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The return process was also complicated and annoying. Overall, I'd recommend against buying the first generation of these new glasses.
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 would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?
Everyone either got over it or shut up about it because they (ahem, we) had clearly lost.
I expect actually-useful smart glasses will eventually overcome the same stigma. Actually-useful being the key part of that.
Am I the only one who saw almost-exclusively-vertical-format video and thought "I'll pass"?
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I would guess there is photocell next to the LED and comparing the amount of light to the ambient light the cameras get. They might also be doing something clever and using the LED itself as a photo diode.
I wish I could find more things talking about this, but there's this classic demo of the technique: https://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/index.html It has always felt under-utilized to me. Maybe it needs power-sensing hardware that's too sensitive / too fast for most scenarios / costs?
Glasses may be a use case where space is at a premium, though, so it could make sense there.
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 would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?
Would you be just as uncomfortable eating lunch with someone who had their phone in their hand? It'd be much easier to surreptitiously record/photograph someone with a phone because they have no status indicator when they're recording and people inadvertently point phone lenses at each other all the time.
[*] 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?
If such a community were to exist I'd imagine they'd fit somewhere in the Venn diagram between smart-home enthusiasts and the quantified-self movement. Apologies for misleading you!
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 go for musculoskeletal enhancement, given how much it sucks to get old and have more or less at least one active chronic joint injury at all times no matter what, but thankfully, for now, my eyes and memory still work pretty well on their own.
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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.
> 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. Wonder how that works. Maybe the capture LED has a light sensor next to it that detects reflections? It solves an interesting problem, although the prevalence of cheap spy camera glasses on amazon make it an uphill battle.