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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Re: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

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Post by tirant »

stiray wrote: post #886
zer0zzz wrote: post #874

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Did you just compare a Silicon Valley tech company selling ads to IG Farben? It’s very hard to take this post seriously even though your point stands.

Not only my point stands, I still remember a world almost without narcissists, people traveling for fun, not to take a photo to brag, times where people listened to doctors not some people recommending horse dewormer, UK not suffering due to Brexit consequences ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425058/ ), people actually bonding in person,... Or in words of Umberto Eco ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco ): “So…

Even if you don’t like it, idiots do have as much right to speak as any Nobel Prize winner. Not only that, the more they speak, the better, as the chances of stopping being an idiot increase. All Nobel Prizes were at some point also idiots, if they’re still not idiots today about some topics.

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Post by valval »

wredue wrote: post #856
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> next consumer electronics platform I really hope this isn’t the case. We have enough screens around us as is, the last thing I want is screens pressed up against my eyeballs

For your children’s children, AR is going to be a commodity product like cell phones are today.

Children’s children? What? Like 50 years from now?

These AR innovations are going to produce great value already 5 years from now.

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Post by smeej »

Back when Google Glass came out, I learned I was accidentally a good benchmark for wearable tech, in that if it's too dorky even for me, it's never going to fly.

This is solidly in that category. It's a good thing they don't mean to release it to the masses, but this is going to put a negative impression if the overwhelming majority of people who actually see the thing in real life.

Just a prediction, but Meta's going to regret having people wear this in the wild.

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Post by kridsdale3 »

RealityVoid wrote: post #890
stiray wrote: post #886

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Not only my point stands, I still remember a world almost without narcissists, people traveling for fun, not to take a photo to brag, times where people listened to doctors not some people recommending horse dewormer, UK not suffering due to Brexit consequences ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8425058/ ), people actually bonding in person,... Or in words of Umberto Eco ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco ): “So…

At most, it just laid bare to see what were the normal social interactions and thoughts of millions of people and made possible far more viral spread of ideas. On the last one, I don't even think it's social media's fault, it's probably the whole internet at large, it's just these sorts of interactions happen most there.

I have been active on internet forums since the mid-late 90s. Facebook and Instagram and their other social media didn't create any of those bad human traits, they were rampant to begin with.

What these normie-networks did do was make a UX for public posting so easy that scores of low-education users were able to be influenced and re-share low-infromation-quality stuff in huge magnitudes. FB is guilty of making a super accessible user experience, and then in not being aggressive early enough in having high standards for its userbase. But it didn't invent society's ills.

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Post by kridsdale3 »

hinkley wrote: post #883
zer0zzz wrote: post #874

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Did you just compare a Silicon Valley tech company selling ads to IG Farben? It’s very hard to take this post seriously even though your point stands.

The tech company that got Donald Trump elected, and helped make all of our grandparents into lunatics? That Facebook?

Wasn't that Twitter? You know, the site he actually used?

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Post by hackpert »

modeless wrote: post #683
jayd16 wrote: post #651

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The Magic Leap headset already uses essentially an LCD layer to add per pixel shading to add darkness. Even still, modern displays are so so good that an additive display is a massive step down.

Hard edged, per-pixel light blocking is impossible for the foreseeable future. What's possible today, and what Magic Leap has, is diffuse dimming of large areas of the display. The problem with light blocking is that when the blocker is millimeters from your eye it is completely out of focus. Unlike for the display, you can't use optics to make it appear farther away and in focus because the direction of the light it…

That's fair but what if you could estimate the direction of incoming light with other sensors? Using inverse diffraction etc. Just a thought

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Post by nick486 »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #866
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I don't think its comparable. phone cameras are assumed to be off, its pretty obvious when someone is recording a video, because he has to hold the phone in a very uncomfortable position. Unless someone is actively pointing their phone at you, you can reasonably assume you're not being filmed. this thing, on the other hand, is supposed to be on all the time. So having your head pointed in someone's general direction…

Exactly, I can imagine how people with smart glasses are not allowed in sensitive environments e.g. govt institutions or schools.

they will probably be discouraged in the workplace too. no one wants to be dealing with a sexual harassment case, just because someone didnt pay attention to the direction his head was pointing in, while reading some random article on his glasses' internal screen.

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Post by whiplash451 »

dkdbejwi383 wrote: post #832
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Have you considered the iphone SEs?

I had the first gen SE. Loved it. But the current model is based on the larger iPhone 8 shell.

I might see different models than you (I am based in EU) but I see 4.7” SEs on the Apple store. They’re pretty compact.

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Post by autoexec »

grecy wrote: post #895
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> Everything in earshot and eyeshot of these glasses will be surveilled. And ads will be plastered over everything in your field of vision. Honestly who would sign up for that?

Plenty of people pay money for smart tvs, Netflix, etc.

Smart TVs really are stupid, but at least netflix ads only show up when you're using netflix. AR glasses would plaster ads all over any show you watch on any platform, as well as on sunsets, walls, family members, etc.

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Post by AlexandrB »

marknutter wrote: post #839
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The negativity goes both ways. I wonder if Mark Zuckerberg will think we're "dumb fucks" for buying this new gizmo.

My god, he said that when he was in college. What is it with this recently popular opinion that nobody is capable of changing for the better?

Facebook's ongoing behavior towards its users is consistent with the original quote. I don't see any evidence that something has changed besides PR slop.
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