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I think people present day do not understand how to really use AI.. understand how it can benefit their life. The commercial the OP speaks and the ad agency sounds lame as they arent helping. Personally Ive been enjoying wearing my Ray Bans for the past year and have used them to do things no other glasses can like... - Translate.... was in Canada recently and a sign about Jasper the town i was in was in French. I as…
As with the Apple ads, I remain unconvinced these are benefits. Translation, yes, but your last two examples feel oddly isolating and dehumanizing. Like, estimating the number of people in a line is a trivial task, and something fun to discuss and argue about with your friends! If your friend had the glasses to, do you think it would have come up in conversation at all or would they just ask theirs? I dunno, I'm pict…
We all use Google to find knowledge/answers but most are not pulling out our phones during conversations cause that's rude. Yet it's not rude to get the answer from your glasses you are wearing on your face and still present in the conversation your having as well people will think wow that's cool (per my experience).
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Yesterday I was walking in Greece and saw a sign I couldn't read so asked my Meta glasses and it gave me a translation and short explanation quickly, which was very helpful. But generally, yes the uses aren't there. In the Apple AI video, the worst is that the 'more professional' text, actually reads much less professional. If someone in a business situation sends you an AI generated email (and it's obviously AI it's…
> Yesterday I was walking in Greece and saw a sign I couldn't read so asked my Meta glasses and it gave me a translation and short explanation quickly, which was very helpful. Like other attempts at AI wearables like the Rabbit and Humane pins, I think that falls under "maybe useful but why wouldn't I just do the same thing with the phone that I'm carrying anyway".
- Half of what people use the Web for is looking up trivia that would have been too high-cost to look up before, to bother with (most of the other half is posting on social media about it). Glasses further lower the cost of looking up many categories of trivia, making even more trivial pieces of knowledge cheap enough to look up. On a revealed-preference basis, this seems to be something people really like and find irritating when denied—nobody used to feel an itch when they couldn't find an answer to some fleeting trivial question that entered their mind. Once exposed to the Web, and even more so when smartphones were introduced and the Web became something you carried everywhere, they do, and it'll be the same for answering questions about stuff they're looking at, once used to glasses.
- The use case of capturing otherwise-missed (getting out the phone is too slow) fleeting once-ever moments is going to be very compelling for people.
I think this is mostly just a problem of not having good reasons to sell AI products to consumers in the first place. I recently saw some Ray Ban Meta glasses ads. One of them had a guy ask the glasses to describe what was in front of his face, and then he remarked “wow that’s accurate” (there are people skateboarding). The guy wasn’t blind. His use of the glasses made little sense. Another ad has a young man asking…
If I try to watch a technical review on a smartphone, they’ll still talk about camera megapixels, screen size/brightness, corners, etc. No one talks about scroll sensitivity and jankiness, [bad] position of buttons on screen and on the frame, sensor nuances, how it feels in a pocket, can it work as a display, notification sounds and sound level separation, etc.
All marketing, including third-party based, focuses on absolutely basic features for abstract people who do nothing and have no problems to solve apart from taking pics of themselves and other two-digit iq activities. I guess it’s only logical for this image to walk into a skate park and ask their glasses about what these guys are doing.
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I think people present day do not understand how to really use AI.. understand how it can benefit their life. The commercial the OP speaks and the ad agency sounds lame as they arent helping. Personally Ive been enjoying wearing my Ray Bans for the past year and have used them to do things no other glasses can like... - Translate.... was in Canada recently and a sign about Jasper the town i was in was in French. I as…
Are those glasses with camera always on sticking it into other people's faces, just like before Google glass had it? That's an idiotic toy to use among other people, and I am keeping things polite here. Unless you ask each of them if its OK they will be recorded and evaluated by Meta company (and who knows who else). Your convenience stops right where rights of me and my family starts. Bring it next to any small kids…
I could care less about other people I do not know I am using the glasses to capture my life (not theirs) and for
- Sunglasses
- To listen to music and take phone calls
- To take pics and videos of what Im experiencing in my life not others
- To enhance my conversations as pulling out my phone is rude to get the answer in a social conversation .. using my glasses no one has said anything rather thinking it's cool
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Well, it is the year of Linux on the desktop.
Remarkable then, how that entire advertisement managed to not mention Linux once in its entire 85 seconds of runtime.
I think this is mostly just a problem of not having good reasons to sell AI products to consumers in the first place. I recently saw some Ray Ban Meta glasses ads. One of them had a guy ask the glasses to describe what was in front of his face, and then he remarked “wow that’s accurate” (there are people skateboarding). The guy wasn’t blind. His use of the glasses made little sense. Another ad has a young man asking…
> mostly just a problem of not having good reasons I disagree, I think this is bad ethics, and bad marketing people, working for Apple...what other explanation - same people crushed musical instruments and books, human craft-work -- using a hydraulic press, in a recent Apple advert. Advertising certainly can show outrageous ways to behave, and it's "okay". Calling someone and simply shouting WAZZZAAAAAAP! into the ce…
Signaling through speaking will become even more important. Get thy children to debate club, seminar-based classes (hope you're rich!), theater, and hell, I dunno, ToastMasters Junior or whatever.
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Are those glasses with camera always on sticking it into other people's faces, just like before Google glass had it? That's an idiotic toy to use among other people, and I am keeping things polite here. Unless you ask each of them if its OK they will be recorded and evaluated by Meta company (and who knows who else). Your convenience stops right where rights of me and my family starts. Bring it next to any small kids…
The privacy issue in time Im sure Meta and or Apple will figure out (i have some ideas to fix that) .. they need to cause that's half of peoples reaction to them while the other half dont care. I could care less about other people I do not know I am using the glasses to capture my life (not theirs) and for - Sunglasses - To listen to music and take phone calls - To take pics and videos of what Im experiencing in my l…
They don't need to figure it out, they just have to wait.
People holding their camera phones up everywhere and (maybe! You can't know for sure!) recording stuff used to be off-putting in about the same way, but we got over it within a few years. Ditto various other socially-shitty things, like talking on a phone in public or using nearly-invisible earbuds that make it hard for people to tell where your attention is or even notice that it might be somewhere else.
I kinda wish we hadn't gotten over those things, but we did, and having watched it happen a few times I'm sure we will again for this.
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Yesterday I was walking in Greece and saw a sign I couldn't read so asked my Meta glasses and it gave me a translation and short explanation quickly, which was very helpful. But generally, yes the uses aren't there. In the Apple AI video, the worst is that the 'more professional' text, actually reads much less professional. If someone in a business situation sends you an AI generated email (and it's obviously AI it's…
Well as someone that only has a passable knowledge of Greek, my phone has been doing that since at least 5 years now. Yes AI algorithms are behind it, but hardly something new to brag about in 2024.
Yes, Google Translate has been able to do this for a while now, but I still find the experience very yanky and high friction so that I don't do it on a whim, usually.
Everything-translating AR glasses would have been something I'd have really appreciated on a trip to Japan, for example.
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Honestly I wouldn’t hesitate to steal and break any meta ray bands I see on the street in real life. I don’t want to see that creepy always recording without permission kind of shit normalised.
Do you steal and break people's phones? Not trying to be snarky, I think I very much understand your reaction to this constantly monitored and surveilled world we're in. I think it's arguable that these types of glasses will make it worse too. But people are recording without permission on their phones since several years now - what has been your reaction there? I'm not a very confrontational person, so I tend to gru…