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Post by Octoth0rpe »

TheDong wrote: post #245
Octoth0rpe wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> wannabe influencers holding up gopros on selfie sticks I think there's a huge difference in how one perceives these as a privacy/self-censoring risk. Yes, a bunch of tourists with their gopros might catch me in the background, but I think it's reasonable to assume that their intended target is themselves, and catching me in the background is incidental. If someone is recording with their glasses, basically by defin…

Holding a phone in front of your face in public is so normalized at this point that targeted recording is not a matter of hardware, but of someone wanting to do it. As you point out, most influencer-types aren't aimed at you. That generalizes pretty well, with or without glasses, no one cares about recording you, other than incidentally as part of the background If someone does want to target recording you, i.e. you'…

I think the angle that a phone is held at is a reliable determinant of intent. People look down at their phones to read the screen. People hold their phones up vertically to record. The difference seems immediately apparent to me.

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Post by ghaff »

SilverElfin wrote: post #240
aacook wrote: post #99

It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user. I bought these both in clear and sunglasses and I love them. I've recorded some of the most amazing videos of my baby with them. Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you — I've even done a few longer bike rides with them and…

These things have cameras and mics in them. Am I the only one concerned about people walking into every space with surveillance systems that are capturing us and sending that data to some random set of companies who have no obligation to keep our information confidential? How can I have a conversation with a friend wearing one of these? And surely workplaces will ban these?

> And surely workplaces will ban these?

For all but the most security-conscious companies, that ship has probably sailed. Bringing a camera into many companies used to be an exercise involving forms, approvals, and so forth. Now everyone has camera, video, and audio recording in their pocket.

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Post by stavros »

paxys wrote: post #9

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.

While I agree this is extremely impressive, when I'm out walking, I'm not going to be looking for a convenient flat surface I can rest my hand on so I can type a message. It seems useless in practice.

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Post by wkat4242 »

paxys wrote: post #252
wkat4242 wrote: post #246

I wonder if these are also available in prescription form? I imagine this would be harder due to the light guide in the lens

They are (only within +/- 4 though)

Oh that wouldn't be a problem but I would need astigmatism correction. They might not have that.

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Post by teleforce »

spot wrote: post #143
teleforce wrote: post #89

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> measured electromyography, or EEG Should be EMG, but is it normal EMG or sEMG?

surface!

Yes, it seems that the gesture detection is based on the raw time-frequency sEMG signals with data and code for model implementation from the Nature paper available here [1],[2].

[1] sEMG data:

https://fb-ctrl-oss.s3.amazonaws.com/generic-neuromotor-inte...

[2] Code for exploring surface electromyography (sEMG) data and training models associated with Reality Labs' paper:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/generic-neuromotor-inter...

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Post by Slow_Hand »

What is it with the Meta site disabling the back button on the browser?

I can understand why apps like Instagram - when used in the browser - wouldn't be compatible. But this product release page? What's going on here? Why?

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Post by hdjrudni »

llmthrow0827 wrote: post #113
wronglebowski wrote: post #22

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…

I dunno, if these worked perfectly I don't think it'd be awful to be able to open my fridge and say "what can I make with this" and it could rattle of some suggestions based on my known preferences and even show me images in their new display.

Hands-free while cooking (not having to touch my phone with messy hands) is not a bad thing either.

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Post by dmbche »

stavros wrote: post #248
dmbche wrote: post #208

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The ai is in the cloud Edit0: ie without internet access the ai is unable to produce an answer other than some prerecorded ones I guess In the live showcase the presenter even mentions that the wifi must have been bad for the ai to repeat the answer

You're saying "you've already used the first two ingredients, so go ahead and add the sauce" is the prerecorded response when it doesn't have a connection?

No, that's the last queried answer. There is no ai in the glasses without a connection, so all it (edit1:it here being the program being run on the glasses, client to the ai between other things)can do (seemingly) is loop around and re-read the last queried answer, which was the mistaken "you've already...".

In the glasses is just a client to the ai. Like there is no ai in your phone when you talk to chatgpt, you are querying it and it will not keep talking to you if you cut off the wifi

The prerecorded responses I speculated about would have been things like "i'm having some connectivity problems, I'm unable to chat at this time, I'll let you know when I'm back." - the same kind of prerecorded things your earbuds tell you when they're low on power.

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Post by jachee »

bitmasher9 wrote: post #244
paxys wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. Their brand problem doesn't extend much further than the HN comment section.

Instagram or WhatsApp are absolutely critical for daily functioning in certain circles of humanity.

Yeah, but facebook^WMeta didn’t develop those… they bought them to stifle competition.
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