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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by taf2 »

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…

“Damn it Siri where did I leave my hammer?”

“At 8:32, you were in the basement and left it on your work bench, it was very close to the edge of the table and possibly fell”

Ah the easy life…

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by rtkwe »

ilyt wrote: post #496
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…

Gopro mount gonna be far cheaper than those > I have come to loathe my phone as a camera. Yes it works with gloves on, but every day it ends up covered in oil and grease. Holding it is awkward, you have to do a bunch of swipey things to make the camera work, the 3D Touch (or whatever it's called now) is somewhat random with gloves, and I've lost count of the number of times it's got itself stuck in portrait or panora…

Or a smaller action cam like the Insta360 Go. It even has a water resistant body with a single somewhat configurable body button you could hit to start recording the clip. It’s a third the size and weight of a GoPro though the video is definitely inferior.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

danShumway wrote: post #510
TheHappyOddish wrote: post #503

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> It is absolutely incredible to me that Facebook thinks it still has the social capital to pull a product like this off. I'm surprised you think they don't. Average people don't know who Meta are and that they own WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. Their properties have billions of daily active users and WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are _seperately_ two of the biggest messaging platforms in the world. Most Quest u…

Is the Quest's success more about ignorance of its relationship to Facebook or is it more about it being a low-priced entry VR set for a market segment where privacy doesn't really matter at all to most people? I don't mean that to be dismissive, I'm genuinely not sure if I can make a strong case in either direction. But if the success boils down to "my kid wants a VRChat headset, who cares who makes it", I'm not sur…

I actually agree on all points, but still think Meta has the social capital needed to do this.

Price point for VR is for sure a factor for VR uptake and would make a decision more difficult for a privacy concious parent. However critical mass is the key - same as Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. If all of your 13 years friends are on the Quest, that's what they want. Just like many of us retain these awful messaging platforms as that's where our friends communicate.

Glass did have a massive backlash. But 2013 was a long time ago. Big single ear bluetooth headphones were mocked, COVID hadn't happened, Netflix wasn't even around (or at least, not in any form recognisable).

I think the Google Glass was a victim of being too early. We have adjusted rapidly to ubiquitous technology around us, people are embracing AR daily. Hindsight will tell, but now or very soon is the time for AR to be embraced by general users.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by sterlind »

CommitSyn wrote: post #461
sterlind wrote: post #269

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HUDs like this are already common on fighter jets, and even some passenger aircraft, precisely so you don't have to look away to check gauges. Are you saying riding a motorcycle requires more concentration than flying an FA/18 Hornet?

In the jets, are all parts of the HUD always visible and they train to work around them as if it weren't part of the window but rather a permanent obstruction, or does the text pop up unexpectedly while they're flying? > Are you saying riding a motorcycle requires more concentration than flying an FA/18 Hornet? Are you saying that building strawmen is more important than the visibility of an FA/18 Hornet?

the BMW motorcycle HUD doesn't have text that pops up unexpectedly, as far as I can see from the demo video. quite the opposite: the HUD stays in one place, and it only displays speed and navigation info, and it doesn't seem very obstructing.

maybe we're talking about different smart glasses?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by jejeyyy77 »

karaterobot wrote: post #508

What I hope happens is that a few people with actual power are caught on camera by one of these things, and feel their privacy was violated, and then consent laws around recording in public change as a result. The ones we have are pretty old, and not ready for the future that is already here, let alone the one that is coming. I'm not holding my breath for this, it's just what I can imagine being the best outcome.

lol

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by xp84 »

ilyt wrote: post #496
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…

Gopro mount gonna be far cheaper than those > I have come to loathe my phone as a camera. Yes it works with gloves on, but every day it ends up covered in oil and grease. Holding it is awkward, you have to do a bunch of swipey things to make the camera work, the 3D Touch (or whatever it's called now) is somewhat random with gloves, and I've lost count of the number of times it's got itself stuck in portrait or panora…

I’m with you man. Touchscreen reliance is cancer.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by paul7986 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #291
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…

> hitting a button and then having to either speak the command out loud or hit some other button to capture video/audio/etc., which seems more cumbersome than the phone approach For the mass market, perhaps the right place to put the camera is on headphones. (I’m already talking to my AirPods.) This product doesn’t appear to be positioned for the mass market, however, but instead influencers.

Once battery life is solid and all bugs are worked out smart glasses will be as ubiquitous as smart phones

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by CapsAdmin »

pseudalopex wrote: post #113
its_ethan wrote: post #25

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It could notify you and then disable any recording until it's uncovered again..

It could. But why would they not say it will?

Surely that would be a PR disaster so I must assume they don't allow recording when covered.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by aemreunal »

karaterobot wrote: post #508

What I hope happens is that a few people with actual power are caught on camera by one of these things, and feel their privacy was violated, and then consent laws around recording in public change as a result. The ones we have are pretty old, and not ready for the future that is already here, let alone the one that is coming. I'm not holding my breath for this, it's just what I can imagine being the best outcome.

The issue with that is that it's a very slippery slope. Same laws could be used against people recording police interactions in public, for example, or other interactions where a private citizen is harassing another private citizen. It really needs to be carefully worded to avoid those pitfalls and I have a feeling that a lot of lawmakers would want to keep it intentionally vague.
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