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I saw the keynote, and while everything about the glasses was more or less as expected, seeing Zuck easily navigate the interface and type 30 words per minute while barely moving his fingers was a true WTF moment. If they can actually make the neural interface work that well then Meta has won this round.
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There's no monopoly. You can buy identical glasses on the side of the street for $10. Except you aren't going to get the RayBan logo, and that's what people are paying for.
Technically not a monopoly but colloquially I disagree. They account for 30% of the global market. They own key brands, license key premium names, and control key distributors like sunglass hut and LensCrafters. Their cost to manufacture vs sale price shows a clear ability to price like a monopoly. As does their ability to box out competitors. The $10 look alikes are not identical. They generally are cheaper material…
I'm not sure I'll ever get over my concerns about making people around me uncomfortable to ever don one myself, but I hear the non-display ones are breakthrough assistive devices for impaired folks and this one might be too with the captioning. I wonder how the etiquette will evolve for people with legitimate needs to use them in polite company.
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"rebranding" takes more than saying "oh, now we are 'meta'" FB launched with great positive repetitional aura, but, at least to me, they have worn that away bit by bit over the years to the point where it becomes hard to earn back,.
> FB launched with great positive repetitional aura As a site that ranked how hot girls were?
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When I was at Meta (then facebook), people lived and died by the live demo creedo. Pitches can be spun, data is cherry picked. But the proof is always in the pudding. This is embarrassing for sure, but from the ashes of this failure we find the resolve to make the next version better.
why did they choose to air this live? For an internal team sure absolutely, but for public-facing work, prerecorded is the way to go
Their actual result was pretty bad, but, ya know, work in progress I guess.
This is beginning to mirror the evolution of the Smart Phone. The Apple Vision Pro is AR glasses at the Apple Newton evolutionary stage, an early smart PDA (Yes I'm the sucker that bought both at their respective launch, 3 decades apart). The Meta Ray-Ban Display is AR glasses at the Windows Mobile/Blackberry stage. Apple will likely swoop in and launch the final refined version of the AR glasses (thin, 8 hour batter…
Just in case someone is working on this type of thing. I will easily pay $1000 for an open source glasses thingy that has a monochrome laser display projecting directly onto my retina. IIRC Bosch and Intel have tried this before and the prototypes never went anywhere so there's probably a really good hardware reason why it's not happening but I want that more than any other hardware, it doesn't even have to be both e…
The live demo of this is brutal. https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055
All the VR/AR/XR demos are so insanely trivial and yet still manage to be much more difficult than current methods of doing things. Like, really, cooking? Normal method: * Search for a recipe * Leave my phone on a stand and glance at it if I forget a step Meta glasses: * Put glasses on (there's a reason I got lasek, it's because wearing glasses sucks) * Talk into the void, trying to figure out how to describe my prob…
Still no way to replace battery, so in 3 years tops this thing is e-waste.
That is also true of most smartphones. Smartphone batteries can be replaced, but specialty equipment and training is required. It's the same problem here, but much worse: they have to pack a significant amount of hardware into the space available. Even if they wanted to, it's unlikely that they could offer user-serviceable batteries.