Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD? Pretty cool Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent? Downright creepy I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).
I wear my Meta glasses all the time and use them to record all the time. It's fine, you're already surrounded by people who brandish their phones to record everything.
As someone who does not wear these things; it is not fine.
Lol, if it was Apple announcing a similar prototype HN would be crazy and this thread would have 3000 comments already. But since it's meta, it's mostly negative.
There’s a good reason for that. Ad companies don’t get much love from HN.
This is cool from a technical standpoint, but ultimately just feels like another gimmick. This feels like it's doing stuff that I could do faster or better (and definitely, more safely) on a computer or phone. I don't personally see the appeal of hands-free as a paradigm in most cases. Do we really want people talking on and looking at Zoom as they walk around the office? Or as they drive? Or as they are out shopping…
I am one of the people who own and enjoy using an Apple Vision Pro. A year ago, my wife and I welcomed our daughter to the world. Having a device that can be interacted with hands-free and produces no outward light has been useful more than once in the last year. A front-facing camera pointing at the world around me lets me share my girl with family far away in a first-person POV. There are use cases beyond Zooming from a coffee shop for which devices like these are welcomed innovations and definitely appealing. And that doesn't even count that I just genuinely like working with my headset on at my desk. I'm a spatial thinker, so arranging things I need around me makes sense.
Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD? Pretty cool Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent? Downright creepy I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).
There's dozens of different styles of camera glasses available on Amazon today for a fraction of the price, with completely concealed cameras. I think that train left the station years ago.
Those are also creepy; it does not mean that it takes away the creepiness of this.
Glasses that offer you an AR experience / HUD? Pretty cool Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent? Downright creepy I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).
The world has changed a lot in the decade since Google Glass, the stigma around public recording of video is pretty much gone.
Not only that. I remember when spyware was considered as bad thing. Now every other page is asking you to by spied on like it is something normal.
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.
Showcasing a product where visual fidelity is the entire experience with embedded 12fps gifs is definitely a decision.
Looking at all the reactions from first time users, it really made me want to try those. Quite large and apparently under 100g (to compare, the average weight for prescription glasses is 20-40g). That being said, nothing compared to a Quest. I would use this just for being able to see avatars when I talk to someone (I already take my calls walking using the Meta glasses).
Why do you need, er want, to see an avatar while talking to someone while walking?
Being able to see their facial expressions and gestures. The usual reasons.