Restaurant reviews, recipes, shopping lists. Yeah, I'll wait for something more compelling I guess.
Well that's the point. Intel is releasing a developer preview in the hopes that third parties will create something more compelling.
Intel made smart glasses that look normal
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Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean to derail this topic, but we don't have too many videos of my mother because for half of her life recording a video meant carrying one of those massive VHS recorders on your shoulder. When she passed and I realized how few videos we had, my first thoughts were: "How can I preserve these moments with my daughter, not just for myself but for her when I'm no longer around?" So I started looking into 360 deg…
It's definitely something that deaths and similar events make you think about, but ultimately, I also find myself asking if it would be used at all. And if it was, would it be beneficial? I have thousands of family slide photos from my grandparents. This is unusual, but they were big photography fans. Nobody looked at them for at least a decade. But about 10 years ago I had access to a nice scanner, so I digitized a…
>I think quantity is overrated, and it just becomes write-only-memory. I still take hundreds of photos for myself every year, but I doubt my kids will ever look at them for more than a few hours, max.
My mother has a habit of taking a bunch of photos of an event, and posting all of them to fb, disregarding quality. Blurry shots, photos of people mid-scarfing down food, etc, it all goes up.
These kinds of collections are utterly worthless, and to a degree, kind of disgusting to go through. But the events themselves are perfectly worthy of being photographed, posted, and whatever.
The problem is the lack of curation. Its fine that she took many photos, as long as she only shared the two that actually looked good.
In the same way, I doubt you'd have the problem having many unseen photos if you selected, and shared, the ones that were worth sharing. I doubt all of the thousands should be shared; instead you're forcing the filtering process on every individual you pass the collection to.
And collecting all of your experiences in video would be fine, if you only actually shared the 0.01% of it actually worth sharing. Of course no one wants to do it on your behalf.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My main problem is what does it give me over wearing a smart watch? Turn by turn directions when riding a bike. Easy to track countdown timers that don't require swiping/navigating through a smartwatch UI. Limited purpose devices are useful because the UI can be optimized to just a handful of use cases. Just like the original Palm Pilots were (IMHO) better for organization than modern smartphones. (The original Pal…
> Turn by turn directions when riding a bike. FWIW, the Apple Watch offers this. It buzzes or audibly signals one way for turning left and another for turning right. I use it when walking around a new city sometimes. I love the idea of the shopping list, though not integration with Amazon or having it automatically progress. It doesn't know where things are in my store (and they change), so that doesn't make sense to…
> FWIW, the Apple Watch offers this. It buzzes or audibly signals one way for turning left and another for turning right.
What does it do at 5 way intersections? :-D
When I was trying to propose this feature for Microsoft Band , I realized that it worked great in West Coast cities with their nice grid layouts, and also while strolling around Manhattan. Falls apart in a lot of other situations though. :(
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#204Despite all the negativity around Google Glasses' camera, that was actually the best feature. You could really capture some great moments directly from your eye's perspective at the wink of an eye. My mother recently passed and out of all the photos and videos, my favorite was a 10 second video of me handing her flowers shot from Google Glasses. It looks like she's staring right back into my soul. I have a three mont…
Just my two cents; I'm a father of 4 and I'm okay with not capturing those moments on film. And I mean that in two senses. One, I'm fine using my very imperfect memory to recall special moments and two, because of the logistical problems with grabbing the camera I'm not willing to risk missing out being fully in the moment. The occasionally photograph from an event or time period seems sufficient to conjure up the fe…
As a parent with a terrible episodic memory, having more convenient ways of augmenting my memory would be a huge plus.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Many of us remote/home office workers do not. I'd like to keep it that way.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that the creepy thing about Google Glass isn't the camera or the display it's Google.
Yeah, I loved the form factor, it was the software and the cloud dependency that crippled it. I've actually been looking at a Vufine+ combined with an Intel Compute Stick to create a more customized alternative.
The Vufine+'s battery life kills that option for me. Wearables need to have a long enough battery life that you can use them most of your day without taking them in and out.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#207Did anyone get tech specs on the display? How many characters can it display at once? One line or multiple lines? What's the resolution? Are images supported? I don't think a monochrome device will sell, but the display is (to me) by far the most interesting development here.
It's in the article:
It's a monochrome Virtual Retinal Display (VRD), powered by a monochrome VCSEL light source and MEMS scanner. The resolution of the image is 400X100 pixels.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#208This is actually something I would like to wear. It's like normal glasses, I am not recording videos of the people around me, and it could show me relevant information when needed without looking at my phone. I can think of a few use cases this could cover, in a very elegant way. The nice thing is, that they are completely "invisible" for other people around me.
I do think they are cool and could be useful, but not to the point of making someone that doesn't wear glasses want to wear them. My main problem is what does it give me over wearing a smart watch? The only thing I can think of is being slightly more discreet and the "gesture" not being rude to activate when you are in company. That is something I found out quickly when I started wearing an Apple Watch - even if you…
As someone who does wear glasses all the time I'd be really into this, it's the one thing that might deter me from paying for LASIK instead. Since I need to get a new pair right now I'm really wishing I could beta test these B)
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
>Would you love that camera if it was pointed at you? 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. For what it's worth, maybe this will finally teach people to thing before they act.
> maybe this will finally teach people to thing before they act.
I think it'll rather lead to a homogenization of behavior. A dystopia I don't want to live in.
Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do think they are cool and could be useful, but not to the point of making someone that doesn't wear glasses want to wear them. My main problem is what does it give me over wearing a smart watch? The only thing I can think of is being slightly more discreet and the "gesture" not being rude to activate when you are in company. That is something I found out quickly when I started wearing an Apple Watch - even if you…
As someone who does wear glasses all the time I'd be really into this, it's the one thing that might deter me from paying for LASIK instead. Since I need to get a new pair right now I'm really wishing I could beta test these B)
If you do LASIK I'm pretty sure it's reversible, so fear not.