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Post by Gh0stRAT »

cobertos wrote: post #322
Zaheer wrote: post #43

Reminds me of Snapchat's Spectacles: https://www.spectacles.com/ Forgot those even existed.

Didn't these fail[1]? How are these glasses different? I can't imagine the market for this sort or thing has gotten _that_ much bigger since Snapchat's try at this. [1]: https://mashable.com/article/snap-spectacles-warehouse-deman...

Did Snapchat's have really good audio quality that doesn't disturb the people around you? Pair that with modern AI assistant breakthroughs and it starts to seem pretty compelling.

They also look way less dorky than Snapchat's attempt.

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Post by makeitdouble »

gorjusborg wrote: post #223
audunw wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why glasses? I’ve paid a lot of money not to have to wear glasses. I might use some kind of camera attached to my head if it was something most people used. Would be nice to be able to capture moments instantly. I haven’t seen a use-case for low quality augmented reality that would make me use glasses daily. Then again, I personally don’t find smart watches worth it and lots of people use those. I think the Apple Vis…

> Why glasses? I’ve paid a lot of money not to have to wear glasses. Because it's the only socially acceptable way to point a camera at people without tipping them off. That's one reason google glass didn't take off as well. When you show up at the party waving your camera around on record, people tend to find a way to distance themselves.

It means that either this line of product will ruin glasses (false positives of people assuming your thick frame glasses are a hidden camera) either people really aren't tipped off and we'll have a moral panic about private footages overflowing in the media.

I see a future in smart glasses, in particular for notifications, but they absolutely need to tip off people when the camera is pointed at them.

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Post by fillskills »

promiseofbeans wrote: post #400

So... spy glasses?

Really shocked by the lack of controls around privacy. Its absolutely crazy that someone can now be filming my family members with a very inconspicuous device. On top of that it could be streaming or uploading live! Where is the outrage?!?! Am I missing something?

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Post by Saris »

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.

They could pulse the LED quickly and while it's off use it as a light sensor for ambient light.

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Post by baz00 »

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.

It’s probably duty cycled on and off and compared to a photodiode output on the reflection.

Either way the moment that light comes on you’re getting punched if you point it at the wrong person. I’d rather have my phone hit out of my hand. Google Glass was not welcome and I suspect the same will be true of this.

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Post by giantrobot »

loufe wrote: post #393

In my industry, mining, I can see this sort of integration into a miner's helmet working its way into sites as a sort of situation analysis tool pretty easily. It would make a lot of things so much easier for folks on the surface to be able to quickly see 3-D scans (lidar would be amazin) of broken rock, or new tunnel, or cracks, etc. I am with others for the desire for more opennness. I would never hop on this loade…

For the livestream it seems you can do that right now with an action camera attached to a miner's helmet and streamed via their smartphone.

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Post by JohnFen »

serf wrote: post #231
alex_young wrote: post #221

The 4 hour battery life will probably save us for a bit, but do you really want to walk around in a world where a bunch of strangers are taking pictures of you just by looking in your direction? I don’t. Who cares about the LED.

>but do you really want to walk around in a world where a bunch of strangers are taking pictures of you just by looking in your direction? given that the social stigma of phone photography and who it targets has just about disappeared, I think the "I don't want to be photographed' ship has sailed.

> the social stigma of phone photography and who it targets has just about disappeared

It certainly hasn't disappeared in my neck of the woods.

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Post by fillskills »

4ndrewl wrote: post #27

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.

Pretty inconspicuous. So no, not a great feature to stream/live upload people who didnt want their privacy violated.

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Post by SillyUsername »

ianbicking wrote: post #312
jperras wrote: post #277

Earlier 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…

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 st…

Android 10 allows it.

https://phoneia.com/en/android-10-allows-two-apps-different-...

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Post by deanCommie »

haunter wrote: post #140

Gen 1 had horrible picture quality. Casey Neistat made a review and it wasn't nowhere near good as an iPhone 5 from 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3iysOyelg&t=280s If this has a better picture quality, like up to the ~2023 smartphone camera standards then I'll buy one. I really like the idea.

Honestly my biggest beef with this isn't the quality but the field of vision.

It's so incredibly narrow and not at all how we imagine a "first person perspective" looks like for a human. (I know we lie to ourselves, and think that our peripheral vision is better than it is, but it doesn't matter)

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