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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by SoftTalker »

JohnFen wrote: post #333
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.

It's better than nothing, but it does put other people in the uncomfortable position of having to ask the glasses wearer to not record. And can you see the indication before you're actually on camera?

The counter is to put on your own pair of glasses that have mirrored lenses, a laser beam scanning back and forth and a prominent shotgun microphone pointed at the other person.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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tapvt wrote: post #464

> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. I'd use that regularly while working on my truck. It'd be a lot easier than stopping during every disassembly step to snap a picture with my phone.

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Post by zdragnar »

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?

Maybe I haven't gotten far enough in the thread, but it seems like most people have forgotten that when Google came out with these, the people who were wearing them were called "glassholes".

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by SoftTalker »

nickthegreek wrote: post #172
pzo wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try taking your phone out and start recording when talking to some random people on the street or in shop at cash register, or when talking to policeman etc. and see if none of them will start getting very annoyed or even aggressive - even if it's not (maybe) illegal people won't like it.

People are allowed to be annoyed. If you punch someone, or break/steal their property for recording, there are actual LEGAL consequences that could befall you. People record others all the time, there is this whole Karen phenomenon that is kinda hard not to know about..

> there are actual LEGAL consequences that could befall you

There are, but they are extraordinarly unlikely. People push and shove each other all the time over minor insults and disagreements and almost never end up in front of a judge. Most cops would just say "you should have put the camera down when he asked you to, now stop wasting my time."

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by tsumnia »

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…

It will absolutely get integrated sooner rather than later. The Microsoft Hololens is still bulky compared to these, but is getting tested out right now by the US military to view the insides of aircrafts [1]. After a few more size and cost decreasing iterations, it will get quickly adopted.

Granted, I'm a tech luddite by modern standards, so as a retail consumer I still fear ads all over my FOV. But for businesses there's absolutely a need, use case, everything for it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4EQ1Ltujs

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

paul7986 wrote: post #537
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

> smart glasses will be as ubiquitous as smart phones

This reminds me of the difference between Apple and Google: a sense of style. I have no doubt smart glasses will find their niche in industry and among techies. But what people put on their faces is deeply tied to identity. Until the technology can exist virtually unseen, it’s not going to compete.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by lnxg33k1 »

How is privacy dealt with? I am not sure, but we are already tracked by meta without even being signed up, are we going to be tracked even offline for taking a walk? Is this piece of disgrace company and the piece of shit that work for it just so uninterested of what their products to do people? Is it possible to inject some common sense in big tech?
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