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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by ang_cire »

anonzzzies wrote: post #747
ang_cire wrote: post #741

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> an annoying laptop See, I feel like maybe this is the disconnect I'm having from others who seem to enjoy AR/ VR. My laptop isn't "annoying" to me, it's fun. I want an excuse to use it, and it's customized out the wazzoo. Right now I'm building a cyberdeck using a FriendlyElec CM3588 and I'm making the case out of wood, after modeling it out in FreeCAD. I've been drooling over all the customization I can do with a…

Ah but that's another story :) I love custom builds and I love retro stuff. But that I do for fun as well. I modden a cf19 toughbook with a new screen, ble keyboard, mostly batteries and a rasberry pi for many day battery life. And my house is full with all kinds of modded computers, new and old. Just when I travel , which is a lot of the time, I don't want to take anything but clothes; the xreal is perfect for this.

Nah, for travel you sling your cyberdeck across your back like a guitar, and when someone's like, "what time is it in Tokyo?", instead of asking some lame AI in your glasses, you get to whip it off your back like you're about to launch into Stairway To Heaven, Ctrl+b+c into a new tmux window, and pull up the answer in Lynx in seconds.

...And you can't be wearing glasses, otherwise you can't pull your shades down afterwards as you shake out your mullet.

Reference cyberdeck to pull this off: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/10fk91k/cyberdec...

Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by tim333 »

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…

People with the Meta Quest 3 seem happy enough.

I've used Facebook for years and the worst that's happened is they've tried to show me some ads. I can live with the forces of evil knowing I've put up "hi mum, here's my hol pics" etc.

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Post by klabb3 »

adastra22 wrote: post #402
klabb3 wrote: post #289

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> The problem is that these companies keep wanting to put processing in the glasses. I agree. The obvious choice is to offload to our insanely powerful phones. Unfortunately WiFi is too disruptive on mobile OSs and raw Bluetooth is.. well does that even need an explanation? Apple are probably the only ones who could deliver a seamless high bandwidth link and decent pairing, atm. But they spent their prototype-billion…

These glasses are wireless.

Yeah, I know but with a puck, which isn’t feasible for consumer. A phone already has sufficient compute, but Apple and Google would need to provide/open up radio- and pairing protocols.

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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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Post by tjpnz »

gorjusborg wrote: post #488
moralestapia wrote: post #465

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>no guarantees anywhere in plain sight on privacy Elaborate. Do you mean this with regards to the data that users will generate when using the device? Or the privacy of the people around the wearer?

I could not care less about the the privacy of the weirdos who will try to wear these in public. I care deeply about the further normalization of surveillance capitalism. I try hard to be kind, but I will have very little patience for any individual who wears always-on cameras that infringe on my privacy. I don't use social media for a reason. Meta just wants to sell surveillance devices so they can collect more data…

>will have very little patience for any individual who wears always-on cameras that infringe on my privacy.

I'm not a violent person but wouldn't rule out using my fists if someone was filming me or my kids. That said, I live in Japan, so they'll more than likely be banned or heavily restricted like other devices used to make covert recordings.

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Post by philjohn »

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…

I think it's fair to assume this is where the VAST majority of the Reality Labs spend was going ... cutting edge R&D on getting this kind of form factor, whilst some others (who perhaps lack object permanence) thought it was all going on Horizon.

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Post by saikia81 »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #755

Nobody here is talking about all the sensors and cameras this thing has and how easily it can be used for unsolicited audio/video recording? For me this is the biggest reason why Google Glass and other such projects never took off.

People in the west walk with cameras in their hands all day - both in public and in private. I doubt it gives anyone pause.

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Post by noisy_boy »

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.

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