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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by afandian »

strogonoff wrote: post #573
solid_fuel wrote: post #309

Meta locked two games I already paid for - Blade & Sorcery VR and Beat Saber - behind account verification on the Quest 2. I already bought both of these, played them for a while, but now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way. I will never bu…

Microsoft pulled the account verification trick with Minecraft after forced account migration a few years back, locking accounts and forcing customers to verify mobile phone number to even launch the game.

That's crazy.

If you want to play something minecraft-like, Luanti (VoxeLibre) is really excellent. I play it with my child, and it's indistinguishable from 'real Minecraft'.

https://www.luanti.org/

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by kotaKat »

xdfgh1112 wrote: post #405
solid_fuel wrote: post #309

Meta locked two games I already paid for - Blade & Sorcery VR and Beat Saber - behind account verification on the Quest 2. I already bought both of these, played them for a while, but now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way. I will never bu…

How does that work? The Quest doesn't even require a Facebook account. They were decoupled in 2022.

You can’t tell me a Meta account isn’t just a Facebook account with extra steps.

It’s still Facebook and will always be Facebook.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by croes »

numpad0 wrote: post #473
SchemaLoad wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

To me the chart shows that VR is mainly used for games. And the steam chart don't include the games played directly on the Quest headsets.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by numpad0 »

Nevermark wrote: post #516
numpad0 wrote: post #442

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta's probably losing tons of cash on this one at $799. Realistic retail price for what they're shipping is likely couple times over that. No way they're even fully covering the hardware cost with this price.

You think its more expensive that Apple Vision Pro? [0] Estimates for that are around $1500. [0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/apple-vision-pros-co...

yeah, yeah probably. AVP uses less hardcore displays and accompanying optics. Fundamentally they're fancier Apple Watch displays, though it has more by mass. The front-back aligned polarizers for VR pancakes might be a bit complicated, but the lenses itself are rotationally symmetric. This one uses LCoS which will require front illumination combiner prisms, and also the big flat lens thing is probably built using lithography of some kind. I reckon it might not be holographic but something equally exotic like strategically laid out micro wedges suspended in the transparent stuff.

The earlier Meta prototype was quoted on media articles as costing over $10k or something and used transparent SiC for lenses, and they said work is ongoing to find a cheaper material. I don't think they meant the lens cost $9.75k and the rest $0.25k by that.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by unsupp0rted »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #115

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

Only on HN do they have a brand problem.

The vast majority of the world doesn’t care. Half don’t know that Meta and Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp are the same thing.

And even if they know it’s no more concerning than that conspiracy video they just watched and 100% believed about Bill Gates, as they log into Windows or power on their Xbox.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

vasco wrote: post #298
hdjrudni wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno, if these worked perfectly I don't think it'd be awful to be able to open my fridge and say "what can I make with this" and it could rattle of some suggestions based on my known preferences and even show me images in their new display. Hands-free while cooking (not having to touch my phone with messy hands) is not a bad thing either.

I touch my phone with messy hands all the time. They are water resistant now, just wash it after

I think more so I feel like after touching the phone I should really wash my hands before touching the food or doing anything food related etc.

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Post by xandrius »

HaZeust wrote: post #469
wronglebowski wrote: post #22

The live demo of this is brutal. https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055

I have mad respect to them for actually attempting this on the fly - especially a public company. Nothing really to gain versus a scripted demo, and absolutely everything to lose. Admirable.

Obviously scripted, just the LLM didn't follow its part of the script.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by cedws »

As many others have said, I also have no interest in buying a Meta device, but I’m glad that they’re at least pushing this space forward and hopefully other companies will start doing more R&D.

I had an Oculus CV1 in 2019 but sold it when it became mandatory to migrate to a Meta account.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by holografix »

Can’t wait to see Apple’s response. Only reason I’m not buying one of these September 30th is I know apple will release something better.

Well that and it being a meta product.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

_zoltan_ wrote: post #458
paxys wrote: post #9

I saw the keynote, and while everything about the glasses was more or less as expected, seeing Zuck easily navigate the interface and type 30 words per minute while barely moving his fingers was a true WTF moment. If they can actually make the neural interface work that well then Meta has won this round.

there are only a few companies where very strong vision, long time horizon and pouring money into said projects come together. NVIDIA, obviously and Meta are definitely on this list.

Yep "vision" because they are trying to sell you glasses. /s

But Meta's business is clearly getting more and more sweet data from its users. How anyone can not see past this being a surveillance tool for a vast amount of data is unbelievable to me.

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