This will be the most useful for high school kids cheating at tests :D
Intel made smart glasses that look normal
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#142I think there's definitely a market for endurance athletes. Runners and cyclists would like to see time, speed, distance, cadence, power output, navigation, etc without having to look down at a wristwatch or bike computer. Those people are accustomed to spending a lot on sports equipment. There are existing products like the Everysight Raptor and Garmin Varia View but they're bulky or goofy looking or obstruct vision…
I think cyclists would need it more than runners, but cyclists are too small of a market to be worth the r&d cost. That's why current offerings are bad. Cyclist-oriented tech has to piggy back on more popular tech, the way bike lights got a LOT better very quickly after smart phones started pushing li-ion tech.
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#143Despite all the negativity around Google Glasses' camera, that was actually the best feature. You could really capture some great moments directly from your eye's perspective at the wink of an eye. My mother recently passed and out of all the photos and videos, my favorite was a 10 second video of me handing her flowers shot from Google Glasses. It looks like she's staring right back into my soul. I have a three mont…
Except Google Clip is like the camera in the movie "The Circle" and is a rabbid privacy violation. The discontent with Google Glasses was likely because it was ahead of its time.
I'm not familiar with that movie, but how does Google Clips violate your privacy? As far as I understand, everything is local on the Clips device (including the AI). You can view pictures on your phone and choose the ones to save.
This is completely different from a device like Echo which sends your voice (and everything it hears in the background) to Amazon for processing.
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#144"holographic grading" should really be "holographic grating".
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm pretty sure humanity is already past the point where this question is timely. We have many cameras watching us all day long and ten years from now there will be even more. Really? Do you have cameras looking at you all day at work? Or at home, while interacting with your family? I hope not. I also hope that you'd object to any attempts to put such a device. It's true that society by and large accepts CCTV camer…
> Do you have cameras looking at you all day at work? Anyone who works in an office complex does. Anyone who works in a retail store does. Bus drivers have cameras recording the entire time the bus engine is on. Aside from a farmer in a field, I'm hard pressed to think of a job that doesn't take place under a security camera. Taxi Driver, delivery agents, street food vendors, and people who work at home remotely.
> Anyone who works in an office complex does.
My office is full of cameras.
None of them are pointed at my workspace.
It's the difference between having the street full of cameras, and having them pointed at my living room window.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>Dig in. Share specific thoughts or concerns you have. Help move the conversation in a constructive direction. I have, most substantive comments get higher levels of down votes so why bother. HN has become a echo chamber and if you push to hard against the echo chamber you just get banned.
Yeah, I can imagine that's frustrating. Is it something you actually want to take some action on? Do you want to help make HN a better place? Please don't take that as accusatory: it takes effort to be constructive, and each person has to make a decision whether or not that's worth the effort. If it's not (or perhaps at least not right now), it may not worth commenting at all: as you say, your comments have been attr…
My biggest problem with HN commenting is the rate limiting, if you get too many down votes other people can respond but you are barred from responding, any attempt get met with "you are posting to fast"
I honestly do not care about the down voting, I do care about being silenced... That is what is frustrating to not be able to respond to people. I understand the rationality behind the rate limiting but personally I find it to be an affront to free speech.
HN actively works against controversial conversations and promotes the echo chamber by the way the moderate and implement commenting.
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#147I don't see the point of these overpriced smartwatches and glasses that can barely do one thing (display notifications), but I want my future full AR/VR glasses, so I'm glad the early adopters pay for it. Right now, what I'd want is a very simple, slim, long-lasting watch that would notify me of emails, messages, phone calls and notifications based on their origin (business account, work account, personal, random). I…
There exist a lot of display-less smartwatches out there, I found this list which is mostly that [1]. Often they use the hands of the watch to display extra data and have very long lasting batteries.
[1]https://www.wareable.com/smartwatches/best-smart-analogue-wa...
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#148I think there's definitely a market for endurance athletes. Runners and cyclists would like to see time, speed, distance, cadence, power output, navigation, etc without having to look down at a wristwatch or bike computer. Those people are accustomed to spending a lot on sports equipment. There are existing products like the Everysight Raptor and Garmin Varia View but they're bulky or goofy looking or obstruct vision…
I agree in general that it would be useful in these situations.
As someone who wears glasses, I find it impossible to run with them because of the movement or them just falling off. Are people who wear glasses able to run with them - am I doing something wrong?
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#149This 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'm curious if the position of the "Vaunt display" will feel similar to Google Glass.
From the article:
>> It projects a rectangle of red text and icons down in the lower right of your visual field. But when I wasn’t glancing down in that direction, the display wasn’t there. My first thought was that the frames were misaligned.
The HUD in Google Glass was also outside of your normal field of view and for certain things this was a poor experience. For example, using Google maps integration I felt like I was taking my eyes off the road and felt safer simply using my smartphone mounted to my windshield.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure why this comment is being downvoted - seems like a perfectly valid concern, particularly if you've read Rainbows End by Verner Vinge
Most people on HN believe that technology will only ever improve society, with very limited negative effects that can be mitigated or eliminated with more technology. Over all they see any negative effects (both current and future) caused by technological advancement to be a technological problem that can be eliminated In their minds the dystopian worlds depicted in scifi and fantasy just simply can not happen, "we w…