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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by meindnoch »

Gracana wrote: post #52
Twirrim wrote: post #12

I know it's a prototype, but yikes those are large and goofy looking. Reminds me of the old 80's NHS glasses in the UK (which you could get for free if you couldn't afford otherwise). Or for those of you old enough, Brains from the old Supermarionation versions of the Thunderbird show ( https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article8451975.ec... )

Yup. My first thought was that they look like "BCGs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses

The GI on the Wikipedia page looks straight out of some 2010s urban fashion lookbook with these glasses.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by jazzyjackson »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #111
baby wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you get the opportunity to try the Meta glasses, you will quickly see that it's more than just a gimmick, and they don't even have any display

Orion is a see through device with screen. Something like Hololens.

Suppose they're referring to the Ray-Bans Wayfarers, no display, just front facing camera and audio

I thought it was very gimmicky, I tried taking lots of family photos but none of them were any good, between the vertical format and, you know, not being able to frame the shot. Also I never adapted to having an LLM in my ear (big network induced lag times didn't help), so ymmv

All I want are glasses that can tell me where I left my wallet but I don't think we'll see it this decade.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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wilg wrote: post #103

IMO, AR/VR remains mostly a software and UX problem, in that there's nothing particularly useful to do with it. Yes, you can keep improving the hardware, but you'd think we would have figured out something that is better enough in VR or AR on current hardware. Even gamers, who are notoriously interested in buying silly peripherals, care almost zero about VR gaming. Even with huge games like Half-Life: Alyx that are u…

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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by jerf »

baby wrote: post #83
fidotron wrote: post #61

Facebook get one step closer to blurring out real ads and overlaying them with FB ads. It is incredibly clever, and you have to respect the technology, but the endgame here is horrific.

It must not be fun to see every new technological improvement as a horrific thing

It isn't. I miss when I didn't have to examine every new device to see what data about me it's going to Hoover up to some mothership to see how it can manipulate me to do things against my interest.

But to the extent you're pitching it as some sort of reactionary lashing out against the bright glorious shining future... sorry. It's not me. It's tech. There has been a real change in the tech space. I used to just be able to take nearly for granted that tech is going to benefit me. Now I can't.

I phrased it as I did on purpose; to do things against my interest. If you are not actively guarding yourself against that, you're a victim of it, probably a great deal more than you realize. To ignore that aspect of tech is sheer foolishness and getting more dangerous by the year.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by edflsafoiewq »

The two "thumbnails" in the Featured News sidebar on this page are two 720p GIFs, totaling about 32MB. There is another 7MB GIF that I don't even see used anywhere. The result is 40 MB burned on peripheral junk and I never get to see how goofy the glasses look because the pictures in the main article never manage to load.

edit: Oh wait, they are actually animated WEBPs, just renamed to .gif.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by dylan604 »

baby wrote: post #83
fidotron wrote: post #61

Facebook get one step closer to blurring out real ads and overlaying them with FB ads. It is incredibly clever, and you have to respect the technology, but the endgame here is horrific.

It must not be fun to see every new technological improvement as a horrific thing

It's not that people can't see the potential, but the more likely of where this particular vendor will take things. Not being able to see the true intent behind marketing would be a horrific thing to me.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by tspike »

baby wrote: post #83
fidotron wrote: post #61

Facebook get one step closer to blurring out real ads and overlaying them with FB ads. It is incredibly clever, and you have to respect the technology, but the endgame here is horrific.

It must not be fun to see every new technological improvement as a horrific thing

Fun, no. Accurate, mostly.
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