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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by altairprime »

NobodyNada wrote: post #145
noman-land wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fascinating. So you know that you've met someone before. You know things about them. But you don't recognize them? What does this mean? You don't remember their name? You don't know why or how you know them?

(Not the parent, but I'm faceblind as well) The interaction described goes like this: "Hi there, I'm ABC, nice to meet you, what's your name" "...Huh? I'm XYZ. We've met before." "Oh right...sorry, I promise I remember you! We knew each other from there, and we've worked on this and that together, and etc. etc. etc. I'm just terrible with faces, I'm so sorry!" It's not "you know things about them without recognizing…

My aunt said tells neighbors/acquaintances to just introduce themselves by name every time when they start chatting with her, and reports great success with this — but my entire family is also rather 'take it or leave it' re: social stuff, so the people that don't introduce themselves don't get remembered, which seems perfectly fair.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by dylan604 »

jpalomaki wrote: post #150

Not sure if this is the future I want, but I've always thought the main idea of smart glasses is to automatically bring up information that is relevant in your current context. One part of this is to recognize who you are staring at.

It worked well for the Terminator, so why shouldn't it work for us too? Being able to identify target/foe is of course how this will be used.

However, I'd be much more inclined for the Black Mirror use of being able to block someone literally not just a number in your phone.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Cider9986 wrote: post #76
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #47

The company feels like the corporate embodiment of its founder.

HN was positive on him at one point. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157445 >I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre just shows tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part. It's great to see him be able to…

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Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by threwrfaway »

stebalien wrote: post #130
threwrfaway wrote: post #103

Start up idea: Ordinary glass (as in spectacles) frames that have a near IR LED on the bridge and on the side. PWM to be efficient, bright, but erratic clock of around 10Hz. Want a picture of me? Ask, or use film.

I expect cameras will start to come with built-in IR filters in that case.

If it's near IR, bright and erratic, enough will get through and it will mess up with the auto gain.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by cortesoft »

RobotToaster wrote: post #29

I wish something like this existed that was completely offline. I'm face blind (prosopagnosia) so being able to feed an offline database photos of friends so it can recognise them would be great. Accessibility shouldn't require giving up privacy.

This shouldn't be hard to do, facial recognition is pretty easy to run locally.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by bigbuppo »

simonw wrote: post #136

When Google Glass first released back in 2012 I was running a conference technology startup, and since we had a database full of speaker and attendee profile photos the obvious thing we could build with Glass would be a "your glasses help you spot the people you are planning to meet in a crowded room" app. The Google Glass developer terms strictly forbid building that, and it didn't take more than a few seconds of de…

Yeah, but Meta is the stalker that planted the bushes outside your house so they can have a place to hide while they're fapping as they're getting more data from you so they can... I mean, they don't know what they want to do with the data, but they have it. They also said they like the way you smell.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by yalogin »

This is terrible but inevitable for privacy. Meta is going to exploit this and hoard all the data all the while claiming they conform to all the laws of the land. I just wish this doesn’t take off but they are targeting sub $500 and it’s bound to get all the instagram influencers and heavy users to buy.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by cortesoft »

caturopath wrote: post #89
Gooblebrai wrote: post #41

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Sorry that you have to deal with this condition. What method do you use currently to help with recognising them?

Like the poster, I'm faceblind. It isn't the worst thing: I'm not voice blind, height blind, age blind, hairstyle blind, gender blind, features associated with race and ethnicity blind, attractiveness blind, affect blind, context blind, etc., so I'm mostly good at figuring out who someone is. Within one encounter with a bunch of people, I try to note what someone is wearing. Every once in a while I don't recognize so…

It's funny because I am the opposite. I can easily recognize a face, but if you asked me things like hair color or what they were wearing, I likely would be unable to answer.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by crowbahr »

bobmcnamara wrote: post #119
cbarrick wrote: post #90

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> $5,000 per violation if the violation is intentional or reckless.

5kilobuxx, barely a tax.

How many biometrics per minute can every glass in Chicago collect, each one costing 5k? It's not per biometric, it's per violation. Collecting the same face 20x is 20 infractions.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by Stagnant »

RobotToaster wrote: post #29

I wish something like this existed that was completely offline. I'm face blind (prosopagnosia) so being able to feed an offline database photos of friends so it can recognise them would be great. Accessibility shouldn't require giving up privacy.

What ever model digiKam is using for face detection seems to be very accurate in my experience. It is open source and works fully offline.
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