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Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

tyre wrote: post #15

Look like a great idea and technological advancement, but the biggest thing holding back Google Glass is not that it lacks feature X. Glass will be held back because most people don't want to look like geeks. Meta's next design looks like it's from an 80's Sci-Fi movie. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but there is no way I could take someone seriously wearing those things.

Completely agree, their next iteration looks better but I just don't see most people wearing them. I honestly don't think this technology is going to become ubiquitous until and if somebody manages to get past the issues of getting it onto a contact lens.

I'd even go as far as saying the current efforts might be a bad thing for that possibility, if it is even possible, since we might just end up with a patent encumbered wasteland by the time the technology's there.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by cbr »

coffeemug wrote: post #43

The concept video looks awesome . A few weeks ago I went hiking and thought to myself "wouldn't it be great if Google Glass had an app that showed me information about the flora and fauna I'm seeing? Oh wait, it can't yet." It looks like Meta might be able to. When looking at new technologies there are always two questions: is it worth doing and can it be done. The answer to the former is obvious here. I don't know n…

    wouldn't it be great if Google Glass had an app that
    showed me information about the flora and fauna I'm
    seeing? Oh wait, it can't yet
I think Glass could do this, but not as an overlay.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by EGreg »

Are they already out?

Some of the people here saying Meta Glasses look geeky are missing the point. They can be used at work in a myriad different ways

* previewing 3d printings can be one of them, with Tony Stark-type visualizations more generally

* collaborative games in offices around the world after work, where you can do things like fire projectiles or see the same objects or stats only if you have the glasses on

* metainformation overlaid for visitors to museums etc.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by jrockway »

smtddr wrote: post #62
jrockway wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The way people feel about a device that may or may not be recording them at any given moment. It's pretty difficult to go out in public without being recorded. Security cameras are ubiquitous.

True, but people feel different about an individual they may or may not know recording them versus a security camera at the Bank. All it will take is one melodramatic FOX-News piece on TV connecting Glass to cyber-bullies or crime or some other ThinkOfTheChildren/terrorist nonsense and a bunch of people will freak out. I don't want it to happen, but I know it will and suddenly Google will have to explain how it's "Ke…

If we have HN-users who already feel like they need to "protect themselves" against Glass, the general public would be whipped into a frenzy by one FOXNews report.

I don't think this is true. There is already "revenge porn" and upskirt shots from cell phones. Nobody has suggested banning cell phone cameras, or even complained about it in any serious way. (Remeber that law that would require camera phones to always make a noise? How did that go? http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show. Out of 435 potentially paranoid Fox-News-loving representatives, he could get no other sponsor.)

I think the whole Glass camera thing is just people trying to rationalize their intrinsic dislike for the thing. (It's new. It looks like glasses. I got made fun of for wearing glasses when I was a kid. They are intrinsically weird.) You can already surreptitiously record pretty much anything that happens in public, and people upload the result to Facebook and YouTube regularly.

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Post by FrankenPC »

"You need hungry, imaginative and foolish people in their 20s to do this, and we have that" --Article about Meta from USAToday

F'k you ageists... Notice how they need the old guy who invented the AR concept (Steve Feiner) to give them any credibility.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by losethos »

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Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by aray »

I'm curious how far away the display visually renders? Do you have to focus on very close objects to see it sharply (and then can't focus on faraway objects)? Does it rest in a medium-ish focal zone (10-30 ft?)?

I'd love a AR display, but I'm incredulous if it forces me to take my focus off of anything else.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by msutherl »

ehsanu1 wrote: post #67
pud wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That video of the Reddit co-founder struggling to use the product & struggling to say something good about it made me cringe a little. They should work on a better testimonial video.

You make it sound worse than it is. Maybe it's just me, but he seemed to have some positive things to say during the actual demo. Just seems slightly staged at the end there is all. As for struggling to use the app, we don't all expect an early prototype + third-party app to have perfect usability. Of course, this testimonial pales in comparison to, say, the Oculus Rift kickstarter video. But that product was further…

The real kicker is how deluded the founders are about their idea. The sculpting app, for instance, is an awful idea. Sculpting in air doesn't work – it's a fundamental limitation of the model – there's no tactile or force feedback – not something that will improve with the technology. Demoing with this app shows they don't understand the nature of the technology they're developing. I would give them a pass, but, later on in the video, the guy with the beard says "so you can imagine a surface on every wall, like Gmail, Facebook, or whatever". This not only unimaginative, but wrongheaded. A moments thought reveals that this idea makes no sense.

This video is brogrammer culture at its worst.

Re: Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

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Post by jcrites »

msutherl wrote: post #89
ehsanu1 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make it sound worse than it is. Maybe it's just me, but he seemed to have some positive things to say during the actual demo. Just seems slightly staged at the end there is all. As for struggling to use the app, we don't all expect an early prototype + third-party app to have perfect usability. Of course, this testimonial pales in comparison to, say, the Oculus Rift kickstarter video. But that product was further…

The real kicker is how deluded the founders are about their idea. The sculpting app, for instance, is an awful idea. Sculpting in air doesn't work – it's a fundamental limitation of the model – there's no tactile or force feedback – not something that will improve with the technology. Demoing with this app shows they don't understand the nature of the technology they're developing. I would give them a pass, but, late…

There are technologies being developed to simulate a feeling of touch in the air: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/21/siggraph-disney-research-...

"AIREAL pumps out tight vortices of air to simulate tactility in three dimensional space. The idea is to give touchless experiences like motion control a form of physical interaction, offering the end user a more natural response through, well, touch."

It looks like Aireal can only create a pulsing sensation, which will still be insufficient for sculpting, and I imagine it is a weak sensation in the first place, but I am still interested to see how these technologies improve over time.

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