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Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoDisorienting to see "open source" and "patented" on the same page.
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- goodpoint 4y agoThey patented the hardware and only the software is "open source". The MIT license does not provide license to use patents. It's really open source in the letter but not in the spirit.
- kreetx 4y agoLooks really good, anyone have first hand experience?
- achow 4y agoDetailed documentation gives lot more clarity on the components and how does it work. Example, the display that is being used: https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#display https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#display
- arnaudsm 4y agoIs there a demo video ?
- ge96 4y agoclosest thing I found so far, shows the real device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYI3DfHPyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYI3DfHPyw
- oldstrangers 4y ago"opto-mechanical" is a wonderful collection of words.
- intrasight 4y agoSo is the idea that this would work in conjunction with one's smartphone?
- traverseda 4y agoProbably a lot of the same use cases as google glass when you pair it with a smart phone. I don't think it's going to be "augmented reality", you're not going to have very much luck live-overlaying map data with the base unit. The built in FPGA means you can probably do some real time stuff if you really want. The FPGA+micropython means that there's a lot you could do on device if you put in enough development time and converted your code to run directly on the FPGA, but it probably works best if paired with a smart phone. Someone like google could probably get this doing real time text translation off that FPGA, but I sure can't. When paired with a phone you could use this to do real-time subtitles for the hard of hearing, display bike direction, there's all kinds of uses. Really all it has is bluetooth, the camera, some touch controls along the rim, and the display.
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- itomato 4y agoPaging Zach Friedman
- proee 4y agoThis looks like some kind of Luke-Skywalker Star Wars hardware.
- xezian 4y ago> For normal anticipated use, Monocle's battery will last for approximately 2 hours and can be recharged in its case up to 6 times. So only 12 hours of total use? Hoping it's a typo or not what it sounds like.
- jkelleyrtp 4y agoLike AirPods, the case has its own battery.
- xezian 4y agoOhh, that makes sense, thanks! If I owned AirPods or really any comparable product I probably would have understood right away.
- petethepig 4y agoI own airpods and I was just as confused.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 4y agoSomeone else answered, but here are some more details. Case has a 450mA battery in it, and a USB Type-C jack to recharge it. https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#charging-case https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#charging-...
- 88stacks 4y agoI would hope they include some basic apparel to wear the device. should one wear it as a pirate's eye patch?
- lanternfish 4y agoI think the idea is that it clips onto glasses
- UncleEntity 4y agoLooks like it has a clip to attach to the front of a pair of glasses. Obviously suboptimal, really needs to be integrated into some old-timey welding goggles for the steampunk vibe. At $349 it’s almost in the range where I’d buy it to play around with but I suspect it’d end up in a drawer like a bunch of other things that looked cool but I never got around to hacking on. Once the technology gets good enough where they can fit it into a regular pair of glasses then we can talk — though looking at this Bluetooth Aftershockz headset I use that day probably isn’t too far off.
- bleuuuu 4y agothey are actually releasing a glasses version
- petsfed 4y agoI suspect that fitting something like this into what looks like standard prescription glasses will require some advances in manufacturing optical materials. I think its already possible to make the appropriate lenses to sufficient precision, but the cost is a bit prohibitive. The other issue is that the projection display is a bit low-res for what I'd really like to see, but 1 pixel works out to ~0.5mm at 1m, so it might be ok. That might be precise enough for (for instance) identifying particular through-hole connections on a circuit board at a rework station. It's certainly adequate for identifying components on an engine.
- floren 4y agoI could combine it with the $200+ Twiddler keyboard that's been sitting in the drawer for 5 years, and maybe I'd be on to something!
- Manuel_D 4y agoThis is interesting, but I'm not sure what's the value add over a smartphone camera. Normally AR lets you project into stereoscopic vision and create 3d shapes in the user's vision - but the monocle sacrifices this. Perhaps portability, but it looks pretty chunky to wear. Smartphones are actually great for lot of AR tasks. Apps like the one that puts a chevron over mountain peaks when hiking continue to impress me. But it'd be cool if it finds niche - don't want to sound too critical.
- anigbrowl 4y agoNeat but (still) pricey. Not sold on the 640x480 display; it requires work to focus you eye to such a short distance and due to macular degeneration that will be increasingly impossible as you age. In my 20s I could focus on things a couple of centimeters (~1") away with the naked eye, in my 50 it's about 15cm (5-6"). You can still perceive color, movement etc so a ring of LEDs would convey information well, tut trying to read anything like a map or scrolling messages limits your market to the youth, and probably the myopic youth at that.
