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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
#252These 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…
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#253I see a lot of people complaining about display. These are not meant for that use case. Maybe someday the tech will be available to have a display. That said, I have v1 Rayban Stories and use them as my daily driver sunglasses. I use them mainly for answering calls or listening to music but take occasional photos.
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#254I can't help but feel like "smart glasses" is really pushing what this is? I feel like the vast majority of people when they see the words "smart glasses" they probably think some sort of AR tech, or at the very least some sort of screen. And yet this is really just glasses with something like AirPods stuck in it with a camera connected to your phone. Super smart. Society is far far from ready to answer the privacy q…
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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.
Wearing the same glasses constantly just in case your kid makes a thing?
There is a reason why people get lasik.
But hey if people start wearing more sunglasses outside good for them it's better for the eyes.
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#256Any 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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#257I'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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#258The 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.
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#259These could be pretty incredible if the platform was more open. You get highly available image and voice input, and good voice output.
Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer screen? Pair that with quickly available audio transcriptions and you can also dictate anything, thoughts, small notes, information associated with the images.
That all could be great... if the library of things you made was useful. It's pretty clear how it could be useful now; do some OCR and other detection on images, use a vector store for both that and transcripts, and hook it all up to an LLM assistant. It's a bit complicated, and a bit expensive to run, but at least for a prototype you could make something pretty incredible.
Meta might make something like that... but they aren't doing that yet, and they might never do that. If the platform was open people could explore these things right now. And it doesn't even need to be radically open, you don't need to be able to hack the firmware; but it has to be more open than the preview Ray-Ban glasses, and I'm assuming more open than this revision.
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#260I'm not interested in this particular device, but after almost being hit by cars several times this month while walking my dog, I am starting to warm to the idea of some form of "dash cam" for walking.
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