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Direct competition for https://www.bynorth.com/focals https://www.bynorth.com/focals. Not sure how North (fka Thalmic Labs) competes?

by narak 7y ago

1023bytes 7y ago
North Focals are technologically far ahead with the projection display
- newsbinator 7y ago
  These look interesting. If they had some kind of dev kit, buying them would be a no-brainer for me.
sdinsn 7y ago
Those have a display though
bearcobra 7y ago
Now that you don't have to go to a showroom to get them, I'm super tempted to try these out. Anyone have any experience with them?
- TallonRain 7y ago
  I have a pair. They’re pretty neat and my general take on them is that they show some great promise for the principle of the technology and North’s implementation works as advertised. I particularly appreciate the notifications and ability to make some quick text messages with it. I look at my phone a bit less now because of it, which is nice. I’m mildly skeptical of the ring controller and I have had a couple of them break on me. However, their customer support has been great and they replaced them immediately with no problems whatsoever. Overall though it’s pretty solid and I sometimes catch myself missing the ring if I’m not wearing it, but that might just be my fidgeting habit. North definitely sold me on the concept and I’m looking forward to more advanced implementations of the technology going forward. I’m not completely sure if I would recommend any of these glasses products coming out (like from Amazon or North or Facebook) to my friends at this time, but if you’re curious about them or if you like having the cutting edge, then they’re absolutely worth a look at least. If anything, the display will be a cool thing to experience if you haven’t seen it before.
mirimir 7y ago
This seems great. Now, if I could just have a smartphone that wasn't a tracking device. That used a LEO network that couldn't geolocate phones accurately. And anonymous accounts, payable with untraceable digital cash. But maybe I'd settle for a device that only connected via open WiFi, and routed traffic through VPNs and Tor.
pj_mukh 7y ago
Amazon is massively invested in North. Pretty sure they are working on expanding the same market instead of competing (and then combining efforts).

Direct competition for https://www.bynorth.com/focals https://www.bynorth.com/focals. Not sure how North (fka Thalmic Labs) competes?

by narak 7y ago

Direct competition for https://www.bynorth.com/focals https://www.bynorth.com/focals. Not sure how North (fka Thalmic Labs) competes?

1023bytes 7y ago

North Focals are technologically far ahead with the projection display

newsbinator 7y ago
These look interesting. If they had some kind of dev kit, buying them would be a no-brainer for me.

sdinsn 7y ago

Those have a display though

bearcobra 7y ago

Now that you don't have to go to a showroom to get them, I'm super tempted to try these out. Anyone have any experience with them?

TallonRain 7y ago
I have a pair. They’re pretty neat and my general take on them is that they show some great promise for the principle of the technology and North’s implementation works as advertised. I particularly appreciate the notifications and ability to make some quick text messages with it. I look at my phone a bit less now because of it, which is nice. I’m mildly skeptical of the ring controller and I have had a couple of them break on me. However, their customer support has been great and they replaced them immediately with no problems whatsoever. Overall though it’s pretty solid and I sometimes catch myself missing the ring if I’m not wearing it, but that might just be my fidgeting habit. North definitely sold me on the concept and I’m looking forward to more advanced implementations of the technology going forward. I’m not completely sure if I would recommend any of these glasses products coming out (like from Amazon or North or Facebook) to my friends at this time, but if you’re curious about them or if you like having the cutting edge, then they’re absolutely worth a look at least. If anything, the display will be a cool thing to experience if you haven’t seen it before.

mirimir 7y ago

This seems great. Now, if I could just have a smartphone that wasn't a tracking device. That used a LEO network that couldn't geolocate phones accurately. And anonymous accounts, payable with untraceable digital cash. But maybe I'd settle for a device that only connected via open WiFi, and routed traffic through VPNs and Tor.

pj_mukh 7y ago

Amazon is massively invested in North. Pretty sure they are working on expanding the same market instead of competing (and then combining efforts).