- sxp 4y ago> ...it requires work to focus you eye to such a short distance... Modern wearable displays have a focal distance between 1m and infinity to improve comfort. From https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#display https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#display > The result is a transparent floating display with a 20° field of view. About the size of a table display at arms length.
- Groxx 4y agoI'm fairly sure that quote is only to give a sense of how big "20°" is, as most people aren't intuitively familiar with vision cones. I can't find anything that actually states the focal distance, though I agree there's a decent chance it's at infinity.
- UncleEntity 4y agoI think the idea is to project the screen into space at a distance. The documentation shows something like this where the projection is off axis from the actual mirror doing the projection.
- oezi 4y agoThe biggest issue is the lack of a camera facing backwards to track your eyes. Without it you can't overlay accurately onto real objects.
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- ge96 4y agoThis is really cool almost urge-bought it. But I wonder what do I use it for? Looks like you can program it yourself so that's great. Get more familiarity with FPGA. I'm thinking about it. Well... I've supported SVR and Pine64 why not this. Nothing else can use it to record videos of my stuff working at workbench (not a lot of onboard storage though). Ordered one, will see how it goes. It definitely blocks a significant part of your vision but I figure I can toy around with it while I'm cooking food. 3D print some glasses for it. I would be curious if you bought two, could the two talk to each other... but the hardware kind of blocks your vision/does not seem ideal... still it's something to tinker with.
- randmeerkat 4y ago> Ordered one, will see how it goes. Do you have a blog, where it’s possible to see what you learn?
- ge96 4y agouhh... this is supposedly my non doxxable account but I will post a video on it on YT once I have it. I've done other devices eg. Pinephones/SimulaOS/Remarkable 2, so whenever I get this I will post it. looks like once bought they will ship from NY so I should have it in a week or so
- ge96 4y agoedit: SimulaVR software not OS
- mindwork 4y agoI'm confused why there is no YouTube in the social media section on the site. Demo video is what I need the most to make a decision about buying a product
- ge96 4y agoFound something (shows phone using some kind of app/terminal to connect to device updating firmware) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYI3DfHPyw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYI3DfHPyw
- Buildstarted 4y agoFound this on their instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS/
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago“For the imaginative hacker” Translation… we made some easy hardware, but software is hard and we’re not even sure what our device will be for, maybe this will be cool later?
- batch12 4y agoIt'd be cool if something like this could be used to selectively overlay thermal/ir/uv, night vision, or provide a colorblind accessibility tool. I think I would have a use for it then.
- pastdiscovery 4y agoIt already can be and has been done. Look at Mann's Thermocam EyeTap, or half of his other papers. He revisits mediating human vision with extrasensory overlays often.
- nmg 4y agoI'll never forget seeing Steve Mann roaming the halls and conferences at ACM '97 in his full gear [0], antenna rising above the crowd. I remember thinking, this guy might be on to something here... [0] http://cyborganthropology.com/File:Steve-mann-evolution-of-wearable.jpg http://cyborganthropology.com/File:Steve-mann-evolution-of-w...
- Miraste 4y agoI have some AR glasses that plug into a phone, and I've been experimenting with running the camera feed and using it as a third eye (looking up on shelves, eye in the back of the head, etc). It's less disorienting than I expected, and in an integrated product I'm convinced it would be useful. The camera in the Monocle is unfortunately very old and cheap, but a modern phone main sensor could do wonders for accessibility. Besides what you've listed, written text magnification and highlighting has huge potential.
- alchemist1e9 4y agoWould glasses like yours work for passive monitoring of some basic tui dashboards while hiking? The ideal time for my personal daily commute/schedule to go on a 45 min daily hike/walk is 8am-9am. However at exactly that time some important automated business processes occur (markets related) that it’s best I keep an eye on. If I could wear some glasses that display the information required safely I probably could lose 15 lbs easily as I’d be able to exercise regularly by hiking each morning, weather permitting. Since I also carry a MicroPC and LTE connectivity, and phone, so if I see a serious issue on AR glasses I could just stop somewhere and get access. Weird question I guess.
- l2silver 4y agoSo what kind of projects do people generally build for these type of OS AR devices?
