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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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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…

Wow yeah, there's no other way to take pictures or listen to music with environmental pass-through

Taking pictures of small kids is a different thing altogether.

Many of the shots you want are very fleeting moments that you won't get after you took your phone from the other room. Then holding a phone will often redirect attention on the phone or hide your face, and again you'll have lost the moment.

The best alternative is someone else taking the picture (that can include auto photographing devices, like the one Google made and discontinued), the second best is you taking the pictures/videos with the most intrusive and practical device you can get. Smart glasses sound pretty good for that.

On the music part, I see a niche where glasses are unbeatable: most buds need to either stick into the ear canal or hook on the external ear, or both. If you hate things in your ears and also wear glasses, having the glass act as headphones is the best of both world.

None of that is mainstream IMHO, but there will be a sizeable public clamouring for these.

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This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?" Imagine it’s 1992: Cookbook: Open book, follow steps. PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope the shareware recipe isn’t weird. Not saying you're wrong but its easy to miss the big picture

honestly cookbooks genuinely are better i got the art of italian cooking recently and it's genuinely far easier to get a recipe than trying to scroll through a 50 page monologue about the intracicies of someones childhood before even listing the ingredients

To note, you can buy the recipes and skip the dumpster internet or register to a site like cookpad. At this point even YouTube is a decent place for that.

I agree random recipes are hell on the internet, but it's also not something we're forced into if we care any bit about recipes in the first replace.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #287

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OP is taking videos of his baby with these when Meta's page here doesn't event mention data privacy or security of the user's information or how it protects them

All babies look the same, out of anything private you could film by mistake, a baby seems pretty harmless.

I disagree with your assumption, but you also need to consider that the baby is going to be a person for decades.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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That is the pretty close to the world we already live in. They call it then genz stare.

the millennials I know are worse than their children

For sure. Maybe it should be renamed the tik tok stare or something.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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I believe the wristband came from this acquisition: https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/23/20881032/facebook-ctrl-la... Insanely cool, and awesome to see a viable wave guide device. It's so cool that it might outweigh my reluctance to strap facebook to my face.

Disney is about to have a serious talk with Facebook. Disney Research has had a prototype on gesture detection via wristband electric sensing tech since 2012 : https://youtu.be/E4tYpXVTjxA?t=2m8s

Besides it being different technology, the original Myo wristband was also introduced around 2012. The parents were later acquired by CTRL-labs which was then acquired by Meta. So you can be pretty confident that they have the patents.

Although surface electromyography is quite a bit older than that.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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>Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eye…

Honestly, I’m an avid user of Ray-Ban metas and I agree that if Zuck doesn’t want to re-hash his old original sin (distracting algorithmic feeds) into this new form factor, he would block out any feeds and notifications from the glasses when it detected someone was talking to you, which the glasses can do really well. I’m hoping whatever answer Apple comes up with here has this behavior as default because they don’t…

>if Zuck doesn’t want to re-hash his old original sin (distracting algorithmic feeds) into this new form factor

Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason to expect different? To me this is designed for attention primacy, for exactly that purpose.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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> "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?" I still feel that way. I have cookbooks because I find the UX better than searching for recipes.

So I can read the 20,000 story about how the author was told this recipe by their brothers husbands step-grandmother while vacationing at the lake house with their golden retriever named Max before I can get to the recipe.

While this joke is never mentioned and is hilarious every time, you'd be hard pressed to find a recipe site that didn't have either a "print" or "go to recipe" button at the top.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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> Meta seems like one of the few large tech companies where if the whole company vanished, the world would be purely a better place. This is what I disagree with. Specifically, I don't disagree that Meta has caused serious harm. I just don't think we live in such a black and white world "where if the whole company vanished, the world would be purely a better place".

The tech contributions are fungible, to be honest. Sure, they're popular because ~Facebook~ Meta is a giant company, but if they disappeared overnight, other equally good solutions would soon take their place.

everything is obvious after the fact, yet still it was meta who made the contributions. and meta who made them stick. what other company has contributed more widespread, enduring, and game changing open source projects than meta? asking seriously here because the list i put up there is just off the top of my head.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #599

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 ove…

I was thinking today that I basically am going to have to start wearing one of those IR face blocker things around just to stop my visiage ending up in some god forsaken Meta server somewhere.

My god, how fucking grim our future looks. I miss when tech was fun.

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