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Post by esafak »

nickthegreek wrote: post #235
Gud wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a big difference between actively choosing to film, showing you are filming someone and a passive camera always on. The first one can be easily avoided, the second one not so much.

Who is talking about passive only on recording? This device would melt your face before if it tried that.

That is a technicality; I object on principle. I extrapolated current capabilities to underscore the argument, because more people will lifestream/lifecast the easier it gets. Tomorrow it may be a neural link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestreaming

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Post by majikandy »

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’d say “comfort”. Glasses aren’t comfortable for many people and neither are contact lenses. I have a mild prescription but the discomfort of the glasses (arms, nose bridge, turning head more) is greater than the discomfort of my vision not being ultra sharp (for me). So a future of putting on glasses for the tech really isn’t for me.

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Post by theodric »

ctippett wrote: post #265

[*] Home surveillance cam — Check [*] Car dash cam — Check [*] Bike helmet cam — Check [*] Drone follow cam — Check [ ] Face cam Those of us in the FreeCam community have been dreaming of something like this for a long time.

Google Glass offered customers a face-mounted camera in 2013. Snapchat released their Spectacles in 2016. This is not a novel concept, even in the consumer electronics space, to say nothing of Steve Mann's work which stretches back decades.

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Post by itissid »

gffrd wrote: post #264

Am I the only one who doesn't understand the obsession with ramming tech in to existing accessories? Why must sunglasses also be a camera? Or Alexa? It's not for lack of knowing the answer. Because you're already taking your sunglasses with you everywhere, anyway. Because there's no way you're carrying around another thing. Because it's the most convenient way of securing a more intimate relationship with customers.…

Because there is no way meta can challenge Google and Apple's dominance on the mobile platform(e.g. look at how the they have monopolized location services and apple has dented their ad market) and they are desperate to redefine what the next generation of communication and mobility devices look like.

This is also the first generation of mobile wearables. Expect more will come in the next two years paired with other devices.

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Post by xnx »

ctippett wrote: post #265

[*] Home surveillance cam — Check [*] Car dash cam — Check [*] Bike helmet cam — Check [*] Drone follow cam — Check [ ] Face cam Those of us in the FreeCam community have been dreaming of something like this for a long time.

What's the FreeCam community?

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Post by lm28469 »

api_or_ipa wrote: post #70

Pricing is interesting. $299 for the Wayfarer model when the base Wayfarer goes for $171 on the Rayban website. If (and this is a big if) you assume Luxottica takes the same cut on both models, then Meta is selling a camera, headphones, etc, conveniently packaged into a very small form-factor for $128. If I were in the market for a new pair of sunglasses, it isn't hard to seem me splurging another $128 for something…

For me, and probably a lot of people, it's the opposite, I'd pay more if needed to get the non tech version

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Post by geephroh »

What company would I trust less than Google to deploy wearable technology with potentially staggering privacy issues?

OK, it's probably Twitter; but still, I'm sure as hell not buying anything tied to Meta, either.

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Post by theodric »

cvccvroomvroom wrote: post #170
hintymad wrote: post #50

We 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.

There's no tenancy here. They're not AR. They're not even at par with Glass.

This looks to me like a rehashing of 2016's Snapchat Spectacles combined with the bone-conduction bluetooth temples available on numerous cheap AliExpress sunglasses.
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