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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by cma »

Shalomboy wrote: post #48
wepple wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but can't do that yet because its not possible. Huh? Why not?

Because the central limitation is still mass; a friction-fit frame light enough to sit on your face all day without fatigue is the market expectation for eyewear, and devices generally require parts which weigh more than glasses.

They already exist. Glasses used to have heavy (at high prescription numbers) glass elements instead of plastic. HUD glasses can already fall in that weight envelope, with better weight distribution.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by fifilura »

fooker wrote: post #63
fifilura wrote: post #55

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I think of this as a baker at the nascence of bread-baking factories. Will you operate the bread baking machine, own a bread factory ($++) or make eco-handmade artisan bread ($--). Or do something completely different? Trade railway shares?

Clearly the answer is to announce that the baking frontier must slow down. ;) Bread baking factories could clearly destroy civilization as we know it, create incredible economic inequality, make a permanent underclass, etc etc.

I think you need to look beyond the job factor to see the real dangers of AI development.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by fooker »

fifilura wrote: post #92
fooker wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly the answer is to announce that the baking frontier must slow down. ;) Bread baking factories could clearly destroy civilization as we know it, create incredible economic inequality, make a permanent underclass, etc etc.

I think you need to look beyond the job factor to see the real dangers of AI development.

I think baking bread at scale will give everyone gluten issues.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

ssivark wrote: post #29
fidotron wrote: post #12

Both Apple and Google have dropped the ball enough with the state of recent releases that some iPhone-equivalent-disruption product from the AI industry is becoming conceivable, though I would be surprised if it turns out not to be running Android in some form. Putting a lot of effort into pushing complexity into software to reduce manufacturing complexity is precisely the sort of thing you worry about when you're ge…

The time is ripening to disrupt Android/iOS. The place to start would be to rethink the device around AI. No need for apps or messy integrations with third-party crap. Just a simple device with a great new UX (not typing on a touchpad!) that is slick and does a few things very well (personal agent, coordinating with your personal knowledge base, handling external communications and your interface with the world). Thi…

Be careful what you wish for, I can't imagine anything more dystopian than OpenAI owning all our devices.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by KaiserPro »

cma wrote: post #91
Shalomboy wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the central limitation is still mass; a friction-fit frame light enough to sit on your face all day without fatigue is the market expectation for eyewear, and devices generally require parts which weigh more than glasses.

They already exist. Glasses used to have heavy (at high prescription numbers) glass elements instead of plastic. HUD glasses can already fall in that weight envelope, with better weight distribution.

HUD sure, but they are dumb displays, with no useful machine perception services (ie world locked rendering.)

Basically you have about 130mw power budget. You need to do position, display, sound output, transcription, etc.

https://www.secretbatcave.co.uk/software/musing-on-openais-d... << an explanation here

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

dolmen wrote: post #16
tantalor wrote: post #4

That's an odd choice. I would have thought camera modules are commodity parts (have been for a long time) and there's not much margin there. Probably they are buying the staff, not the technology.

I'm just discovering Glass Imaging (a bit difficult as their website seems overloaded), but it seems they are in software solutions, not a hardware manufacturer or designer.

>but it seems they are in software solutions

Surely OpenAI can replicate that with their own tools in an afternoon and a few million tokens.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by cma »

KaiserPro wrote: post #96
cma wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They already exist. Glasses used to have heavy (at high prescription numbers) glass elements instead of plastic. HUD glasses can already fall in that weight envelope, with better weight distribution.

HUD sure, but they are dumb displays, with no useful machine perception services (ie world locked rendering.) Basically you have about 130mw power budget. You need to do position, display, sound output, transcription, etc. https://www.secretbatcave.co.uk/software/musing-on-openais-d... << an explanation here

World locked rendering isn't a requirement for smartglasses. Some existing ones in glasses for factor do have more limited visual positioning systems. In more obtrusive formfactors they have positioning suitable for world locked.

Re: OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

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Post by ryandrake »

thewebguyd wrote: post #76
macNchz wrote: post #52

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The idea of managing a consumer app API for which every client is auto-vibecoded to the user's preference sounds...fun. User: Hello Uber support? Yes, the app shows my driver is in the ocean off the west coast of Africa? And his ETA is -2147483648 minutes? Uber: Your app, your problem. User: Hello phonebrain, can you fix my Uber app? Phonebrain: You're absolutely right, I must have misunderstood the API docs. Squiggl…

And if it came to that, and that's how this OS worked, we'd see open APIs disappear real quick from all the popular services because of the support nightmare, and, services like Uber and others are going to want to maintain exclusivity with their first party app the moment vibe coding becomes that viable. APIs will get locked down, and we'll all be worse off for it. If an "AI Phone" looks to be an existential threat…

Tech companies already have a history of shutting down APIs as soon as someone actually uses the API to make something that users like better than the official applications. They don't need AI-written clients as an excuse.
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