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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Eggpants »

bondarchuk wrote: post #652
seydor wrote: post #642

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It's more like, Meta gets people continuously wrong, like they did with metaverse. I dont think people like walking around with a teleprompter. At least when using a phone it's obvious what they are doing, and that's respectful. Plus, i dunno, i hate glasses that's why i did LASIK and it was the best decision ever.

There's plenty of people who don't mind using their phone in a socially disrespectful way. Maybe they got it right.

People don’t walk around pointing a live phone camera and microphone at people. Facebook got it wrong.

It’s takes special kind of dbag that thinks it’s ok to wear a Facebook recording device on their face.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by Quitschquat »

aacook wrote: post #99

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…

I am curious: does Meta deliver ads to you based on what you’re looking at?

For example ads for diapers while looking at your baby etc.

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Post by wpm »

cflewis wrote: post #102
blackqueeriroh wrote: post #68

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We all love to say this, but everyone forgets: Apple has never beaten competitors by being the first – they’ve beaten them by being the best. Personal computers? Apple wasn’t first. Smartphones with screens? Apple wasn’t first. Tablets? Not first by a mile. True Wireless Earbuds? Nope, not at all first. Smartwatches? Hell no, not first. And yet, Apple’s a category leader in every single one of these areas. I don’t th…

I think it's a "yes but" here. AI is the first transition point since the smartphone. Apple knows how to make hardware, and knows how to make software. I am extremely unconvinced Apple has a clue about what to do with AI. You can't just jump in, the lead up to getting this stuff going is a 5 year+ horizon, and Google, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are still moving exceptionally fast. Apple has shown they are nowhere nea…

There are a lot of AI companies that don't have a clue about what to do with AI. I would argue almost no one really knows what to do with it, which is why it's being shoehorned in everywhere.

I think Apple is being smart by sitting out this "light barrels of money on fire" phase, because we have no idea where it ends or whether it'll be worth a damn. Apple has a big enough warchest that once real solutions do start to coalesce out of the fog, they can just acquire what they need to build actual products.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by creaghpatr »

zmmmmm wrote: post #168
SchemaLoad wrote: post #116

>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…

I do think we're in for a bit of a reality check on how human attention works. I have a HUD in my car that shows me directions, speed etc and when I'm looking at that the rest of the view out the windscreen is hardly even there to my visual perception even though I'm looking right at it. This seems to be getting largely overlooked but I feel like over time statistics are going to emerge that HUD type displays are inc…

Meanwhile, I saw someone using their windshield mounted phone to watch videos while sitting in traffic yesterday (and driving erratically as a result which led me to notice). The self-driving cars can't come soon enough.

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Post by bilsbie »

I just decided I’m buying this just for the live AI. Assuming they fix the issues.

I’d use it for so many things. Cooking, repairs, maybe even motivating me to do yard work? A full time AI assistant is just such a crazy sci fi idea.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

strogonoff wrote: post #573
solid_fuel wrote: post #309

Meta locked two games I already paid for - Blade & Sorcery VR and Beat Saber - behind account verification on the Quest 2. I already bought both of these, played them for a while, but now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way. I will never bu…

Microsoft pulled the account verification trick with Minecraft after forced account migration a few years back, locking accounts and forcing customers to verify mobile phone number to even launch the game.

Yea, that was a major pain. I had a Mojang account since basically day one when the Minecraft beta came out and then over 10 years later I want to boot up the game to play with some friends for nostalgia and my account no longer works.

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Post by dylan604 »

wrboyce wrote: post #579
geuis wrote: post #138

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Yup. I can go to any other of billions of domains in the world and just see the url, but because Google and Apple have a special compensatory friendship we can't do that.

I use Kagi so I don’t get the search terms in my address bar, I get the full url like you would any other site, and I find it very annoying. Well, I did, I’m used to it now but it is definitely a step backwards imo.

To me, combining the search bar into the url/location bar was the step backwards. i'm not a mobile first user, so it just makes no sense to me. there are many times i've wanted to just use the url for quicker navigation with things like pagination and other forms of updating the url to the page I want rather than clicking type buttons. there are plenty of other types of non-hacking url updating directly that the hiding of the url is annoying

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by bilsbie »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #601
solid_fuel wrote: post #309

Meta locked two games I already paid for - Blade & Sorcery VR and Beat Saber - behind account verification on the Quest 2. I already bought both of these, played them for a while, but now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way. I will never bu…

Switching from just basic Oculus accounts to Facebook accounts was the dumbest move, I say that from someone who was really enjoying the Rift and Quest 1 hardware. Whole thing was pretty effortless until that moment, then logging into it became this massive chore where you're bounding between the phone and headset twice, really tedious if you're not a big facebooker so haven't used their login flow in years and it wa…

A lot of big companies make this mistake and dont see how it hurts them.

I’m almost at a tipping point of leaving windows because of the weird account integrations.

Even my Mac nags me to log in. Why do I have to log in online to use a computer? This bothers gen x at least.

And I use google products way less than I would because of all the login requirements.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by bilsbie »

Any chance someone could root this and run open source software connected to user controlled AI?

I love the product but hate all the privacy issues and just not being in control of such an intimate device.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by jajko »

drdaeman wrote: post #145
SchemaLoad wrote: post #116

>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…

> 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 eyeballs and you. They wouldn't do this if the conversation is important to them. Not as much as one would glance on a smartwatch when they get a chirp, which, I believe is perfectly socially acceptable in most business/casual situations. And if the…

No its not perfectly socially acceptable, in contrary. Rude is the best description, be it personal or professional life.

When I see such person who simply can't resist looking at their displays during conversations, I know I am seeing a hard addict with host of other attention disorders. And the fool is feeding those, actively making them worse for some ultra short dopamine kicks that keep getting shorter till they make new baseline.

Not a stellar person in any meaningful way, rather an addict or an asshole. So much for perfectly acceptable.

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