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Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by Aeolun »

j5155 wrote: post #116
joshspankit wrote: post #92

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Not even an exception for user-entered data. Like, I could conceivably take photos of people I meet, store those photos along with notes in the iOS notes app (or even a contact app) then create a panel of those photos so that I can tap the right person and bring up those notes when I see them again. AR would simply make this easier and faster. Unless the AR camera was hidden it would not make it different from a priv…

To make things more confusing, both the iOS photos app and Google Photos automatically find faces in your photos and the other photos containing them and let you easily tag each face with the correct name. The technology to do this already exists.

It’s ok if they are the ones to do it. Safe old big tech. It’s not ok if these nefarious nerds with bad memories do it.

Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by major505 »

com2kid wrote: post #47

As someone with only 1 eye, this is quite suited to me! I am actually sad that the previous crop of "low cost, slim, not earth shattering" AR glasses all died out. A camera built into one stem and some simple text displayed for one eye would suffice for a ton of use cases. A killer app for me would be floating name tags above people's heads, but I imagine that would require better HW than what is available here. I'd…

Im blind in one eye also, and was thinking the same. But would certainly preffer the lenss to be a litle smaller. But for a first version, seens to have some potential.

Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by Aeolun »

tootie wrote: post #108
annon3845 wrote: post #46

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It's not much, but https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS . They're not exactly helping their credibility with claims of 16x superZoom from a 720p camera.

It seems to me that unlike HoloLens and such, it's not trying to be seamless. It's almost entirely obstructing one eye with a small screen. They use a translucent case so you can sorta see around the screen, but not very well. Kinda butts up against what the actual promise of AR was supposed to be.

To some extend. It would already be revolutional if they have an actual product instead of empty promises.

Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by harry8 »

UncleEntity wrote: post #104
breck wrote: post #97

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Patented products are strictly worse. Imagine Monocle engineers come up with a slightly better design, but they realize it's not covered by their patent. What will they do? As soon as one has a patent, then they are incentivized to sell their patented thing, not to switch to the thing that is better for their customers. Patents are a way for lawyers to inject themselves where they don't belong to extract rent, making…

> What will they do? File a new patent?

>> What will they do? >File a new patent?

Maybe. That has non-zero cost and if the patent office is doing its job the new thing may not be patentable because it is better and there is prior art etc. etc.

The original concern is valid w.r.t. patents in addition to the many, many other concerns surrounding how they are used nowadays and indeed how much BS there has always been since Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone idea from someone else at the patent office and then used patent enforcement to good effect. It is extremely widely believed around here that things are much worse with respect patents now.

"Patents encourage innovation" seems to have become an idea that marks one out as unbelievably naive. Or a lawyer.

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Post by thot_experiment »

skedaddle wrote: post #130
thot_experiment wrote: post #72

I want an open source monochrome vector display delivered by laser to my retinas directly. I would slambuy such a thing and dedicated the rest of my life to making the best pocketable chorded keyboard. I, like many of you, am very good at telling a computer what to do with letters and symbols. I spend a lot of time in voice calls and I often write little scripts while I'm talking to answer questions, ballpark numbers…

Dumb question maybe, but why does it need to be transparent or else projected directly into your eye? What doesn't work (or wouldn't work for you) about a flip-down hard backed display?

I want to keep situational awareness. I want to be able to interact with an ever present computer as second nature. I want it to be a seamless part of my life. Bicycle for the mind and all that.

Obviously a full color display that could overlay reality at will with a wide FoV would be better, but I think the monochrome vector laser thing is achievable today and for me personally would be invaluable.

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Post by birdyrooster »

lucb1e wrote: post #152

Is there a picture of this wearable being worn by someone, preferably with a resolution greater than 480x320 pixels at a distance where the torso is in view as well? I'm not uninterested, but at this price point, selling a ~400 euro device that I didn't know existed until 30 seconds ago takes a bit more convincing, especially with a gif showing 1.5x the original size and calling it 8x zoom. Seriously, the only two im…

The zoom says 16x and yes it looks like 1.5x, it's weird. Seems like a scam.

Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by birdyrooster »

ge96 wrote: post #153
lucb1e wrote: post #152

Is there a picture of this wearable being worn by someone, preferably with a resolution greater than 480x320 pixels at a distance where the torso is in view as well? I'm not uninterested, but at this price point, selling a ~400 euro device that I didn't know existed until 30 seconds ago takes a bit more convincing, especially with a gif showing 1.5x the original size and calling it 8x zoom. Seriously, the only two im…

from their discord https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974081732171137075/10...

Wow this is cursed looking, I am afraid I wouldn't be able to take it off

Re: Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

Miraste wrote: post #137
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #131

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Would glasses like yours work for passive monitoring of some basic tui dashboards while hiking? The ideal time for my personal daily commute/schedule to go on a 45 min daily hike/walk is 8am-9am. However at exactly that time some important automated business processes occur (markets related) that it’s best I keep an eye on. If I could wear some glasses that display the information required safely I probably could los…

Maybe. They'd work for monitoring the dashboards. I use Samsung DeX to get a full desktop environment, and if you set its desktop to black (transparent, in the glasses) you can set floating windows in your vision for any apps. I think newer versions of Android support a native desktop mode too. The hike part is the question: they resemble dark sunglasses with extra-thick frames so they do obscure the view a bit. Walk…

A smart watch approach is good suggestion. I should look into learning how to code such a thing. I have an apple watch but I’m guessing for a bespoke watch face dashboard it might be easier to do on another smart watch platform more friendly to a Linux developer.

The Nreal Airs are definitely interesting, thank you. Could work for the while doing dishes example mentioned in another comment.

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