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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by simianparrot »

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…

After oculus rift I’m never buying another Meta product either. It doesn’t matter how good it is they have bo trust left for me.

Will happily try an alternative from someone like Valve or, heck, even Apple — although not for a few generations when the price is reasonable.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

askvictor wrote: post #435
zhyder wrote: post #110

Neural band is huge, glad they're shipping it already rather than waiting (years?) for a production version of Orion (the full AR glasses they demo'd a year ago together with this neural band). TheVerge found the controls great, even tried an alpha of handwriting for text input: https://youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek These glasses are just "annotated reality" rather than full AR, with just 1 small display; think Google Glass b…

I think the backlash against Google Glass was counterproductive - the product was intentionally made to be obvious that someone was wearing it. But because of the backlash, companies that want to do this kind of tech now have to hide it, such as this.

Let's forget that Google, just like Facebook, is an evil corporation with its main line of product being the sale of personal information, with absolutely no regards, except for when some country manages to slap their wrist.

So, it's quite a stretch to say "counterproductive", I'm for one very glad that happened. Sure, I love the tech and what really mind-blowing we could do with it (I was part of devs working with Gglasses) but I don't want these ruthless corps being the ones owning the output.

I'll wait until it is open, with self-hosted infra, and until then, I'll politely ask to remove the glasses if someone is talking to me.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

doublewhy wrote: post #521

Anyone using Meta Ray-Bans should be aware that your data is collected and used for AI training. There is no opt-out unless you're from EU. Also, the old Meta View companion app one day was renamed into the Meta AI app and started to provide ChatGPT like functionality. 1) “Meta AI with camera use is always enabled on your glasses unless you turn off ‘Hey Meta", which basically makes glasses defunct. 2) “voice transcr…

Incredibile how people can still discuss the pure tech when it's tainted with Meta's touch.

How much can they do before some people think twice? Or are they all employees?

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

paxys wrote: post #142
bryant wrote: post #25

The biggest thing stopping me from getting these is knowing that a derivative of Meta's Orion AR prototype will release to manufacturing in the next few years, and this just feels like a stop-gap. But the wrist/hand control is the thing that impressed me the most in today's release. I'd hope for this to go far beyond just the glasses.

Every piece of tech has a better version a year or two away. If you keep waiting then you are never going to buy anything.

I can end up buying from a non-evil company?

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by vasco »

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #586
vasco wrote: post #298

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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.

Yeah but I already live by the 5 second rule anyway so I'm more careless, you do have a point though, it's less hygienic for sure.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Yeul »

bigyabai wrote: post #380
anal_reactor wrote: post #335

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Lots of people, actually. This website is an echo chamber of those privacy-conscious.

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

I live in Europe so there are still rules keeping Weyland-Yutani in line.

If you're in the US you're on your own I guess.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

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.

Sells like a Toyota for the price of a Rolls Royce, kind of a win to me? And with a much better brand than Google or Facebook.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by vasco »

ramraj07 wrote: post #509
dweekly wrote: post #302

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Face recognition is uninuitively good. Google Photos was able to pick out faces from my baby photos pretty easily.

Google Photos works in a near perfect extremely constrained closed system: your photos have fewer than a hundred faces, it likely biases uncertainties with more confidence due to those constraints.

Funny because I don't use the feature and in my review tab I have like 15 versions of myself that google thinks are all different people for me to individually name. Mostly different phases of facial hair.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Piraty »

so, everybody wearing this in europe will hand out 'may i take photographs of you or your property'-forms + 'do you agree to Facebook's TOS, as your photographs will be uploaded to and processed by them'-forms prior to using this in public? just like owners of all the rolling surveillance stations (some still call them EV) do?

spy state actor's wet dream comes even more true with this, even more than with already overly de-privaciced public spaces.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by brador »

wickedsight wrote: post #559
mrweasel wrote: post #526

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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.

Ray-Ban is part of EssilorLuxottica. They own pretty much every single (sun)glasses brand on earth. I'm sure someone in their organization has made the decision that Ray-Ban was the best fit for a brand in their portfolio to do something together with Meta. Also, you're right about the niche. A lot of 'normal' people probably don't even have a clue that Meta and Facebook are the same thing.

Mark made the choice to go with RB (MIB inspired).
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