- ge96 4y agoWhat I'm gonna try is text reading. Like send in snippets of text from whatever news/twitter... and read it while doing dishes/waiting for food to cook. (assumption from bluetooth connection from phone)
- alchemist1e9 4y agoPerhaps there is something already for this. Another comment pointed out that would be HUD not AR. What you describe is something I also want/need.
- ge96 4y agoYeah I can do python, have not used micropython and I have not worked with FPGA's before so that's not what I'm trying to do now. The micropython sounds more tangible to me. So I'm going to see about somehow feeding in text into the monocle via phone/BT... like an OBS situation. Then you could use your phone's screen as a mouse/input method. I know it seems pointless just use your phone... but you know... it's cool. I have to read the manual on this too.
- alchemist1e9 4y agoNreal Airs mentioned in another comment thread seem viable for the dishes problem. Thought I should mention to you.
- ge96 4y agoI saw those a while back looked interesting. I already pre-ordered a simula vr headset regarding both-eyes. I know they're not the same thing but yeah.
- danielnoiz 4y agoSomewhat related, this and Tilt Five[1] have me excited for the AR gaming space. [1] https://www.tiltfive.com/ https://www.tiltfive.com/
- latchkey 4y agoOMG that would make battle chess so awesome. Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcZwPb7C3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcZwPb7C3k Modern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmJ5gmfLHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LmJ5gmfLHM
- Groxx 4y agoTilt Five is a pretty impressive demo of how good (and cheap!) retroreflection can be, but tbh I think the format is just kinda unusable outside of demonstrations. It'll always be a "small" surface, or it'll take up way too much room that you can't use for literally anything else, as you risk damaging the surface. And when it's big, you lose a ton of usable space because you're seeing the far stuff at a sharp angle, so you can't render "big" things over there. Maybe a roll-down giant screen like for a projector display would work better, to give you a big virtual "hole" in a wall, but I've only seen it on those smallish tables. Possibly due to projection power/angle limits?
- ramesh31 4y agoWithout 6DOF tracking or depth mapping, this is just a HUD, not AR. Still neat though.
- ge96 4y agoYeah I'm curious about that, is an IMU enough to work well. The iPad/iPhone with the lidar it's rock solid when I tried it. I don't know if you can offload processing onto your phone with this, lag is not good or just not possible. IMU wouldn't make sense (phone in your pocket) but yeah. Not sure how you'd do the VIO without the I.
- Miraste 4y agoAn IMU is enough for 3dof, but not 6dof. An IMU and a camera is enough for 6dof but not on that FPGA.
- blensor 4y agoAre there any relatively low cost 6DOF standalone tracking systems in the wild? The closest thing I know are the Quest Pro controllers, but I don't understand why nobody is building such a thing as a plug an play solution that you can stick onto something and have immediate inside out positioning
- numpad0 4y agoSony mocopi QM-SS1 is kind of 6DoF standalone 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0d-x0l2HtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0d-x0l2HtA
- totetsu 4y agoIs that Motion Capture and Copy and the cute suffix -pi, together to make Mocopi..?
- blensor 4y agoIt's not exactly what I was aiming for. Mocopi, SlimeVR, Haritora X, ROKOKO etc. are all IMU based body trackers. So they try to infer a skeleton from the individual trackers but they don't provide absolute positioning. What I am hoping for is a single tracker that can absolutely position itself in the environment. Basically a self contained SLAM in a box
- AstixAndBelix 4y ago"A pocket sized open-source AR device" a sentence to get Californians and Texans both excited
- shikshake 4y agoI've looked around their website and the links people have commented here, but I've yet to see a video or image of the device actually working. I know it's hard to demo AR devices, but a simple video of a phone camera pointing through the device to show that there is actually content displaying would add much more credibility. Especially for $350 I need to see some sort of product demonstration.
- annon3845 4y agoIt's not much, but https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS https://www.instagram.com/p/CgAu-TTlBHS. They're not exactly helping their credibility with claims of 16x superZoom from a 720p camera.
- ortusdux 4y agoIt looks like it is actually a 5mp camera. Specifically a Omnivision OV5640. I wonder if it is a 720p camera at 16x zoom. https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#camera https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#camera
- Miraste 4y agoIt's a 5MP camera for still photos, limited to 720p for video--although the data sheet says it can do 1080p as well. Perhaps that's bottlenecked elsewhere in the system.
