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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by jehb »

sp3000 wrote: post #952
jehb wrote: post #41

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I mean, sure, there are plenty: regulation, battery life, ruggedness, the creep factor, the fact that this does not provide me with anything similar to the value of a smartphone. Not all of us spend our days walking down urban streets, having a desire to have the things around us augmented. My smart phone spends 98% of its life in my pocket because I don't want or need any application most of the time. I've tried ado…

You have a presented a great argument on why you will not be using smart eyewear. Nothing convincing about why it won't be adopted by the general population. Smart watch doesn't have and will never have anywhere close to the capabilities smart eyewear eventually will.

My point is that this view of the "general population" is extremely skewed. I would wager that more than half of smartphone users do not have any use case for their phone aside from calling, texting, and scrolling social media. Despite years of the technology existing, no one has come forward with a use case for "smart" glasses that has even had remotely broad appeal with the general public. It's all hype backed up by descriptions of niche uses.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by throwaway837367 »

wyclif wrote: post #935
sirsinsalot wrote: post #803

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Assuming both commenters are honest, I'm going to listen to the person who works in QA in the industry. The parent just sounds like someone who loves a specific item and is a bit miffed they changed it. Lots of "cheap plastic lenses" and "cheap spring hinges" type complaints without much backup. Is carbon fiber cheap and rubbish because it isn't steel? Why does the parent think plastic means inferior? "Mine are 40 ye…

Are you seriously claiming that plastic lenses are higher quality and longer lasting than glass lenses? Plastic lenses scratch very easily; glass lenses don't. Also, I don't need to write a white paper or do a study to maintain that spring hinges are cheap compared to the barrel hinges. I've seen so many of the spring hinges break on glasses people had bought less than a year ago. They are demonstrably low quality.

99.999% of all sunglasses and prescriptive lenses are plastic. Glass lenses haven't been a thing in decades.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by smolder »

ponyous wrote: post #926
smolder wrote: post #872

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You can't imagine police departments that buy stingray devices and spy illegally with them to also pay for surveillance data? Anyway for real time tracking, police stations can likely get the feds involved which get that info from your telco, who are best buddies with the federal government.

Yeah... but I am not american, but from a tiny european country. Police makes some requests for data after the fact every year, but as far as I know there are no deals between police and giant american corporations. I'm probably naive.

Ah yes, sorry to assume.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by ponyous »

smolder wrote: post #963
ponyous wrote: post #926

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Yeah... but I am not american, but from a tiny european country. Police makes some requests for data after the fact every year, but as far as I know there are no deals between police and giant american corporations. I'm probably naive.

Ah yes, sorry to assume.

That's fair, we are on mostly American website after all!

I'm just traveling through France and saw on the news that a woman disappeared. They are trying to find her by triangulating the last location based on nearby cell towers of where she was last seen. So even giant European countries can't/don't use facebook/google to locate people.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by blagie »

boffinAudio wrote: post #959
blagie wrote: post #895

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> Its a universal human right, actually, to be able to record anything you can perceive in public ... No. It's not. Here: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma... If you believe something is a right, and most other people don't, it's definitely not a universal right. What is an established universal human right is: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, h…

The Right to Record is clearly protected under provisions of international human rights standards such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights that protect freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the right to information

You're making shit up. You posted the same comment in several places, and it's false. It's not helpful or constructive.

If you believe a law says something, quote it.

Right to expression doesn't cover this, under any non-crackpot interpretation. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights even has an explicit carve-out from right to expression for the rights or reputation of others to demonstrate which one takes precedence.

If you want to make up your own laws, please go register yourself as a "sovereign citizen," and wait until someone throws you in prison (and perhaps, then, realize it doesn't work that way).

I get you'd like this to be a right enshrined in law, but it's not, and it won't be, and it can't be.

Actually, better thing to do: Go to a Muslim country, start taking photos of strangers, and then waive your claims around. Let us know how that goes for you.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by CommitSyn »

sterlind wrote: post #534
CommitSyn wrote: post #461

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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?

In that case yes I believe I envisioned it differently than you. If the text is correctly sized and in a box that's always there, where you expect information to be and doesn't block your view, I don't think that would be distracting.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by pomfrit »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #460
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…

I’m pretty sure industrial processes are one of the only areas that smart glasses have achieved any real success, and for pretty much the reasons you’re describing here.

Do you know of any glasses that got adopted in an industry?
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