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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by leokennis »

mrheosuper wrote: post #428
motorest wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. If you ask any of those 4 billion people if they know WhatsApp is related in anyway to Meta, your answers will be split between "no" and "what's a Meta?"

and do you think they will stop using Whatsapp if they know Meta is the parent ?

I think 99% of WhatsApp users would gladly stop using WhatsApp and switch to something like Signal, if they had verbal agreements of "everyone else" that they would also switch.

Everyone is only on WhatsApp because everyone is on WhatsApp. That is why they tolerate the Meta ickiness of it.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by numpad0 »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #121
llmthrow0827 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the VR/AR/XR demos are so insanely trivial and yet still manage to be much more difficult than current methods of doing things. Like, really, cooking? Normal method: * Search for a recipe * Leave my phone on a stand and glance at it if I forget a step Meta glasses: * Put glasses on (there's a reason I got lasek, it's because wearing glasses sucks) * Talk into the void, trying to figure out how to describe my prob…

These companies are reaching really hard for use cases while ignoring the only ones VR actually works well for. If they just went all in on gaming it would be a much better product than trying to push AI slop cooking help.

No offense, but there it this chart, and what this tells me, maybe just me, is that gaming is a niche within VR, not even majority use case. Zuck is probably right about VR/AR being the next big social media, only he's wrong that it'll be like Facebook/Instagram type of social media; it's old Twitter type of social media.

[1]:

Most played VR games

  Rank Name          Curr   24h pk All-time
  1.   VRChat        33,032 46,652  66,824
  2.   War Thunder   26,388 65,589 121,318
  3.   PAYDAY 2      23,513 31,619 247,709
  4.   No Man's Sky  22,509 46,010 212,613
  5.   OBS Studio    11,434 22,388  27,334
  6.   Phasmophobia   7,716 22,789 112,717
  7.   Forza Hz 5     4,940 13,617  81,096
  8.   Assetto Corsa  3,885 13,598  19,796
  9.   OVR Adv. Sett. 3,030  4,299   6,418
  10.  Tabletop Sim.  2,902  7,755  37,198
1: https://steamdb.info/charts/?tagid=21978

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by thefz »

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…

Even less is needed to generate danger: I found myself checking my phone twice during a car trip because when listening to music through the USB-C to Jack dongle, it believes I am blasting music at full volume through my ears and decides to cut off the volume to 10% after 20 minutes.

Don't, and I mean DON'T decide things for the user.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Auracle »

jodrellblank wrote: post #463
bigyabai wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

8 days ago you would never buy a gimmicky device. Now a screen facehugger (which does even less than an iPad and is useful in even fewer situations) is the best thing you ever bought? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188372

One man’s gimmick is another’s useful device.

I don’t use my iPad much…or didn’t, until I had a toddler and long car rides. I either used my phone or my PC, or a projector for movies. The iPad didn’t really fit in there.

I use my Quest 3 often. I can see why someone would have his opinion.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by jaccola »

jrowen wrote: post #36

I think continuing to go for the classic Ray-Ban look is a mistake. I don't think this product is enticing to the Ray-Ban crowd at this point. Ray-Bans are for looking effortlessly cool, not maybe secretly filming people, it's a wolf in sheep's (bulging) clothing. I would go for more steampunk goggles. Get nerds and hobbyists really excited about it. Create a new lane.

Why are Ray-Ban doing this, is Meta paying them a boatload?

I'm not negative on the Meta glasses, I think a device like this is the future, even still this hurts Ray-Bans reputation in my eyes.

It's like if Rolex made a smart watch, the tech just doesn't mesh well with a "luxury" brand.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Findecanor »

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…

That's already happening with cell phones and wireless earbuds, just without video.

... and I personally find that horrible.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by rmonvfer »

paxys wrote: post #236
JKCalhoun wrote: post #115

They have a brand problem. Absolutely no way I buy anything from Meta.

Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. Their brand problem doesn't extend much further than the HN comment section.

In my (totally limited) experience, most non-tech people don’t even know what Meta is. WhatsApp is almost the only messaging platform used where I live (and pretty much everywhere outside the US).

I remember doing Bug Bounty for Meta a while ago and telling some friends and family about it, and I had to repeatedly explain they _are_ Facebook and WhatsApp and Instagram and many other things because they would look at me like I was talking about aliens.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Auracle »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #436
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…

So META now has videos of your baby. Let that sink in. Hope they were clothed at least. People never learn. One day your children will be your judge when they are grown up, when they realise what you did to them. I hope it was worth it.

Thats such a ridiculously extreme viewpoint. What exactly did the user “do to them?”
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