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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Kirth »

m463 wrote: post #379
armadsen wrote: post #327

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Yep. My new car has a digital rear view mirror. You flip a switch and the rear view mirror becomes a screen showing a feed from a camera on the back of the car. It’s nice for night time as well as when the rear window is blocked by rear seat passengers’ heads, or cargo or whatever. But it’s uncomfortable for me because it requires my eyes to refocus from distant to close and back when I glance at it, which isn’t need…

Wonder why they don't optically refocus the display at a distance? There are ways to do stuff like this.

The people working on these things likely don't use the end product.

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Post by rashidae »

rashidae wrote: post #382

I got so excited watching these videos and going through the product page. I completely ignored the price tag without putting any resistance and I thought to myself: I'VE GOT TO HAVE THIS! Not only that... I started to think about ways I could use this!! I pictured myself using them... I visualized it all, and then remembered when I felt this way when the Ipod was released, and then again, when the first Pebble watch…

who ever's downvoting my comment... You're literally trying to shut up the positive review due to your lack of empathy? WTF? This is my preference, I'm an expert in tech and I don't hold your negative views... Stop trying to control the narrative.

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Post by ludicrousdispla »

zmmmmm wrote: post #168
SchemaLoad wrote: post #116

>Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eye…

I do think we're in for a bit of a reality check on how human attention works. I have a HUD in my car that shows me directions, speed etc and when I'm looking at that the rest of the view out the windscreen is hardly even there to my visual perception even though I'm looking right at it. This seems to be getting largely overlooked but I feel like over time statistics are going to emerge that HUD type displays are inc…

"Change blindness" is how this is characterized in the research field. Basically any abrupt change in your visual field will prevent you from seeing another change on the road.

http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/#CBdemos

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Post by heavyset_go »

drdaeman wrote: post #145
SchemaLoad wrote: post #116

>Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eye…

> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you. They wouldn't do this if the conversation is important to them. Not as much as one would glance on a smartwatch when they get a chirp, which, I believe is perfectly socially acceptable in most business/casual situations. And if the…

The glasses close the attention loop faster, and the brain really, really likes quick stimuli -> dopamine release loops.

The faster it happens, the more addictive it is. It's the difference between oral administration of drugs and IVing them directly into one's veins.

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

dymk wrote: post #293
ethbr1 wrote: post #186

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You'd be amazed how many <25s have no idea Meta owns Instagram and WhatsApp.

The big “From Meta” at the bottom of the splash screen doesn’t tip people off?

I suspect it’s more that they don’t know who Meta is and because it’s meaningless they don’t link the “From Meta” between the two apps, if they even use both of them.

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Post by rossant »

ptmcc wrote: post #202
garbawarb wrote: post #144

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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

Might depend on the shape of your ear canal. Mines seem to be weirdly shaped so nothing holds.

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Post by tsimionescu »

efskap wrote: post #198
dmix wrote: post #158

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It’s usually the build quality which is usually noticeable by other people looking at it and how they’ll break in a week from light wear

The main reason I avoid cheap sunglasses is that if they only dim in the visible spectrum, your pupil dilates and lets in more UV light than it would have otherwise, damaging the retina. Not that the full spectrum protection explains away the entire premium, but it is a reason not to go for bottom of the barrel ones sold on street corners.

Common glass absorbs most of the UV light, and your lens and cornea absorb the rest. If UV light did hit your retina, you'd actually notice it - people who lack a cornea and/or lens can actually notice UV light, which is why artificial lenses like you'd get after in cataract surgery are now made of UV-absorbant materials.

So unless you have a rare medical condition AND you're buying plastic lens glasses, I think you're worrying for nothing.

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Post by SchemaLoad »

jhatemyjob wrote: post #389
SchemaLoad wrote: post #374

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VR in general was a flop. Airpods and Apple watch I'm fairly sure are way ahead of the rest in sales. Airpods on their own are bigger than most tech companies in sales.

Ya sure, they have more sales volume. Doesn't mean they're better. Toyota tells more cars than Rolls Royce. Top-shelf wireless earbuds aren't from Apple. Same for smart watches.

"better" is subjective. Competitors might offer advantages in a narrow scope, but clearly as an overall package, consumers think the Apple product is best since they choose to buy them over the alternatives.

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Post by amatecha »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #381
amatecha wrote: post #67

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cries in Oculus Go :( > released on May 1, 2018 to generally positive reviews. By July 2019, the Go was estimated to have sold over two million units. On June 23, 2020, Facebook Technologies announced it would be ending the sales of the Oculus Go later that year

ending sales is not the same as ending support; use the correct dates!

I used the correct dates, at least the text is copied/pasted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Go

At least they released an update in 2021 that allows people to "root" the device so it won't rely on the cloud services anymore -- a pretty rare occurrence for abandoned products!

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