I think it'd be nice to blink and automatically post to Instagram everytime some driver does something unhinged while I'm on my bicycle. Not sure I can think of any pro-social use cases though.
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#312These 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…
> 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 as…
People already regularly use their phones for this kind of image capture (taking a picture as documentation, not for nostalgic memories or sharing). This seems like a positive signal. Voice doesn't get used this way, but the voice interactions are cumbersome on the phone mostly because the platform is not open enough, not because of form factor issues.
In regards to voice: there's no way to have access to the easy start mechanisms of wake words or quick button access and also control what happens before intent resolution and endpointing (i.e., deciding when the voice interaction is done). You can have your own app with its own "record" button: hard to open but you have control of what happens. Or you use the assistant infrastructure and have to compete with every other Apple/Google product goal and parsing approach, and at best you have a chance to do further recording only after the initial intent has fully resolved, the mic has closed, and you can reopen it.
So yes a phone can do all that, and it ALSO would be awesome, but just like with these glasses you can't ACTUALLY implement this.
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#313As someone else here said - I don’t care about a camera, I want a display, and I certainly wouldn’t want a camera from Facebook.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 as…
I have the near opposite experience especially having attempted to build the mobile based product you mentioned [ https://placenote.com/ ] The seamlessness of glasses is really what makes this even possible, especially now that voice is becoming a seamless interface. I largely like my phone to remain in my pocket (especially when I’m with my impressionable kids) and bringing it out and unlocking, getting my brain to…
Glasses also free up both hands, which is a pretty big deal.
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#315Reminds me of google glasses and the "glasshole" mentality. But because these are pretty stealth people won't realize it. It does have strong surveillance state vibes, everything I look at is recorded and replayable. Gonna take the cancel culture (in both the positive and negative aspects) to overdrive. In any case, let's see the price tag. When that tag goes sub-$100 we'll see some real stuff happening. Also would b…
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#316We 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.
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#317Reminds me of Snapchat's Spectacles: https://www.spectacles.com/ Forgot those even existed.
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#318I am wondering how they will build out Wifi-Index for positioning(GPS sucks in cities) assuming they want to do location based targetting for any number of purposes(ads, recommendations, location based geo-fencing etc). The critical piece for attribution is linking Wifi based position to a PoI(for location based anything). This takes a few years to build. Google has a great map blue dot has good fidelity with locatio…
These glasses appear to be pretty closely tied to your phone (like the previous revision), so they can just use whatever positioning your phone has.
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#319No way would I keep a camera on my head that is directly uploading image (and audio?) data to a Meta owned and operated platform. No. F*&(king. Way.
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#320These 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…
That... takes like a double-click on a modern cell phone to pull up the camera, with an all-day battery life and no silly designer glasses needed. Also doesn't need to upload all your crap to Meta.