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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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numpad0 wrote: post #827
Youden wrote: post #413

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You mean a HUD projected on the windshield itself? That's not my experience with it at all; I don't have to "look at" it, when my eyes are focused on the road in front of me, the HUD is sharp enough and positioned so that I always know my speed etc. without having to actively look for it. Your car might have settings to adjust it somehow, have you tried those?

Not necessarily disagreeing, but I'm not sure automotive HUD technically qualifies as one. Airplane HUDs occupy center of the vision, literally showing where you're going. Car HUDs don't, and instead stay out of sight, as it's illegal to do in cars what they do in planes. That makes car HUDs just heads down display that happens to be transparent.

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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by evilfred »

dennis_jeeves2 wrote: post #737
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…

>Meta seems like one of the few large tech companies where if the whole company vanished, the world would be purely a better place. In the 'developed' world I'd extend that concept to many other other organizations. Around 90% of the work they do is useless or harmful: banks, govt, fast food chains etc.

banks protect your money so you don't have to keep it under your mattress and get easily stolen. governments build roads and give you clean water. what are you on about? you know Walden was a total lie right?

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by evilfred »

pj_mukh wrote: post #706
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…

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 wasn't Zuck he wouldn't be Zuck

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by evilfred »

bko wrote: post #814
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…

Billions of people voluntarily Meta products every month. They invented React, React Native, PyTorch, GraphQL, Cassandra, Presto, and RocksDB just to name a few. HN reader: the world would be a better place if they didn't exist Peak Hacker News hubris.

All of those would keep on existing if Meta died today, so who cares? Are you saying we have to keep permitting Meta to help governments oppress people and enable teen suicides just in case we get another React? that is silly

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

bchris4 wrote: post #527
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #152

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I use shockz for running - stable and your ears are totally unobstructed.

Yea AirPods transparency is great, but Shockz is another level. It’s even better than the ray bans because other people can’t hear the audio, and way more comfortable than any in-ear ones.

Sadly (or not, depending on your bent, I don't mind it at all), their latest versions feature a back firing driver that pairs with the bone conduction, I assume because that was the only way to get better sound quality. You can, however, still throw it in bone conduction only mode.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by lm28469 »

Piraty wrote: 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…

> everybody wearing this in europe

The whole 17 nerds who will buy this toy will have to do that yes

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by explorigin »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #654
danjc wrote: post #432

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It looks like true 0-temperature (i.e. determinism) will happen. Here's some good context: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

But 0 temp is much less "Creative" and may not be conducive to showing off the AI's latest tricks

True. It depends on the feature you're demoing...but determinism is a VERY DESIRABLE feature for giving demos.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by klabb3 »

exitb wrote: post #343
zmmmmm wrote: post #81

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If you watch it carefully, he preempts the AI with "What do I do first" before it even answered the first time. This strongly suggests it did this in rehearsal to me and hence was far more than just "bad luck" or bad connectivity. Perhaps the bad connectivity stopped the override from working and it just kept repeating the previous response. Either way it suggests some troubling early implications about how well Meta…

The way he clung to „what do I do first” makes me think that the whole conversation was scripted in the prompt and AI was asked to reply in specific way to specific sentences. Possibility not even actually connected to the camera?

I distrust meta (and hate these voice assistants) as much as the next guy but to me it’s obvious that you would prepare the prompt and use pretty much the exact phrasing. Also, repeating yourself is normal if there’s no response at all. If it was truly all fake why not just cheat outright and just prerecord all of it?

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by bigshot »

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…

Wait… you’re praising the audio? Mine must have something wrong with them. I cannot listen to music or any audio really unless I’m in a silent environment. If I’m outside and there are cars driving by, or wind, or any other ambient noise, the glasses speakers aren’t loud and full enough for me to actually hear anything at a level that I would deem appropriate. And when you max out the volume, the audio breaks down —- any bass gets squished and the whole soundstage sounds like crap.

Do yours actually sound decent? Maybe I need a new pair. Or maybe I’m just too picky.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by neilv »

postexitus wrote: post #629
zmmmmm wrote: post #197

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That's about gen 1, gen 2 is vastly more successful

Is it? I've seen zero people wearing them in central london.

I haven't noticed anyone wearing them in real-life, despite walking every day in a concentration of university/college campuses (Harvard Square, USA, and surrounding neighborhoods, sometimes including MIT).

I've only noticed some influencers wearing them in Web videos, where they look prominent, like I should also be able to recognize them in-person.

Maybe people are only wearing them at home or in the office? Maybe it's mostly a California techbro regional thing?

Maybe I'm not paying enough attention. I will start consciously looking for them.

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