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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

notJim wrote: post #488
toddmorey wrote: post #302

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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…

> It would be a rare thing that someone would actually be streaming or recording on them, unless you agreed to make a video.

I'm not sure how you believe this.

> 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.

Even if the social contract prevented this (I don't believe it does), there's little to no risk of someone being caught recording your conversations with them. No risk means no worry about the social contract.

> 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.

I'm assuming you truly believe this, but to me, this is really starting to feel like parody.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by z2h-a6n »

ilyt wrote: post #496
scrumper wrote: post #425

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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…

> Yeah, I wish my phone was like 3x thicker and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

Surely this part is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Digital cameras still exist.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

Gh0stRAT wrote: post #356
toddmorey wrote: post #302

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I would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?

I mean, the light makes it VERY apparent when it's recording or taking a picture. 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.

> I mean, the light makes it VERY apparent when it's recording or taking a picture.

Surely no one will figure out how to disable that light, right?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by danielvaughn »

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…

Or imagine that you've got an AI taking in your video and giving you instructions, like while you're cooking or something.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by theptip »

pj_mukh wrote: post #299
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 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…

Not teaching your kids to be glued to a phone is actually a fairly compelling usecase here.

I also like the idea of being able to remain mostly in the moment vs putting a phone in between me and the scene.

Still not sure these justify wearing this device, particularly all the time. But perhaps it could be cool to wear for family outings or whatever, when you expect to want to take lots of photos?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by bacon_waffle »

danielvaughn wrote: post #544
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…

Or imagine that you've got an AI taking in your video and giving you instructions, like while you're cooking or something.

At times in my life, I'd have paid good money to disable that feature of some NIs.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

KaiserPro wrote: post #125
tpmx wrote: post #58

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Subsidized by Meta for getting them more data? I would also imagine that Meta is paying them handsomely for the obvious brand risk here - getting Ray-Bans associated with glasshole behaviour. The Ray-Ban brand is owned by the Italian-French EssilorLuxottica conglomerate. Market cap 74B EUR. (Meta market cap: 770B USD.)

lol, facebook can barely get the glasses to play sound reliably, they aren't spying on you with these glasses.

> lol, facebook can barely get the glasses to play sound reliably, they aren't spying on you with these glasses.

Based on what do you assume playing sound reliably is a harder or more priority problem than spying on you?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by danielvaughn »

bacon_waffle wrote: post #546
danielvaughn wrote: post #544

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Or imagine that you've got an AI taking in your video and giving you instructions, like while you're cooking or something.

At times in my life, I'd have paid good money to disable that feature of some NIs.

NIs?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

TheHappyOddish wrote: post #504
wilsonnb3 wrote: post #347

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Black nail polish is out today

It's also fairly trivial to disable an LED physically.

On a site called "hacker news" how is this not mentioned at the top-level to all of the "an led prevents people from silently recording you"?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by pests »

maroonblazer wrote: post #518
pests wrote: post #514

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What will the GoPro mount solve? > and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen. That would be amazing.

> What will the GoPro mount solve? Hands-free video recording, ala J Kenji Lopez Alt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFjuglEAds

Totally different use case though. That's chest mounted pointing down. Sure, useful for some. Perfect for something like cooking.

The benefit here I think is a more literal WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get. You see it, you get the photo of it.

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