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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by asdev »

aacook wrote: post #99

It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user. I bought these both in clear and sunglasses and I love them. I've recorded some of the most amazing videos of my baby with them. Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you — I've even done a few longer bike rides with them and…

they also don't have an app store and are a closed platform which is a big downside.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by ptmcc »

garbawarb wrote: post #144
lurking_swe wrote: post #119

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> Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you Many earbuds, like Airpods, have transparency mode. The end result is the same…music while hearing background noise. In fact airpods are better because of the ANC mode that tunes out noise except conversation and other “important” sounds. I can also wear airpods indoors without looking like a dork…

I wouldn't want to wear earbuds while doing anything active, the chance of them falling out is too high.

I've run many hundreds of hours with two variations of AirPods and they've never once fallen out

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by JSR_FDED »

cflewis wrote: post #102
blackqueeriroh wrote: post #68

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We all love to say this, but everyone forgets: Apple has never beaten competitors by being the first – they’ve beaten them by being the best. Personal computers? Apple wasn’t first. Smartphones with screens? Apple wasn’t first. Tablets? Not first by a mile. True Wireless Earbuds? Nope, not at all first. Smartwatches? Hell no, not first. And yet, Apple’s a category leader in every single one of these areas. I don’t th…

I think it's a "yes but" here. AI is the first transition point since the smartphone. Apple knows how to make hardware, and knows how to make software. I am extremely unconvinced Apple has a clue about what to do with AI. You can't just jump in, the lead up to getting this stuff going is a 5 year+ horizon, and Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are still moving exceptionally fast. Apple has shown they are nowhere nea…

They also don’t own a search engine, yet google pays them $20B annually

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by albert_e »

Is anyone else seeing concerns about where this technology is heading --

(A) Are we going to consume food prepared by a human so incompetent that he needs Live AI to tell him what ingredient to put and how much ... and that too an AI so unreliable that it can't tell whether the bowl is empty, let alone what ingredients are in it.[1]

In what world is this a sane marketing proposition?

(B) Distracted driving due to smartphones is at least detectable -- how do we escape distracted driving because of smart glasses?

When people eventually crash cars or walk into traffic or fall into pits -- no tech company will so much as acknowledge that the tech they are pushing so hard might have something to do with it.

Who should take the lead on saying: wait a minute we need some common sense boundaries around this ... some ground rules around responsible use of technology.

[1] Failed demo of Live AI - https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by enos_feedler »

albert_e wrote: post #204

Is anyone else seeing concerns about where this technology is heading -- (A) Are we going to consume food prepared by a human so incompetent that he needs Live AI to tell him what ingredient to put and how much ... and that too an AI so unreliable that it can't tell whether the bowl is empty, let alone what ingredients are in it.[1] In what world is this a sane marketing proposition? (B) Distracted driving due to sma…

Dont worry. The market decides what we want and we just wont go for it

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by bigyabai »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #182
bigyabai wrote: post #166

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Well, your loss. My Oculus Quest remains the best $400 I ever spent on consumer tech.

Almost everyone I know who got a quest stopped using it after a week. It's a fun toy, but gets boring pretty quickly.

I use mine for flight simming. The screen looks great for the price, and lets me stream games like DCS World from my desktop.

Far as fun toys go, the Quest sits head-and-shoulders over my Nintendo Switch.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by dmbche »

stavros wrote: post #123
TIPSIO wrote: post #42

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If you’ve ever used the current Meta Ray Ban and AI, this almost exactly happens when the connection is bad. Pure confusion but the AI still tries to give you an answer. I bet the device hardware is small/cheap and susceptible to interference

I have the Meta glasses and I've never noticed this, and don't even understand why it could be the connection's fault. The AI gets your audio and your image, if it gives the wrong answer, it's because the AI went wrong. How would the bad connection ever affect it?

The ai is in the cloud

Edit0: ie without internet access the ai is unable to produce an answer other than some prerecorded ones I guess

In the live showcase the presenter even mentions that the wifi must have been bad for the ai to repeat the answer

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by mylifeandtimes »

AvAn12 wrote: post #188
paxys wrote: post #44

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Do you also ban cellphones in your office? And email? Text messaging? If an employee wants to steal your IP, they will.

Yes. I work on a trading floor. Personal tech is a big issue in the world of private equity, investment banking, capital markets, law, medicine, proprietary research, coding, national defense, homeland security, most government roles, law enforcement, and may other professions. An employee may try to steal IP, but in the case of regulated industries, they can wind up in jail very quickly for doing so. This is no joke…

Fortunately this is no longer true in most US government roles.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by jnaina »

pm90 wrote: post #177
jnaina wrote: post #150

This is beginning to mirror the evolution of the Smart Phone. The Apple Vision Pro is AR glasses at the Apple Newton evolutionary stage, an early smart PDA (Yes I'm the sucker that bought both at their respective launch, 3 decades apart). The Meta Ray-Ban Display is AR glasses at the Windows Mobile/Blackberry stage. Apple will likely swoop in and launch the final refined version of the AR glasses (thin, 8 hour batter…

I really hope that Apple is working on this. It seems like they have at least some of the framework through the Vision; if they fire that team/abandom this software its gonna be a huge mistake.

Apple really plays the long game. More than 10 years ago, on a now defunct website for AAPL investors, there was an Apple employee who inadvertently blurted out about how his work at Apple was related to researching saccades & micro-saccades, the small rapid eye movements of the eye, as it never stays completely still, even during “fixation".

Apparently eye tracking must distinguish meaningful gaze from the natural jitters. I was thinking at that time, as an AAPL investor, that Apple seems to be wasting money on worthless R&D endeavors.

It only became apparent to me, much later with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, how his seminal research on saccades contributed to the design and realization of the AVP.

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