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Good 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.
They didn't say it wouldn't record.
Hopefully these will be banned
At the very least it should flash a red light when recording.
If somebody wants to record anything covertly, there's surely better options out there already - there's crazy stuff like cameras concealed in screw heads.
How does this work?
I'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 )
1. https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20ori...
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.
In my opinion barriers are: 1. Outward appearance. People don't like wearing glasses if they don't have to. 2. Tech issues: e.g. short battery life, weight, need for charging, UX. 3. Compelling features that make them worthwhile to use. This point is harder to explain, but a device needs to provide features to the wearer as they wear them and not indirect benefits. These features need to be particular to the device's…
These 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 s…
I know HN already has too much cynicism for my own liking, so it pains me to say: you can already do this with the phone you have in your pocket. Have a shortcut that enables audio dictation/photo mode/etc., and you're good to go.
The workflow for glasses (either these or some other hypothetical ones) would involve hitting a button and then having to either speak the command out loud or hit some other button to capture video/audio/etc., which seems more cumbersome than the phone approach that exists today.
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…
I mean, this is obviously where its going, but the tech isn't there yet without seriously compromising on some axis (looks, size/weight, etc) I think its a great way to get people used to the paradigm of smart glasses and further develop the other components that are already mature on phones (camera, compute, speakers, etc.)
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The tendency for people to be creeped out by your surveillance glasses. If anyone around me wore these, I'd promptly tease them playfully about it, making it clear it's creepy. I understand that there are folks like yourself that are comfortable with it, but most people are against others walking around and recording. I hate that they are trying to hide the fact that the glasses are modified. Clearly they understand…
If everyone being able to record anyone in public is the way we get people to stop acting like assholes to each other, Im all for it.