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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by hotnfresh »

crashingintoyou wrote: post #332

Am I the only one who saw almost-exclusively-vertical-format video and thought "I'll pass"?

No but also all of us are rapidly approaching “old man yells at cloud” on this issue.

Major video social media has settled on vertical. That’s what folks in that world expect.

I don’t think that trajectory has a chance of changing until something replaces the cell phone (which’ll probably me some kind of glasses, assuming it turns out to be possible to build a version of them that’re any good as a replacement for a cell phone interface)

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by farkanoid »

knodi123 wrote: post #350

> 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.

LEDs can effectively be used as light sensors when wired in reverse - About a decade ago there was a post where someone turned an 8x8 LED matrix into a touch sensor.

Edit: Found the link, here it is: https://mrl.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/index.html

Analog Devices has an excellent article about using LEDs as sensors in this way: https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/elect...

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by JohnFen »

addicted wrote: post #79
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.

That same ability might lead people to ban people wearing smart glasses from participating. If we were having a party, we’d almost certainly not allow people to keep their smart glasses on because the complete lack of friction would mean certain individuals who are decently in the public eye would have to basically spend the whole evening just making sure there’s not even a suggestion of a still picture capturing som…

I wouldn't allow someone in my home if they're wearing these. If I were at a social function where someone had these on, I'd almost certainly leave.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by Terr_ »

Hextinium wrote: post #348
jperras wrote: post #307

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cognitive load of the notifications is an interesting point that I hadn't considered; I can see myself being distracted by those in the workflow I proposed in my previous comment. I wonder if much of this could be solved by OS-level functionality (or at least having it in a developer-accessible SDK) that allows the new "always-on" lock screens to immediately trigger an application on a single tap.

This is on some android phones, double tapping power will open the camera. I use it all the time to take pictures of information that I don't want to write down, package numbers, measurements, error logs, all just tap tap, point, volume down.

> information that I don't want to write down

I occasionally use it that way for painted labels on parking-spaces at the airport. (I have yet to need them, but it seems a reasonable precaution given how even a small amount of floor/zone/row forgetfulness could leave me wandering the 10,000-spot complex.)

That said, I also find myself wishing I could mark those photos as "temporary", so that they get auto-deleted within a month or whatever.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by tempestn »

the_arun wrote: post #336

How is this different from Google Glasses that were launched earlier?

Aside from being glasses with tech and a camera, they're very different. Google Glass had a screen, for one thing, so it was an early attempt at AR. It didn't have lenses, and didn't look anything like regular glasses. This is designed to look and function like regular glasses or sunglasses, with the addition of a camera and speakers.
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