I notice the gesture armband in the last product photo, great way to offload some of the sensing of the device.
Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
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#192Glasses 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).
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#193It’s a cool concept, I do like the idea of something like this as a sort of hud for some tasks
I also wanted that from HoloLens and hololens2 which I worked with for a bit but both of those were just painful for me to use and I wasn’t a fan of the display
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#194This 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…
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call? Honestly, people used to say the same thing about Bluetooth hands-free devices years ago, and now no one even bats an eye when someone talks using AirPods.
ca. 25 years ago, I remember seeing the first comic comparing people with hands-free with the "village idiot" and making the point that we couldn't tell regular people apart from the village idiot any longer, because it'd implicitly already become normal.
In other words: This was normalized a generation ago.
And now I feel very old.
Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
#195Glasses 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).
> Glasses that let you record people without their awareness / consent?
I get it, it's icky. I feel the same way. Nevertheless, this is already a thing.
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#196The 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.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. My first thought was that they look like "BCGs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses
The 60s-era designs don't look all that different from some of the fairly popular current Warby Parker designs.
I bought a pair of glasses last week that look exactly like the 60's photo, but with a brown frame. Wasn't familiar with GI Glasses before, I just think that design looks cool.
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#199Still kinda dorky looking but 10x better than what Snap unveiled last week.[^1] Software looks miles ahead of the AR glasses competition as well. Nice job FB engineers...keep cooking! [^1]: https://www.spectacles.com/
FWIW, Orion is not for sale.
Exciting work! It seems like the main problems are now in miniaturizing electronics (and not optics) into a Ray-Ban form factor? Super cool.