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Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by starsinspace »

nogridbag wrote: post #37

Despite 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…

I don't think anyone cares if you use such a glasses camera in your private space, with people who know you and are fine with it. The problem is when it becomes normal and everyone has them on all the time, in public spaces too. Then nobody can opt out anymore.

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Post by criddell »

saagarjha wrote: post #185
criddell wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm thinking of getting one for a single application - Drafts. It's basically a take-a-note app. You talk to the watch, it records and transcribes your message, storing it in an application that's similar to an email client. At the end of my day I would open my inbox and process my notes. I've also been getting into time tracking and I think there are some apps for starting and stopping timers from the watch.

Not to burst your bubble or anything, but as an Apple Watch user I've found that apps on the watch are nothing like you would have hoped: they're slow and limited. I'm not saying that Apple Watch isn't useful –I'm just saying that in my experience, its value comes from things other than apps.

This review on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/SzZjAMOnPtk?t=240

Shows the watch app starting in about a second or two.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by xab9 »

erikj wrote: post #14

I'm disappointed that "programming for Vaunt will involve JavaScript". We're stuck with this horribly designed language on the web because browsers don't run anything else (natively), and there is a strong trend in the field to replace it, either with compilation of saner languages to JS or with WebAssembly. We don't need to infect another nascent market with this atrocity, let it die.

Just get over it. Either JS will kill every other language or webassembly will save us. Place your bets.

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by xab9 »

gnicholas wrote: post #163

Interesting that they chose red as the display color. One of the co-creators of Google Glass said that they initially all thought red would be good, but after trying different colors the consensus was that it was terrible. This was because there wasn't enough contrast with the background environment. It sounds like Intel's tech is fundamentally different—they paint your retina with a laser—and this may make the backg…

I need your clothes, boots and your motorcycle.

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Post by oarsinsync »

com2kid wrote: post #192
khedoros1 wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll explain my counterexample further. I work at an office of a large tech company. I've worked in this office for almost 10 years at this point, and was here as we acquired 3/4 of the building (we shared with 3 other tenants when I started, and now are renting the entire building). We did some massive renovations when the previous tenants left, and I was in-office during the buildout. There are cameras at some entr…

Fair enough. :) I imagine you have better front desk security than the places I've worked! I'd still argue that the majority of workers are under surveillance, at least in cities.

Of all the financial tech firms I know in London, only one has cameras on its staff.

None of the non-financial tech workers I know have cameras on them all day.

I don’t know if my anecdotes are enough to extrapolate and generalise from, but yours are enough to ensure I stay on this side of the pond.

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Post by oarsinsync »

naasking wrote: post #54
maltalex wrote: post #49

Earlier 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? If the camera had a light indicating when it was actually recording, that seems better. There are probably many small changes to make such cameras more acceptable.

Google for “activate webcam without light”

Ever noticed people have covered their laptop cameras even though they have a light to indicate if it’s on?

How do you do that to someone else’s camera that has been remote activated with the light disabled?

Re: Intel made smart glasses that look normal

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Post by kageneko »

nogridbag wrote: post #149
y0ghur7_xxx wrote: post #3

This 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'm curious if the position of the "Vaunt display" will feel similar to Google Glass. From the article: >> It projects a rectangle of red text and icons down in the lower right of your visual field. But when I wasn’t glancing down in that direction, the display wasn’t there. My first thought was that the frames were misaligned. The HUD in Google Glass was also outside of your normal field of view and for certain thin…

Yeah. I was working on some search-and-rescue stuff using Google Glass. My eventual prototype had a "coarse" mode and a "fine" mode.

In fine mode, it would give you a fairly detailed readout of the bearing and distance to your target (marked with GPS). It required doing that thing where you're looking up-and-to-the-right in order to see what was going on.

In coarse mode, the entire Glass display was changed to a single color. I found that it showed up well even in someone's peripheral vision and the colors were distinct enough that you could navigate pretty well without having to watch the display.

I tried using symbols (giant triangles to indicate direction and such) but none of them worked as well as the color blocks.

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Post by hrktb »

jclardy wrote: post #10
y0ghur7_xxx wrote: post #3

This 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…

> My main problem is what does it give me over wearing a smart watch?

Smart watches are not for everyone either. I hate having things weighting down my hands or hitting tables so this would be a device I’d choose over any smartwatch.

Also I think it’s nice to have a device that is instantanous to put on and take off. You want to focus on something for 15 seconds ? just take them off. Finished focusing ? they’re back on.

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Post by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg »

xab9 wrote: post #213
erikj wrote: post #14

I'm disappointed that "programming for Vaunt will involve JavaScript". We're stuck with this horribly designed language on the web because browsers don't run anything else (natively), and there is a strong trend in the field to replace it, either with compilation of saner languages to JS or with WebAssembly. We don't need to infect another nascent market with this atrocity, let it die.

Just get over it. Either JS will kill every other language or webassembly will save us. Place your bets.

False dichotomy
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