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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by bobobob420 »

seabass-labrax wrote: post #427
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…

Luxottica is probably doing very nicely on this partnership, and may well be offering Apple a substantial price cut to compensate. I had never heard of 'Rayban' before this Apple announcement! (Not that I am the target market for sunglasses anyway, in dark and wet Great Britain)

Have you seriously never heard of Rayban but know what Luxottica is? I dont want you to dox yourself but I assume non US…?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by itissid »

ianbicking wrote: post #318
itissid wrote: post #296

I 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.

They can but remember, having location always on, collected when the app is backgrounded, is a deeply buried permission, once turned off it's hard to turn it back on(or in apples case reminding user with a map to tell you "xyz app has collected your location"); Google is poised to make it more difficult to activate.

Now the Thing is even though background collection is bad in principle because apps must indicate purpose of use for such a sensitive permission and it's hard to think how apps can make a case for it; Google and apple apps still do it for their own apps by default!(Apple does not even have a wifi scanning API)

The only way to get any location based notif while backgrounded for 3p apps is Geofencing which is narrow and not workable for location targeting.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by anonu »

Wearing Google Glass made you a glasshole. Snapchat Spectacles spectacularly never took off. I hope these Smart Glasses make you look dumb and nobody buys them. I think the major issue is the camera, for me ...

What i would pay for is minimalist eyewear with a heads-up display. That would be useful

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by itissid »

adamrezich wrote: post #301
itissid wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> This is also the first generation of mobile wearables. is it? Google Glass was like a decade ago, and Snap Spectacles were released sometime after that. they keep trying to make this happen every few years and it never seems to stick.

I mean meta's first gen(they had glasses last year but they were not that good and were more of a test run).

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by lsh123 »

scrumper wrote: post #425
jperras wrote: post #277

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> 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 am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

I have exactly the same problem with dirty hands when I take boroscope photos of the engine on my plane. I would love to just see it in my glasses and say blink twice to take a photo.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by notJim »

toddmorey wrote: post #302
ianbicking wrote: post #259

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?

It would be a rare thing that someone would actually be streaming or recording on them, unless you agreed to make a video. Technically someone could record your every conversation with their phone in their pocket or on the table, but no one worries about that, because it goes against the social contract. If one of your friends did that regularly, everyone understands it would likely be the end of that friendship, and others they shared that with would shun them. I think it's the same with these glasses.

Another similar example is reading your SOs text messages. In the past this would be impossible because normal people didn't have a "paper trail", but now most everyone does. But it's not a huge concern for most people, because we know it's socially unacceptable to look at someone's messages without a very good reason.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by seabass-labrax »

bobobob420 wrote: post #481
seabass-labrax wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luxottica is probably doing very nicely on this partnership, and may well be offering Apple a substantial price cut to compensate. I had never heard of 'Rayban' before this Apple announcement! (Not that I am the target market for sunglasses anyway, in dark and wet Great Britain)

Have you seriously never heard of Rayban but know what Luxottica is? I dont want you to dox yourself but I assume non US…?

Indeed, I'm from Britain. I really hadn't ever heard of Rayban - and I only know what Luxottica is because I looked it up after reading this thread :)

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by dharmab »

eludwig wrote: post #435
scrumper wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

Sounds like a perfect use-case for a GoPro?

Headband mounted GoPros are awkward. A helmet mounted GoPro works better, but you're either not wearing a helmet, or if you are you probably need to keep it clear of protrusions for safety reasons.
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