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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by jedberg »

gruturo wrote: post #106

These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…

Have you seen this:

https://www.visor.com/shop

Disclosure, I'm an investor. But I share this as a fellow technologist who just bought one.

It's meant for working in VR/AR so it only ties to computers, but it might still work for you.

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Post by itomato »

When I see something like this the first thing I think is “what sinister thing is disguised as harmless accessory?”

The proven benefit for meta outweighs any potential I might be sold.

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

gorjusborg wrote: post #208
sp3000 wrote: post #8

Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.

The tendency for people to be creeped out by your surveillance glasses. If anyone around me wore these, I'd promptly tease them playfully about it, making it clear it's creepy. I understand that there are folks like yourself that are comfortable with it, but most people are against others walking around and recording. I hate that they are trying to hide the fact that the glasses are modified. Clearly they understand…

Cops have to wear body cams that are recording continuously (or at least we hope they are). Dash cams are popular...even standard...in places where insurance fraud is rife. How long the hold out will be until wearing a headset recording device is considered normal rather than creepy?

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Post by freeflight »

esafak wrote: post #175
ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, and it had no real AR interaction with the real world. But. If you could squint at the rough edges, and project forward what this could be like with more advanced tech, it was a no-brainer for me that it will be a far superior form factor for what we do with the…

You can talk to people with smart earbuds, with no invasion of privacy. edit: All right, all right! It's a fair cop.

You can talk to people with smart earbuds, but you have no clue if those smart earbuds are recording what you say or not.

The person wearing them could be on a call, and the caller on the other side would hear what you say.

The person wearing them could be streaming to twitch, and everybody watching that stream would hear what you say.

All while you assume that you are having a private conversation with earbud person.

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Post by jansan »

gruturo wrote: post #106

These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…

It is impossible to have a good display with a transparent lens, because you have to overlay the light that passes the lens with an even brighter light. Unless they find a way to dim shapes on the lenses, this will always be sub-optimal.

What will work is a camera on your VR device, that will give you a quasi-AR device, but those are still clunky and as you can see with the iGlasses they look a bit spooky from outside.

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Post by OJFord »

capableweb wrote: post #178
freedomben wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow dang, they really should make this more obvious. If I bought one and discovered that (despite being able to record and stream video) it had no display, I would be pissed.

> Wow dang, they really should make this more obvious. How? It's not mentioned anywhere that this is about displaying content, but it's very clear it's about capturing video and listening to audio only. Or you want them to put "Notice: No display is included in the device" on the landing page?

To be fair the second sentence in the short top description is about staying connected with calls and messages. I don't think many people's first assumption (without any other context/knowing more) would be that that means having them read out.

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Post by RockRobotRock »

netsharc wrote: post #136
bjnewman85 wrote: post #16

if you cover the LED notification light you will get a notification to uncover it. Surely that will stop anyone from covering it.

I wonder if the easy mod would be to replace the LED with invisible IR LED (then again the makers have probably considered this).

at that point make your own glasses with a much tinier and less obvious camera.

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Post by pj_mukh »

gruturo wrote: post #106

These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…

Unpopular opinion (even wsj wrote this product off [1]) but as a new dad these things have been an absolute game changer.

I continue to play with my toddler at all times but I can also capture critical moments without my kid thinking I’m constantly on my phone.

The grandparents have the footage on loop. This is just a win-win-win all around tbh even without any displays.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/metas-ray-ban-smart-glasses-fai...

PS: added benefit that when I don’t pick up my phone to get to the camera constantly I conveniently miss the attention destroying notifications most times from other Meta products

PPS: Caveat: I live in a sunny location so sunglasses make sense most days.

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Post by mathewsanders »

kart23 wrote: post #206
ajhurliman wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that’s just not what the product is. It’s not targeted at helping people navigate roads, it’s for giving creators a more seamless way of getting footage in their everyday life. Meta spent a crazy amount of money hosting a giant party at VidCon (a YouTube/TikTok/Instagram focused convention) and I haven’t really seen them pushing these glasses anywhere else. Casey Neistat did a review on the first-gen version in…

It would probably be pretty awesome at navigating roads too. I remember citibiking in nyc and basically having to memorize directions and street names, or constantly pull out my phone and figure out where i'm going. Having audio through the glasses would work great and still be able to hear your surroundings.

I’ve been biking around nyc boroughs for over a decade now and I still follow directions from mapping apps!

I’ve found Apple Watch to be okay (they give instructions on directions via haptic feedback) and AirPods with spoken directions to be even better.

I wear glasses too, but for directions I think I’d prefer haptic and/or audio even if visual was an option just for safety purposes.

The one pain point I have found with biking directions is that sometimes the directions come way too late to be useful (maybe I bike too fast haha).

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Post by troupe »

some_random wrote: post #57
sp3000 wrote: post #8

Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.

Is there a good way to text someone with smart glasses yet? How about cropping a photo before posting to instagram? What's the experience of doomscrolling twitter/x/whatever? I really don't think they're going to be as ubiquitous, as smartphones without being as good or better than them in at least some of these

> Is there a good way to text someone with smart glasses yet?

You could stream video from the glasses and then video yourself writing them a note and hope someone else tags them to let them know it was for them.

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