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0xbadcafebee wrote: post #432
MilStdJunkie wrote: post #54

As a shooting enthusiast, my first thought is what this does in pistol competitions. Shooting a pistol is, perhaps unintuitively, more difficult than a long arm, because the rear sight is effectively floating around "out there", and you need practice to get your rear eye in the right place (even if using a flip-up red dot reflex sight). When moving around, re-acquiring always takes time, and it slows you down. With t…

> You could hip-shoot accurately from a dead sprint. It's gonna be pretty rad. Sounds pretty terrifying to me. A real life aimbot, that any human being can use for 1 shot 1 kill.

Honestly the idea of some asshole dead-dropping an armed sentrybot is far, far scarier to me. A couple of giggle-switch Glocks with drum mags, hooked up to a "Blast Anything That Moves" gimbal, would probably be deadlier than the same weight/volume of high explosive. Bullets don't care about the inverse square law.

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Post by sheepscreek »

ianbicking wrote: post #259

These could be pretty incredible if the platform was more open. You get highly available image and voice input, and good voice output. Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer s…

Have you heard of rewind.ai? It does exactly that but for your computer screen. I find it incredibly useful. Combined with this, the future looks very promising!

[1] https://www.rewind.ai/

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by pests »

ilyt wrote: post #496
scrumper wrote: post #425

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I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

Gopro mount gonna be far cheaper than those > I have come to loathe my phone as a camera. Yes it works with gloves on, but every day it ends up covered in oil and grease. Holding it is awkward, you have to do a bunch of swipey things to make the camera work, the 3D Touch (or whatever it's called now) is somewhat random with gloves, and I've lost count of the number of times it's got itself stuck in portrait or panora…

What will the GoPro mount solve?

> and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen.

That would be amazing.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by bombela »

scrumper wrote: post #425
jperras wrote: post #277

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> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer screen? Pair that with quickly available audio transcriptions and you can also dictate anything, thoughts, small notes, information as…

I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…

For what is worth, on my phone double click on the power button located on the side jumps into camera mode (even if locked). And pressing the volume down takes the photo. Then one click on the power button to turn off.

click-click, click, click.

And assuming the Google software doesn't decide to lag too much, it's quite quick to, and it reduces how much you touch the phone with dirty gloves.

edit: I should add that you still need one hand free to do so of course.

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Post by pests »

amethyst wrote: post #501
jacobsenscott wrote: post #423

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I've never had lunch with someone who was sitting there pointing their phone camera at me.

With modern wide angle lenses, it doesn't even need to be pointed directly at you to get you completely in the frame.

I don't know. Its weird. Kind of like how people have the "someone's staring at you" sense.

> The biological phenomenon is known as “gaze detection” or “gaze perception.” Neurological studies have found that the brain cells that initiate this response are very precise. If someone turns their gaze off of you by turning just a few degrees to their left or right, that eerie feeling quickly fades.

I 100% beleive we also do this with smartphones. You can 100% detect when a smartphone is looking at you or just being held in your direction. It might not be proven scientifically yet but I know this in my soul.

Similar to our ability to determine what someone else is looking at. We can watch someone's purpils move, and then immediately look at the exact area they looked at.

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Post by maroonblazer »

pests wrote: post #514
ilyt wrote: post #496

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gopro mount gonna be far cheaper than those > I have come to loathe my phone as a camera. Yes it works with gloves on, but every day it ends up covered in oil and grease. Holding it is awkward, you have to do a bunch of swipey things to make the camera work, the 3D Touch (or whatever it's called now) is somewhat random with gloves, and I've lost count of the number of times it's got itself stuck in portrait or panora…

What will the GoPro mount solve? > and just had a row of buttons on the side apps can use. Then just bind them to few common camera features rather than fidding with fucking touchscreen. That would be amazing.

> What will the GoPro mount solve?

Hands-free video recording, ala J Kenji Lopez Alt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFjuglEAds

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Post by darau1 »

sheepscreek wrote: post #513
ianbicking wrote: post #259

These could be pretty incredible if the platform was more open. You get highly available image and voice input, and good voice output. Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer s…

Have you heard of rewind.ai? It does exactly that but for your computer screen. I find it incredibly useful. Combined with this, the future looks very promising! [1] https://www.rewind.ai/

This seems seriously cool. I wonder if its constant recording is going to fill up my HDD.

edit: found the storage option. It defaults to keeping all data, but I've changed that to one month retention -- they say they use around 14GB a month.

It reminds me of having to use screen recording software for a previous remote job. I wished I could use that recording to do something exactly like this. Now, if only one could flip the script, and make the employer request that recording, instead of forcing one to share it.

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