- canucker2016 4y agofrom https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#bluetooth-mcu https://docs.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle/monocle/#bluetooth...: It supports Bluetooth 5.2, up to 2Mb/s. 720p == 1280w x 720h * 3bytes (rgb) * 8bits/byte == 22.1Mb / frame So video compression is going to have to get more than ~10x reduction to fit into 2Mb/s and that's just 1 frame/sec.
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- com2kid 4y agoAs someone with only 1 eye, this is quite suited to me! I am actually sad that the previous crop of "low cost, slim, not earth shattering" AR glasses all died out. A camera built into one stem and some simple text displayed for one eye would suffice for a ton of use cases. A killer app for me would be floating name tags above people's heads, but I imagine that would require better HW than what is available here. I'd love to see what this looks like actually installed on glasses, in different configurations. Some simple AR use cases that I'd like to see: ] * Turn by turn directions * Incoming high priority notifications * Weather alerts * Front door notifications * Upcoming meetings * Interior building navigation * Shopping Lists (hard to do the interactions on this) The issue here is none of these are a killer feature, so I wouldn't be willing to pay more than a small premium to have them added on top of what I normally pay for frames, but since I already am paying $300-$500 for frames (before insurance), if someone offers the above for another $100 or $150, sure why not.
- dopidopHN 4y agoFun; I would just want to plug it to various device though MQTT and do trippy display.
- rodolphoarruda 4y agoAs a father of a kid with 1,5 eye -- my daughter's left eye stopped developing at young age so we missed the window of opportunity to have it corrected on time, so one eye does most of the heavy lifting for her, and the other eye can only see a blur -- your comment made me think of possible use cases for the monocle for her. Maybe notifications using colors and shapes that could be perceived by the underdeveloped eye. I believe the signals from the monocle would not interfere in any way with the good eye, so from a brain's perspective, both things could coexist independently. And, as you suggested, it could well be a "clip-on" addition to the frame itself. That would be nice.
- dylan604 4y ago>Shopping Lists (hard to do the interactions on this) with a companion app, you could scan the barcodes of the items as you place them in the cart, and then remove the item from the visible list in the AR HUD. shit, tie that into the actual store's check out system so you don't have to use their stupid POS self-checkout lines. just bag it up and be on your way. other than the products that are sold by weight, this seems like something we're missing out on as a species.
- comment_ran 4y agoWhat's the weight of it? Can I choose different shape of it? For example, rectangular one?
- hermes0 4y agoweight: 15g (see https://www.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle https://www.brilliantmonocle.com/monocle)
- comment_ran 4y agoThanks. It's on their font page indeed.
- comment_ran 4y ago2 cad + 2*25cents = 15.7 g
- Karawebnetwork 4y agoVery useful, thank you.
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- actionfromafar 4y agoI wonder why they chose the Nordic MCU.
- jeffreyrogers 4y agoIt comes with a bluetooth stack IIRC.
- patze 4y agoI recently build an AR indoor navigation system for people with cognitive impairments. Is there any way to include an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in this form factor so we can use VIO?
- thot_experiment 4y agoI want an open source monochrome vector display delivered by laser to my retinas directly. I would slambuy such a thing and dedicated the rest of my life to making the best pocketable chorded keyboard. I, like many of you, am very good at telling a computer what to do with letters and symbols. I spend a lot of time in voice calls and I often write little scripts while I'm talking to answer questions, ballpark numbers etc. That's not to mention the power of tools like Wolfram Alpha and Google. I would like that to be everpresent in my life. I know we'll get some semblance of this with conversational AI at some point soon, but for me I crave the determinism of real programming. I want to be able to summon a quake-style REPL from the sky at will, and while looking someone face to face google facts or compute probabilities. I want to be able to sketch algorithms while walking around in nature. (Intel was working on something like this at one point but sadly the project was abandoned)
- atoav 4y agoSeems like a good space for advertisement and pop ups
- birdyrooster 4y agoAren’t lasers high energy? Why would you ever want that pointing into your eye? Why not project regular light? Edit: never mind above TIL lasers are light and can be dimmed
- pastdiscovery 4y agoCan/has been done before. To make VRDs safe, they need to be dimmed with a filter, but it's achievable.
- sleepybrett 4y agoA bunch of research at the University of Washington in the mid to late 90s. Has a working display. http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd.html http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrd.html
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- iamflimflam1 4y agoOrdered one (I'm a sucker for tech) - will put up a video once it arrives...
- lucasgonze 4y agoI'm interested to see your unboxing.
