Intel made smart glasses that look normal • Hacker News Board

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by nathan_long » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

jclardy wrote: post #10

y0ghur7_xxx wrote: post #3

This is actually something I would like to wear. It's like normal glasses, I am not recording videos of the people around me, and it could show me relevant information when needed without looking at my phone. I can think of a few use cases this could cover, in a very elegant way. The nice thing is, that they are completely "invisible" for other people around me.

I do think they are cool and could be useful, but not to the point of making someone that doesn't wear glasses want to wear them. My main problem is what does it give me over wearing a smart watch? The only thing I can think of is being slightly more discreet and the "gesture" not being rude to activate when you are in company. That is something I found out quickly when I started wearing an Apple Watch - even if you…

> you sit down at a desk with just a keyboard and mouse and your "displays" are only shown in your field of view - and you can customize, move and resize them as you wish

This. I don't wear glasses and don't like the idea of walking around with notifications floating around my eyes.

But a set of monitors that fill my field of vision and fit in my pocket sounds awesome.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by xedarius » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

They're waiting for you Gordon ... in the test chamber.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by temp987654 » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:26 PM UTC

Nope.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by erikj » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:26 PM UTC

I'm disappointed that "programming for Vaunt will involve JavaScript". We're stuck with this horribly designed language on the web because browsers don't run anything else (natively), and there is a strong trend in the field to replace it, either with compilation of saner languages to JS or with WebAssembly. We don't need to infect another nascent market with this atrocity, let it die.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by deadbunny » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

pi-squared wrote: post #9

Yeah, right - "no one will use it for every tweet notification, it will only provide contextual information" - it will be used for whatever people want to use it and we know what people want to use it for (porn).

Monochrome tiny porn?

Now you mention it, probably...

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by mynameisvlad » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:31 PM UTC

pi-squared wrote: post #9

Yeah, right - "no one will use it for every tweet notification, it will only provide contextual information" - it will be used for whatever people want to use it and we know what people want to use it for (porn).

It's a monochrome display. Pretty hard to use it for porn.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by icantdrive55 » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

They don't look like normal glasses--thank goodness.

I guess it's only a matter of time though.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

Paradoxically, the biggest selling point for me is that they're not produced by Google.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by xamuel » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:36 PM UTC

erikj wrote: post #14

I'm disappointed that "programming for Vaunt will involve JavaScript". We're stuck with this horribly designed language on the web because browsers don't run anything else (natively), and there is a strong trend in the field to replace it, either with compilation of saner languages to JS or with WebAssembly. We don't need to infect another nascent market with this atrocity, let it die.

ES5 was a trainwreck, but ES2015+ is actually a very good language, if you take the time to study it in depth.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by ddalex » Mon, Feb 05, 2018, 2:41 PM UTC

senectus1 wrote: post #4

give me a small ring on my finger to control it and I'll buy a pair.

Funny you should say that - when I was working @Intel I wrote a proposal for a Bluetooth Low Power ring that provide a simple input device for headless devices with 1 rotary input and one press input, sufficient to scroll and click on items.

Another proposal I had was a bracelet that would sense capacitance changes in the hand upon fingers touching each other; this way you could have a 12-key "keyboard" on the phalanges of the non-opposable fingers (3 phalanges x 4 fingers) touch-able by the thumb.

Such technologies would require minimal power input and provide good interaction with any headset; but at the time Intel were not interested in the research needed to build a prototype.