Didn’t Google already try this with Google Glass?
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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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#622Gen 1 had horrible picture quality. Casey Neistat made a review and it wasn't nowhere near good as an iPhone 5 from 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3iysOyelg&t=280s If this has a better picture quality, like up to the ~2023 smartphone camera standards then I'll buy one. I really like the idea.
What would you use it for? I kind of like it conceptually, but hard to imagine how I'd actually use it.
Useful when travelling so you don’t have a phone in your hand at all times.
Few things are more enjoyable for me than looking at photo albums from trips I took years ago with loved ones.
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#623In my industry, mining, I can see this sort of integration into a miner's helmet working its way into sites as a sort of situation analysis tool pretty easily. It would make a lot of things so much easier for folks on the surface to be able to quickly see 3-D scans (lidar would be amazin) of broken rock, or new tunnel, or cracks, etc. I am with others for the desire for more opennness. I would never hop on this loade…
Eventually everyone in the trades is going to have to wear these things.
I foresee a new subgenre of reality shows.
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#624Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my local sunglass store iI can buy genuine Wayfarers for a bit more than 100$ so I guess Luxotica’s margin is even higher than expected…
Luxottica cannibalized and cheapened Ray-Bans a long time ago; see my comment above.
You can definitely go to a mall and get ray bans with solid barrel hinges
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#625Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.
That same ability might lead people to ban people wearing smart glasses from participating. If we were having a party, we’d almost certainly not allow people to keep their smart glasses on because the complete lack of friction would mean certain individuals who are decently in the public eye would have to basically spend the whole evening just making sure there’s not even a suggestion of a still picture capturing som…
Fistfights at Burning Man.
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#626Hm, might be useful when capturing fishing videos. Instead of strapping a gopro or insta 360 to your body, just wear these and you get the added plus of polarized glasses. The video doesn't seem to have any stabilization yet though, so maybe a few generations later would be better.
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#627The relentless surveillance state marches ever onward...
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#628Earlier quoted context omitted.
Luxottica cannibalized and cheapened Ray-Bans a long time ago; see my comment above.
You can definitely go to a mall and get ray bans with solid barrel hinges
You can't. They were only available on the original Ray-Bans before they sold out to Luxottica.
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#629Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.
Everyone wearing them will eventually die in terrible car crashes because Eye-Sta-Gram Videos are more entertaining than stop lights
"He died doing what he loved most: watching cat videos."
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#630Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
did you miss typing /s at the end
but in all seriousness, I do still bring an olympus tg5 "brick" for my climbing/mountaineering trips, because phones are just too cumbersome to take pictures with, when hanging off the side of a cliff, wearing gloves, at below freezing temps etc.