- Digeridoo_92 4y agoI think this would be super killer out of the box if it did most of what Pebble smartwatches did/do.
- MR4D 4y agoThis just seems too good to be true. And why do they have a patent on it if it's open source? Do they mean just the code? (It only looks like it has the MIT license, so assuming just the code). IF it's real, then it's pretty neat.
- breck 4y agoPatented products are strictly worse. Imagine Monocle engineers come up with a slightly better design, but they realize it's not covered by their patent. What will they do? As soon as one has a patent, then they are incentivized to sell their patented thing, not to switch to the thing that is better for their customers. Patents are a way for lawyers to inject themselves where they don't belong to extract rent, making us all worse off. Patents are a negative sum game.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> What will they do? File a new patent?
- harry8 4y ago>> What will they do? >File a new patent? Maybe. That has non-zero cost and if the patent office is doing its job the new thing may not be patentable because it is better and there is prior art etc. etc. The original concern is valid w.r.t. patents in addition to the many, many other concerns surrounding how they are used nowadays and indeed how much BS there has always been since Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone idea from someone else at the patent office and then used patent enforcement to good effect. It is extremely widely believed around here that things are much worse with respect patents now. "Patents encourage innovation" seems to have become an idea that marks one out as unbelievably naive. Or a lawyer.
- traverseda 4y agoIt's not that much beyond what hobbyists are already making for HMDs.
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- the_arun 4y agoHonestly $349 is too expensive. Potentially < $100 would encourage DIY folks.
- numpad0 4y agoNot ideal but kind of understandable in my opinion, sourcing a nice microdisplay is hard without connections, and possibly some investment.
- NHQ 4y agoI'm holding out for full 480p
- danielEM 4y agoI like all these "cool" devices, love the idea, even got myself nreal air, but ... these are overpriced gadgets, I mean not worth the money that you have to pay for them as these do nothing well: not a good AR, not a good screen, not a convenient device, expensive.
- naravara 4y agoSame. They're neat tech demos, but aside from turn-by-turn directions I don't really see any of them being particularly helpful aside from being a novelty. I really don't get the demand for weird social overlays on top of people, that seems distracting more than anything. (Even demand for the turn-by-turn I think is largely driven by people allowing turn-by-turn to erode their natural sense of direction and ability to recall directions, but that's a separate point). There are some useful cases I can imagine, but they would require so much collaboration by other contributors who aren't traditionally inclined towards good UX and software, and would be so niche that I don't see them driving a successful consumer product. In those cases the hardware isn't really the hard question it's "how do we deliver great experiences that can accomplish this without a hitch and without getting in the way?" For instance, presenting overlays is very useful for something like an inspector to be able to easily cross reference maps, blueprints, and schematics. Uploading an instruction manual for building flat-pack furniture and have it able to literally tell you what to do. Meal prep services overlaying recipes. A tool for guided tours at museums (in which case you'd rent the AR device instead of owning your own). Maybe as a bike or running computer to overlay your time, speed, splits, or whatever. But these are all such niche use cases I can't imagine a company like Apple, that generally aims to have product lines that sell in the hundreds of millions of units, would ever be in that market.
- thaeli 4y agoMany of those are viable "enterprise" use cases.. which usually means expensive hardware, but we're already seeing several of those deployed. Microsoft seems to have made a very good decision with HoloLens to ignore the consumer market and aim entirely at enabling high-end stuff. Overlays for workers isn't common yet, but it is in use. And the Army isn't giving up on IVAS despite continued teething problems.
- bipop5000 4y agoVegeta What does your powerlevel say? its over 9000!!!!! is the first thing that came to my mind.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoThey need to make ones that are rounded rectangles in bright blue/green/pink colours!
- candyman 4y agoAnyone ever check out these Lucyd glasses? They are new, company is trying to make a push. Maybe the time is right? Always seems too early. https://lucyd.co/ https://lucyd.co/
- paulhart 4y agoThey’re just audio integrated glasses, rather than something with AR, sadly.
- mianos 4y agoIt has a 720p camera. Nothing on that web site is from the device.
- RobotToaster 4y agoIt seems disingenuous to call it open source when none of the hardware seems to be open source.
- RobotToaster 4y agoOkay, to correct myself, looking through their documentation it seems at least the electronics schematics are OHL-P, but they only provide PDFs, and no actual source files. There doesn't seem to be much on the physical hardware though.
