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Post by immibis »

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…

Is this a physical or mental focus thing?

As in, are you just concentrating on the speedometer instead of the road, or do your eyeballs have to adjust because the optics aren't set correctly? I believe a HUD is supposed to focus at infinity, same as a road that's many times farther away than the size of your eyeballs.

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Post by murderfs »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I had an old mazda3 (2014) with a little pop up plastic screen HUD, and it was focused at some distance significantly greater than the distance between my head and the screen.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by immibis »

martin_a wrote: post #560
perihelions wrote: post #519

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> "that want live videos of different angles of your face" Hetzner (outsourcing to Idenfy) dared to demand this of me, three years ago. I'm still mad about it. > "When that data eventually leaks," Indeed, my understanding is these sensitive biometrics are generically (i) uploaded in full to a remote server, where they're (ii) retained for a nontrivial amount of time, because they need to be (iii) manually QA'd by hum…

Hetzner (in Germany) never did things like these to me. What were you trying to do with them?

Hetzner uses some kind of AI (the old kind) to assign risk scores to customers. In my case they just wanted a photo of my passport, but that was years ago. For some people they just outright deny access no matter what you upload. Other people just go right on through.

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Post by arcanemachiner »

aikinai wrote: post #551
armadsen wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Once I had a rental car (a Nissan) that only had a screen instead of a mirror. It was absolutely useless since the resolution and dynamic range were too low, and as you mentioned, you have to change your focal distance which drastically increases time/friction to check the mirror. I found myself actually using the incidental reflection on the surface of the screen instead of the actual pixels. I can't believe this ar…

Should have just taped a mirror over it. What a ridiculous use of technology!

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by 946789987649 »

XCSme wrote: post #541

Didn't Google Glass do the exact same thing and failed? Not because of the technology issues, but social issues. People nowadays want to disconnect from technology more, not to have it even closer.

Their problem was that they didn't look like normal sunglasses, so people were immediately intrigued/suspicious of them. Although these have the little light if you're recording, the amount of instagram videos where creators are using these and the random people they're directly talking to don't notice, should tell you all.

The rise of smart accessories (especially watches) should tell you that a lot of people don't want to disconnect

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by gausswho »

mrweasel wrote: post #526
JKCalhoun wrote: post #115

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

Which makes you wonder about Ray-Ban. Are they aware that their involvement with Meta risks hurting their brand? Those of us who are critical of Meta might be niche enough that it doesn't matter, but they must have factored that in.

Huh. I genuinely thought they were already acquired.

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Post by alex1138 »

XCSme wrote: post #541

Didn't Google Glass do the exact same thing and failed? Not because of the technology issues, but social issues. People nowadays want to disconnect from technology more, not to have it even closer.

Bet you GG though actually treated your PII with respect

For all my numerous complaints about Google

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by t-3 »

fruitworks wrote: post #515
bigyabai wrote: post #380

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is typically slow to admit it, but Facebook and TikTok wouldn't be popular if you were wrong. Consumers don't care.

Google glass

People care about other people they meet spying on them or doing creepy things. They don't care about people they don't meet spying on them or doing creepy things, because they don't notice it and it has a very low chance of showing up in the social media feed of people they know.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by alex1138 »

yeah so if you need info on people at Harvard just ask

i have over 4000 emails, sns...

"what? how'd you manage that one?"

people just submitted it, i don't know why. they "trust me". dumb fucks

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by [deleted] »

piltdownman wrote: post #537
bigyabai wrote: post #380

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HN is typically slow to admit it, but Facebook and TikTok wouldn't be popular if you were wrong. Consumers don't care.

Consumers don't know or want to know rather - ignorance is bliss when it comes to getting Children to spend relatively quiet time independently. Otherwise the GOP would be virtue-signalling about getting Roblox as a platform getting banned due to the preponderance of predators and material unsuitable or unsafe for children.

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