard or even impossible to do with dictation; saying "next" or "go back" every time quickly becomes tiresome, and never mind things like games.
For pure text messages and the like there are loads of scenarios where you don't want to be talking out loud, for reasons of convenience, privacy, and not being a nuisance to others.
It's looks cool on Star Trek and all, but voice control will never be the main interface to computers. Absolutely great accessibility tool and like many accessibility tools useful for everyone from time to time. But the default for regular people? I'm not seeing that happening.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unpopular opinion (even wsj wrote this product off [1]) but as a new dad these things have been an absolute game changer. I continue to play with my toddler at all times but I can also capture critical moments without my kid thinking I’m constantly on my phone. The grandparents have the footage on loop. This is just a win-win-win all around tbh even without any displays. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-ray-ba…
Honestly this single HN comment may have turned my opinion of the product category around.
Yeah this would be a great way to market them!
Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
#229These 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…
Unpopular opinion (even wsj wrote this product off [1]) but as a new dad these things have been an absolute game changer. I continue to play with my toddler at all times but I can also capture critical moments without my kid thinking I’m constantly on my phone. The grandparents have the footage on loop. This is just a win-win-win all around tbh even without any displays. [1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-ray-ba…
This was what made the original Glass interesting - being able to live your life while also archiving memories for Future You etc.
Still, Facebook isn't exactly a company that has earned trust to fill that role.
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#230We should really give it to Meta for their tenacity. While Google canceled its projects left and right, including Google Podcasts to celebrate their 25-year birthday and Google Glass, Meta perseveres and pushes the state-of-the-art.
Meta is absolutely despearate. They bet their farm on the Metaverse thing and are trying everything to make that thing get some momentum.