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Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by d0lph »

klibertp wrote: post #77
nathan_long wrote: post #11

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> 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.

From what I understand (I'd love to be wrong here) we have currently no AR or VR technology which could conceivably be used to work with a lot of text. The resolution is not there and it's possible that it won't ever be. Which is a damn shame, because I'd sell my kidney for the ability to work with two decently sized (virtual) displays from my couch or in the garden...

I'm intrigued by the 'possibly never will be' part, any references or reading on that?

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by shpx »

maltalex wrote: post #49
pavel_lishin wrote: post #42

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Yup, another father here: I'd love an always-on camera that I can tell to save the last 30 seconds of playback. There are a lot of moments I'd love to have on video or camera that are there-and-gone - even if I had my phone in my pocket, by the time I pulled it out, it would be too late.

Would you love that camera if it was pointed at you? The trade-off between the convenience of having an always-on camera and living in a society in which everyone has an always-on cameras seems like a no-brainer to me. There's even a Black Mirror episode like that - "The Entire History of You".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by khedoros1 »

com2kid wrote: post #120
maltalex wrote: post #105

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> 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.

Maybe change that to "many people"; "anyone" isn't accurate. For example, at my workplace, there are security cameras at a couple of the doors, but none in the office itself. I don't think I'd stay long if there were a bunch of cameras here.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by Nition »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #73

I want these, and then I want an app on them that will tell me if the person standing directly in front of me is on my LinkedIn/Facebook, and if so, what their name is and what they do.

Unfortunately as the other reply says, there's no camera to see who's there. But as someone who's bad with names I generally agree, in fact I don't even need the Internet connectivity. Just let me write a note on someone - "John Smith. Met at Steve's BBQ" - and have it show up when the camera sees them again.

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Post by remir »

tomtoise wrote: post #86
marcus_holmes wrote: post #73

I want these, and then I want an app on them that will tell me if the person standing directly in front of me is on my LinkedIn/Facebook, and if so, what their name is and what they do.

That'd be quite the technological feat considering they don't currently have cameras built in.

The Facebook app already know where you are. If both you and the other person have the Fb app, then I'm sure this feature could be implemented relatively easily.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by briandear »

dsfyu404ed wrote: post #89
gpm wrote: post #72

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That camera is already pointed at me, via security cameras, strangers cell phones, etc. This just makes the situation symmetric. So yes, I would be fine with that.

No all of us live in the UK or some city that has cameras everywhere. Private CCTV footage and most government footage not part of a dragnet collection program is usually discarded after a few weeks or months if it's not needed. Cell phones are not always on. I agree that everything being recorded all the time is somewhat inevitable considering the way things are going. While this does make the situation symmetric to…

> No all of us live in the UK or some city that has cameras everywhere.

For now. The UK wasn't always covered in surveillance either.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by grzm »

syshum wrote: post #146
grzm wrote: post #135

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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 f…

I'll sign off after this, as it's not clear to me whether I'm being effective.

I'm going to take a step back and look at the behavior you're describing. I'm going to use as a starting point that the moderators penalize behavior, not position.†

* Member begins commenting in a way that's unconstructive.

* Mods rate-limit the member, in an effort to limit the opportunities the member has to continue to post unconstructively.

* Member feels this is limiting their ability to respond.

It is limiting the member's ability to respond, but the member has shown that they're responses aren't, on balance, constructive. They aren't completely banned from responding, and in your case, you're aware you're rate-limited. That should make each comment you can post more valuable to you, and an opportunity to take extra care in each comment you post. It's human nature to react negatively to restrictions, so I can understand it's frustrating.

However, it's frustrating to many members who do mostly follow the guidelines and post in the spirit of the sight to have conversations degrade due to repeated behavior of a minority of members. You acknowledge the rationality behind rate limiting, and feel frustrated when it's applied to you. That's human nature, and understandable as well. It's on all of us to work against our more destructive tendencies, and help each other in doing so. "Better angels of our nature", and all that. (That's why I'm taking the time to write these comments, by the way.)

And the mods do lift rate limits. It doesn't need to be a permanent condition. Contact them via the contact link in the footer and see if there's something you can do. I encourage you to do so.

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† If you don't subscribe to this, I think your options are to limit your discussions to non-contentious topics, or to stop commenting all together. You're unlikely to change how the mods moderate HN by behaving in a way they consider destructive. Continuing to comment in ways you're aware are against the guidelines or you believe the mods are going to react poorly to is very likely going to get you banned eventually, with frustration all around.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by nradov »

QasimK wrote: post #148
nradov wrote: post #112

I 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?

A lot of runners wear sunglasses, sometimes with prescription lenses. Talk to your optometrist. Everyone has a unique head shape so you might have to try several pairs until you find one that stays in place.

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Post by seangrogg »

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.

The entire existing JS ecosystem can be leveraged for Vaunt, to include TypeScript/Flow/whatever else. They are target agnostic.
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