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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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fleischhauf wrote: post #610
dools wrote: post #589

I just can't imagine ever buying something like this from Facebook. I know everyone shits on about Google being bad and whatnot, but the things I buy from Google aren't really part of their advertising business. I pay for Workspace and Google Cloud Platform, and those things don't advertise at me. I am more likely to cruise around already logged into Google as a result of using those things, which obviously plays int…

I wouldn't be so sure about google not being inherently about getting all your data. apple I'm not so sure.

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

WuxiFingerHold wrote: post #553
BLKNSLVR wrote: post #431

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Further evidence to the truth of this: The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. –Jeff Hammerbacher Oh lament! for what, not just the future, but the present, could have been. Edited to add: But! Even as I have just written that and stand by it, I just don't know if humanity could have done it any other way. One must sell their soul to 'the green', even just a little, to have th…

I share this view and have to fight strong negative feelings every time I see another technically great innovation that is just used to make people esp. young people ill and suffering. Most young people already are Insta, TicToc and YT zombies with crippled creativity and full of anxiety. Now, Meta is trying to steal the few remaining minutes they just can be human beings and not being abused as consuming bots. If Zu…

> inject this crap into our dreams

Well I just have to reference Futurama now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCrcMeVZHs

Which is incomplete without: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlGklt4BSQ8

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keiferski wrote: post #615
lifeinthevoid wrote: post #605

My biggest gripe with AR products is that they will just become a tool to spoil the real world with ads everywhere. No thanks.

But many cities in the real world already have ads everywhere. If anything, a modified AR device could allow you to detect and remove those.

I cant wait for one to overblend the other .New shakedown unlocked.

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Post by murermader »

keiferski wrote: post #615
lifeinthevoid wrote: post #605

My biggest gripe with AR products is that they will just become a tool to spoil the real world with ads everywhere. No thanks.

But many cities in the real world already have ads everywhere. If anything, a modified AR device could allow you to detect and remove those.

Complex solution to a simple problem. Just ban ads in cities. Like some cities have already done. Then the ads that are left are just for stuff that is important, e.g. events, music, etc. No need for AI filtering algorithms that have to decide what to block and what to leave.

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Post by teractiveodular »

andreilys wrote: post #618
dools wrote: post #589

I just can't imagine ever buying something like this from Facebook. I know everyone shits on about Google being bad and whatnot, but the things I buy from Google aren't really part of their advertising business. I pay for Workspace and Google Cloud Platform, and those things don't advertise at me. I am more likely to cruise around already logged into Google as a result of using those things, which obviously plays int…

but those products that I pay for aren't vehicles for advertising and I don't think Google would ever try to make them that. Advertising is 80% of Google's business. If you think those things aren't being factored into their ads model.... Idk what to tell you.

Google very publicly commits that enterprise customers (GCP, Workspace) have their data firewalled off from ads. If you have evidence to the contrary, there are many, many companies and governments that would like to know.

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Post by TheDong »

keiferski wrote: post #615
lifeinthevoid wrote: post #605

My biggest gripe with AR products is that they will just become a tool to spoil the real world with ads everywhere. No thanks.

But many cities in the real world already have ads everywhere. If anything, a modified AR device could allow you to detect and remove those.

The public spaces are subsidized by advertising.

Filtering out billboards on the highway is reducing their impressions, and thus reducing the money that ultimately goes into repairing the road you're driving on.

The modified AR device will instead filter ads, but charge 0.03 cents per ad filtered, and each advertiser will get 0.02 cents each time their ad is filtered. Facebook of course keeps the remaining 30% for facilitating the ad and anti-ad marketplace.

Eventually there will be a bidding war where advertisers will require you to pay 0.10c not to view their ad, which they'll have made increasingly unpleasant to look at, and you'll have to adjust your device's balance and payment thresholds to avoid getting hit by AR jumpscares as you drive around.

Anyway, I pay on average $0.35c per youtube video not to look at ads based on the cost of youtube premium vs the number of videos I watch in a month, so honestly the above price-point seems like a good deal.

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Post by khafra »

baby wrote: post #603
threeseed wrote: post #388

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The haptic feedback you get from touching your thumb and forefinger to simulate a click is actually better than a button because it feels more organic and natural. Where it falls apart is not being able to feel yourself touching objects which nothing other than a full glove is going to be able to simulate. Controllers and rings provide no benefit over Apple's approach.

> The haptic feedback you get from touching your thumb and forefinger to simulate a click is actually better than a button because it feels more organic and natural. Where did you experience this? My only experience is with the Apple Vision Pro and it failed like half the time

The device may have failed to do what you anticipated, but the only way the haptic feedback failed is if you have peripheral nerve damage.

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Post by keiferski »

murermader wrote: post #625
keiferski wrote: post #615

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But many cities in the real world already have ads everywhere. If anything, a modified AR device could allow you to detect and remove those.

Complex solution to a simple problem. Just ban ads in cities. Like some cities have already done. Then the ads that are left are just for stuff that is important, e.g. events, music, etc. No need for AI filtering algorithms that have to decide what to block and what to leave.

Probably impossible in the US at least, as it would be considered a first amendment violation.
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