- lucb1e 4y agoIs there a picture of this wearable being worn by someone, preferably with a resolution greater than 480x320 pixels at a distance where the torso is in view as well? I'm not uninterested, but at this price point, selling a ~400 euro device that I didn't know existed until 30 seconds ago takes a bit more convincing, especially with a gif showing 1.5x the original size and calling it 8x zoom. Seriously, the only two images I could find are 500x333 (the monocle comes in at 61x66 pixels if I'm being generous with the edges) where the person literally has to hold it up https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/62a8bb00db3e305d9e39175d_PurchaseImage_Monocle2-p-500.jpeg https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/62a... and 319x306 (crops to 20x20 pixels(!)) https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/6375077905ce4c0b0eb21e9d_IMG_1233%201.png https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/623cc6cc56889b045032bfc1/637... where there's again a hand hovering. It looks stable nor comfortable, to me, but I don't know, it's not like there's a video with someone casually wearing it while talking to the camera or doing something. Open source being listed as something you can toggle off is also a bit ironic to this FOSS advocate :-) but the spirit is there and it's definitely a selling point that it says the platform is under an MIT license! Let's get that app on f-droid and I'm curious to see it actually in any user's proverbial hands!
- ge96 4y agofrom their discord https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974081732171137075/1071353828374483025/IMG_8925.jpg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/974081732171137075/10...
- lucb1e 4y agoThank you! That instantly gives a much better idea of what it's actually like to have one on :)
- birdyrooster 4y agoWow this is cursed looking, I am afraid I wouldn't be able to take it off
- birdyrooster 4y agoThe zoom says 16x and yes it looks like 1.5x, it's weird. Seems like a scam.
- btavangar 4y agoCheck out the AMA happening in a couple of days! https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/10w3d9s/im_happy_to_announce_our_next_ama_meet_brilliant/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/10w3d9s/im_happy_...
- pard68 4y agoWas expecting a pocket sized rifle
- ranger_danger 4y ago> discord guess I didn't really want to contribute anyway
- davidhariri 4y agoI just ordered this to see if I can get my heart rate to show up on this while I run. It should be possible …?
- ge96 4y agoMight check their discord, there was a discussion on there about what can be drawn (at the moment). In the show-and-tell channel
- bottlero_cket 4y agoCameras are quickly becoming as ubiquitous and boring as light bulbs. I’m actually more interested in how a light bulb works than some of these projects that are targeted at software developers for learning purposes. There are tons of these dev hardware projects you can buy which usually are centered around having a camera. “Did you ever want to see in slow motion? Now you can.” “Never miss a moment.” Go ahead a miss the moment. Big foot is fake. There is not much point to this anymore. I see a lot of projects that hunt out developers as customers, but I can’t get excited for them most of the time. I think Playdate is one of the highest quality of this type of product. Behind that is some of the holographic 3D displays they are making now that use 3D pixels. They can go for $200. Pretty cheap. Augmented reality is very lame to me. I think most of the hope for useful AR applications has been snuffed out long ago. Its the same question asked a different way, “Why can’t you just google the answer? Why do you need to do x,y,z (go to college, call plumber, whatever)” The answer is, invariably, nobody has the data! A lot of good data is being held hostage or destroyed by greedy corporations. Its a winner take all world. Companies are reluctant to have a brand new game.
- bottlero_cket 4y ago> Nobody has the data https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plumbers-are-paid-so-much/ https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plum... “But the main reason plumbers are well paid is because they know the arcane secrets of plumbing fittings.”
- TheBlapse 4y agoThey have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/JS44fGjNSH https://discord.gg/JS44fGjNSH And an AMA on 9th February on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/10w3d9s/im_happy_to_announce_our_next_ama_meet_brilliant/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/10w3d9s/im_happy_...
- system2 4y agoWhy is this product's website hides the product pictures, videos, detailed explanations how it works etc.? It might get 500+ votes on HN but if you remove the votes I'd think this is a scam product from china. How can you guys even trust and upvote a strange site product with not even a proper footer or team info. They are asking $349 for this thing too.
- flippinburgers 4y agoTime for someone to invent glasses that adjust themselves based on where your eyes are focusing.
- lrvick 4y agoopen source eyeware... patented... Discord. Stopped reading.
- ShredKazoo 4y agoHow about an app for travelers that translates what people around you say in real time, then displays speech bubbles in your native language next to them?