Facebook get one step closer to blurring out real ads and overlaying them with FB ads.
It is incredibly clever, and you have to respect the technology, but the endgame here is horrific.
Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#62A few major elements to this that I'm really interested in: 1. wireless data transfer and how that affects the performance 2. EMG: this is alright, but seems to be a bit overhyped 3. MicroLED: clearly the best display technology available, but how close is color display to consumer price levels? 4. silicon carbide: great material, interested in seeing it at scale 5. magnesium frame: super awesome to see this being pu…
For #4, I don’t think scaling should be a major issue as the tooling industry has been manufacturing at scale for decades now. The only real difference is the customer
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#63Looking at the example I immediately thought of warehouse staff. AI knows what the thing is and where it is to go. Human is a machine to put it there. Humans as an extension of AI. Welcome to the future
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#64This is the form factor that I always wanted from HoloLens (which I own). The release is very light on details of field of view and resolution (other than "best ever" puffery), that's where we'll get a better sense of actual use cases. The ball game shown looked very rudimentary in terms of only taking place in a small directly-in-front-of-user sense. This is also where HoloLens games fell flat -- you'd turn your hea…
apparently they did something weird with the glasses to bend the light and increase your FOV, I'm not sure what that means but it looks intriguing.
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#65Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD? Pretty cool Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent? Downright creepy I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).
If they do it like their current Ray Ban glasses, there's an LED on the front that lights up when it's recording. People will no doubt disable it though.
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#66some interesting bits from the Verge article:
> Micro LED projectors inside the frame that beam graphics in front of your eyes via waveguides in the lenses
> [requires] wireless compute puck that resembles a large battery pack for a phone
> [glasses weigh] 98 grams
> the battery only lasts about two hour
> Orion was supposed to be a product you could buy.
> $10,000 per unit [to build]
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#67Decent hands on article from the verge with more info https://www.theverge.com/24253908/meta-orion-ar-glasses-demo... Wireless compute puck. 70 degree FOV. Resolution high enough to read text. Wrist band detects hand gestures and will be used in another product.
the wristband reminds me of the Myo armband, this thing you could wear to control a computer
did meta buy them out?
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#68Still kinda dorky looking but 10x better than what Snap unveiled last week.[^1] Software looks miles ahead of the AR glasses competition as well. Nice job FB engineers...keep cooking! [^1]: https://www.spectacles.com/
I was going to say that Snap's offering was probably cheaper or designed for mass marketing because their page looks like something you could actually buy.
But that isn't the case! Snap will only rent them to you at $1200/year [0], can't imagine what the BOM is like for either of these products.
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#69I know it's a prototype, but yikes those are large and goofy looking. Reminds me of the old 80's NHS glasses in the UK (which you could get for free if you couldn't afford otherwise). Or for those of you old enough, Brains from the old Supermarionation versions of the Thunderbird show ( https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article8451975.ec... )
Yup. My first thought was that they look like "BCGs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses
The 60s-era designs don't look all that different from some of the fairly popular current Warby Parker designs.
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#70Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD? Pretty cool Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent? Downright creepy I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).
The world has changed a lot in the decade since Google Glass, the stigma around public recording of video is pretty much gone.