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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by vincnetas »

keiferski wrote: post #630
murermader wrote: post #625

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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.

Is graffiti also freedom of speech? If i have a wall does it mean i can write whatever i want on it? I guess not. These are social norms. And we could decide that advertisement is not ok in public spaces like it's not ok to walk around naked.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by vincnetas »

jahlove wrote: post #576
OccamsMirror wrote: post #536

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Personally I miss the smaller devices. I wish Apple still made a premium spec small phone.

I'd settle for any small iphone in their lineup.

Go buy stash of iPhone mini 13 until stocks last.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by kn0where »

keiferski wrote: post #630
murermader wrote: post #625

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Plenty of US cities and towns have regulations prohibiting billboards.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by deutschepost »

rty32 wrote: post #608
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…

Guess what? Most people who end up buying this product won't care about any of these. (P.S. Apple is much worse than you think. Look up Apple's first party tracking.)

There is always a comment saying Apple is much worse than people think compared to Facebook or Google. But there are never any Sources. Google and Facebook track you wherever you go on the internet. You can't get away from it. Apple only shows ads in their App Store. And you can turn off Apples tracking in their Settings. How is that "Much worse than you think"?

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by tsimionescu »

benreesman wrote: post #358

I've long been a huge skeptic of the whole Metaverse project/undertaking, I think I've called it a smoking crater where ten billion dollars used to be. But this is really interesting: it sounds like the display works, and it sounds like the puck is workable, and it sounds like both can squeak above the line in terms of battery life. If those things are true I may turn out to have been completely wrong. I don't know t…

Given that this is AR, not VR, and that AR has never even been as popular as VR outside a few industrial niches, I don't think this should change anything in your estimate of the value. Despite all the hype, the only thing that XR has ever been mildly popular for has been VR gaming. AR glasses can't do that well, since everything is transparent, instead of making you feel like part of the game world, so I would personally bet these will be as DoA as a consumer mass market product as the Holo Lens was.

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Post by mucle6 »

zmmmmm wrote: post #483
regularfry wrote: post #115

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Worth pointing out, possibly, that it hasn't actually paid off yet.

If they stopped forward investment today, Reality Labs would be profitable just selling Quest hardware and software and Meta Ray Bans. The reason it loses money hand over fist is because they are not nearly done yet with where they want the tech to be.

Source?

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by chipdart »

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…

> Facebook just strikes me as a fundamentally different company. Even if I were to pay them for these glasses I would have no confidence that it wasn't just a gigantic suckhole being fed into their slush fund of data.

I agree, and to that I would add the way they've been contributing, if not actively engaged, to push reality-denying propaganda from hostile third parties, including state actors.

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by phs318u »

greatwhitenorth wrote: post #640
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…

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> You are all clowns who don't live in the real world.

From the HN Guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by taneq »

rty32 wrote: post #608
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…

Guess what? Most people who end up buying this product won't care about any of these. (P.S. Apple is much worse than you think. Look up Apple's first party tracking.)

Does Apple buy my transaction records from Mastercard to cross reference against my chat and email logs? (Serious question, I hope not though.)

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by Kiro »

jjulius wrote: post #342
Kiro wrote: post #280

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Thick rims like those are considered high fashion right now. It's the opposite of goofy and says a lot about the audience here that you're all oblivious to this fact.

>... and says a lot about the audience here that you're all oblivious to this fact. What does it say beyond, "This person doesn't pay attention to high fashion", and why does it feel like you're judging people for that? Who cares if people aren't into it? To my mind, your comment says a lot more about you than what ignorance to high fashion says about others.

It's obviously fine not to be into fashion, but if you're not, you shouldn't go around making judgment calls or confidently and incorrectly saying people wouldn't wear something for fashion reasons. It’s revealing in the sense that it shows how narrow-minded we can be, judging everything based on our own perspective and assuming it applies to everyone.
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