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Where do I go to for quality sunglasses?
Jacques Marie Mage are very nice, I'm also a fan of Matsuda.
Thank you.
Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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I saw some such wearables during the Hong Kong demonstrations couple of years back
Do you have a link to that?
They are talking about an art project from students at a dutch university and are misinformed. https://youtu.be/D1Thmz61sho
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#943We need to invent something that does the opposite now where individuals could wear something that prevents them from showing up in someone else’s content without explicit digital consent (some sort of personal scrambler). I don’t think the LED feature listed on this product page will often be honored by most people who will use these shades
Yeah. The creepy is back. When Google released its glasses, people jumped on it right away always gave me weird vibes. Why would someone want to do it? What is an everyday function that would be greatly improved by this, aside from some professional application?
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#944We need to invent something that does the opposite now where individuals could wear something that prevents them from showing up in someone else’s content without explicit digital consent (some sort of personal scrambler). I don’t think the LED feature listed on this product page will often be honored by most people who will use these shades
> some sort of personal scrambler We're nearly at the "Foundation" levels of surveillance tech, but with no countermeasures in sight to oppose that. Even resisting web browser fingerprinting is difficult.
I think we still have an option of a privacy regulation that requires explicit expiring consent on any kind PII handling and a private right of action to enforce it (e.g. small claims court).
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Aren't these what you mean? https://www.ray-ban.com/eu/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20orig...
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that model; they must be new. Looks like they were introduced back in March of this year. Good to see the barrel hinges. But a couple of questions: Are the lenses glass? (It says they're G-15, which is supposed to be mineral glass, but I don't know if RB has changed the definition somewhere along the line and replaced them with plastic). Are these only available in EU, or in the US as well?
G-15 is just the tint color (the gray/green). It’s not the material. I’m pretty sure that only way you’re getting glass lenses from Ray-Ban is if you get the high index prescription lenses.
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#946I got a pair of the original Stories and they are my most favorite device released in the past decade except for the AirPods. Countless times I've wanted to capture something with my kids, or on a drive, or on a bike ride. I can just tap the button on my glasses and that's it. I'm not taken out of the moment at all. It's great. as for the other stuff, Bluetooth speaker included, I wish they would rip it all out.
Is there anything that makes it clear to the people around you that they are being recorded?
There’s an LED on them
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That's just a software thing though. Not sure why they didn't run it through a stabilizer.
Hardware stabilization is better but it takes space. For pure software stabilization, it can be done by PC or powerful smartphone so it's better to not to have on glass frame for saving battery.
Whether or not it is better depends entirely on what the end images look like and how important the pictures are. If it’s meant to act as a camera to snap and share the fun you are having, then it might be a real turn off if it is noticeably worse than your smartphone, which does have hardware stabilization. If customers stop using the camera on the device and reach for their phone to get the best possible picture, then the glasses lose 1/3 of their major features in the eyes of the customers, and it makes it harder to justify the price.
I’m not convinced software correction is enough, but maybe it is fine. It just depends on what is possible, what matters, and how much people are willing to pay for it.
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#948I have the original model and they're fun, if not super expensive. Unfortunately the audio quality is some of the worst you can have; if there's ANY external noise you can't hear any of your music playing at all.
This one says the audio is improved but I'd have to hear it before splurging again.
I had read that bone-conducting audio is better so I'm a bit disappointed to see that this one doesn't have that.
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#949Gen 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)
Oh yes the field of vision is very bad! I liked to take snapshots out when with my wife, and I'd turn my head and she wouldn't even be in the field of view.
You have to turn your head 180 degrees like an owl and have them dead centre in front of the camera side to get them on film.
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What would you use it for? I kind of like it conceptually, but hard to imagine how I'd actually use it.
Would be great while driving. Better than a dash cam
I did that. Unfortunately you'd have your stereo blasting, right? And then the second you upload it somewhere you'll get a copyright infringement notice and they mute the audio. Thanks Facebook.