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Re: Cooking with glasses

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Post by etothepii »

> My outsider view is that there are more people and more volume of crypto involved in the speculative & scam sector than in the human-rights sector, but I'm willing to be wrong.

I would assume this is true, but is it the right metric?

Would it be ok if it was 51:49? If $1m of crypto lets 100 Russian dissidents get out of Russia does it matter that there are $10b of pump and dump schemes? What if it's only $10m? What if its grannies having their life savings scalped? This feels like trolley problems all the way down.

Re: Cooking with glasses

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Post by utopiah »

PetitPrince wrote: post #6
utopiah wrote: post #4

I have a dozen VR headsets, more of them doing passthrough, I have AR glasses and even a monocle. I prototype in the field. The technology is amazing... but you don't need it to get value. Bring your tablet to the kitchen, add a webcam if you want to try to get visual feedback, display the recipe and... just cook. I think there is a big gap between : - how messy the World is (imagine a "normal" kitchen, not a prop fo…

I agree with the general vibe of your post but let me make a tangeant: > I always think of my Roomba in this kind of situation, namely when one tries to imagine a future where tech works outside of the computer. Basically my little vacuum robot mostly sits idling in the corner because... a basic broom or a normal vacuum cleaner is radically more efficient, even if it means I have to do so myself. For me the whole val…

> the whole value of a robot vacuum is that... I don't vacuum, the robot does, and when it does so it when I'm not at home.

I agree, that's indeed the value proposition and that's in fact why I got mine... but do you really "just" do that, namely turn it on (or automatically with scheduling) or rather do you

- very it's charged (because sometimes it doesn't actually get right on its station)

- verify its empty or that its bin isn't full

- remove chairs and cables

then and only then start it?

I had just a few couple of "bad" experiences when it got stuck on something just a few centimeters of the floor or (and that one really sucks) cables entangled inside to reconsider how "worry free" letting it roam without supervision was. I don't have pets but if I did the poop smearing videos would also scare me quite a bit.

Re: Cooking with glasses

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

coffeefirst wrote: post #8
unsnap_biceps wrote: post #3

Like for example: I don't know, sometimes I'm cooking for my partner. Do they hear a one-sided conversation between me and the "Live AI" about what to do first, how to combine the ingredients? Without the staged demo's video-casting, this would have been the demo: a celebrity chef talking to himself like a lunatic, asking how to start. I think this is one of those things that society just adapts to. Some people will…

That’s fine. I cook. I’ve got my AirPods in listening to music and talk to an iPad with my recipe on it to set timers and the like. And sometimes I talk to my Dutch oven because it has feelings. Voice control makes a lot of sense in cooking because my hands are messy. I’m just not sure what the glasses are for that could be fun or helpful while cooking. The demo video is… amusing but also wrong, because you’d need to…

I tried cooking with a Vision Pro. It was nice to throw up the recipe above the prep area, hovering, so I could prep and check off without messing up a book or print a copy just for single use.

I also liked throwing up a timer above each pot so it was simple to glance at the stove and see how long each pot had on it.

But the Vision Pro is bulky, hot, and heavy. I wouldn't try it again. I could imagine giving it another go with glasses, but I wouldn't be using the AI part of it.

Re: Cooking with glasses

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Post by PetitPrince »

utopiah wrote: post #13
PetitPrince wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with the general vibe of your post but let me make a tangeant: > I always think of my Roomba in this kind of situation, namely when one tries to imagine a future where tech works outside of the computer. Basically my little vacuum robot mostly sits idling in the corner because... a basic broom or a normal vacuum cleaner is radically more efficient, even if it means I have to do so myself. For me the whole val…

> the whole value of a robot vacuum is that... I don't vacuum, the robot does, and when it does so it when I'm not at home. I agree, that's indeed the value proposition and that's in fact why I got mine... but do you really "just" do that, namely turn it on (or automatically with scheduling) or rather do you - very it's charged (because sometimes it doesn't actually get right on its station) - verify its empty or tha…

I see where you're coming from, because my robot tends to eat the cats toy as well as my computer charger cable. In my case the prep is minimal, as it's just putting them on the sofa. Otherwise the robot has no problem charging and returning home, (I only had issue 3 times in 5 years ?). Concerning the bin I have pets so in my mind I have to empty the bin after each run. But psychologically I see tons of hair so in a way it's satisfying to see a job well done. The pets are fortunately well behaved so poop smearing is a non-issue (some more recent robot also have object detection to avoid this kind of stuff).

In any case, the ritual is to run it every odd day or so just before leaving for work so the mental burden is low.

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