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I was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, an
by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I was one of the ridiculous-looking people who had a Google Glass when it came out. It was clunky, and lasted a very short time, and your face would get hot, and it had no real AR interaction with the real world.
But. If you could squint at the rough edges, and project forward what this could be like with more advanced tech, it was a no-brainer for me that it will be a far superior form factor for what we do with the phone. For 2 weeks, I tried hard NOT using a phone and just using it. While it was difficult (mostly because I couldn't have a conversation with anyone that didn't begin with them asking what was on my head), when I went back to the phone I so strongly noticed how much I was craning my neck, how annoying it was to interact with tech like that, and it kinda felt terrible.
- parl_match 3y agoGoogle Glass user here as well, and the one thing that form factor is missing is input (possibly solved by AVP with its eye and finger gestures).
- jeremyjh 3y agoThe Meta glasses don’t have a display, it’s just camera and audio.
- Animats 3y agoHuh? Then how do they deliver ads?
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- jeremyjh 3y agoPresumably they monetize by selling your real-time location and live video feed to your local surveillance authorities or political enemies.
- ponyous 3y agoIs there any source that can back this up? I can't imagine my local police paying to have live locations at all times.
- smolder 3y agoYou can't imagine police departments that buy stingray devices and spy illegally with them to also pay for surveillance data? Anyway for real time tracking, police stations can likely get the feds involved which get that info from your telco, who are best buddies with the federal government.
- ponyous 3y agoYeah... but I am not american, but from a tiny european country. Police makes some requests for data after the fact every year, but as far as I know there are no deals between police and giant american corporations. I'm probably naive.
- smolder 3y agoAh yes, sorry to assume.
- ponyous 3y agoThat's fair, we are on mostly American website after all! I'm just traveling through France and saw on the news that a woman disappeared. They are trying to find her by triangulating the last location based on nearby cell towers of where she was last seen. So even giant European countries can't/don't use facebook/google to locate people.
- SantalBlush 3y agoThey deliver ads to the people being filmed with the glasses, once they're identified and tracked by facebook.
- Gud 3y agoI wonder if Zuckerberg one day will wake up and realize what he's doing to the world.
- LASR 3y agoDoesn’t he already? And that’s why he’s doing what he’s doing?
- ImPostingOnHN 3y ago"To conclude, it’s worth noting that, at least for a time, product managers at Facebook — Russ’ job before starting DocSend — were required to read Snow Crash as part of their internal training."[0] I think he knows. 0: https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/ https://www.deaneckles.com/blog/700_docsend_in_snow_crash/
- surfingdino 3y agoKnowing and reflecting upon what you know are two different things. And even then the outcomes may be different than what you would expect.
- _flux 3y agoThey'll quietly whisper them into your ear.. !
- freedomben 3y agoWow dang, they really should make this more obvious. If I bought one and discovered that (despite being able to record and stream video) it had no display, I would be pissed.
- capableweb 3y ago> Wow dang, they really should make this more obvious. How? It's not mentioned anywhere that this is about displaying content, but it's very clear it's about capturing video and listening to audio only. Or you want them to put "Notice: No display is included in the device" on the landing page?
- darkclouds 3y ago[dead]
- OJFord 3y agoTo be fair the second sentence in the short top description is about staying connected with calls and messages. I don't think many people's first assumption (without any other context/knowing more) would be that that means having them read out.
- capableweb 3y agoThe full quote is: > Stay connected with hands-free calls and messages and listen to your favourite tracks through built-in speakers. Which makes it seem pretty clear they're talking about stuff you can do because of the speakers. Then later: > No more stopping to answer your phone. Also, make calls and send messages on WhatsApp, Messenger and SMS, completely hands-free – simply by using your voice.
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoThe first part seems intentionally ambiguously worded to be interpreted as: > (Stay connected with hands-free calls and messages) and (listen to your favourite tracks through built-in speakers) vs: > (Stay connected with hands-free calls and messages and listen to your favourite tracks) through built-in speakers So it's not clear from that wording that there isn't a display, or that the messages are read aloud. An unambiguous wording would be: > listen to your favourite tracks and stay connected with hands-free calls and messages through built-in speakers As, well, the below statement is true whether there is a screen or not, and also doesn't specify that the messages are read aloud: > No more stopping to answer your phone. Also, make calls and send messages on WhatsApp, Messenger and SMS, completely hands-free – simply by using your voice That plus the image of the screen floating next to the glasses definitely make it seem like marketing is trying to trick people into thinking there's a display without explicitly claiming it
- hinkley 3y agoI wonder if we will see an inversion of the clip-on sunglasses design but with corrective lenses. Clip your prescription to a pair of sunglasses instead, or to your smart glasses. You might have to clip them to the backside to get it all to work out. But in that case variations in lens shape will be less visible, because sunglasses.
- ojbyrne 3y agoMaybe I'm not sure what you're getting at, but you can order these with prescription lenses, either tinted or not.
- smeej 3y agoIf the sunglasses sit a normal distance from the face, most people's corrective lenses won't fit behind them. There's a reason over-glasses sunglasses are so big and clunky and ugly.
- hinkley 3y agoThese days, at least if you can afford designer, they use rare earth magnets and the frames are exactly the same shape. Since most glasses only grind the back side of the lens, they fit pretty closely together. Which is also why you wouldn't be able to reverse the position of the lenses without changing how they're ground (also thick lenses hidden behind the frame conceal just how bad your eyes are, which some people get self conscious about. Point was, if you wear a pair of glasses that people require you to take off regularly, you still need to be able to see, and that means carrying two pair of glasses. Transitions lenses exist in large part because people can't be arsed to carry around two pair of glasses.
- smeej 3y agoYou're missing the point. Corrective lenses have thickness. For the frames that use magnets to add a sunglass layer, they only work because it can go on the outside, with the lens already set in the frame at the right distance from the eyes/lashes. It just wouldn't work in reverse, to take a sunglass lens at the right distance and snap something in behind it. You'd get oily lash streaks all over the corrective layer constantly. It's even worse if you wear really thick glasses, because sometimes they even have to sit slightly proud of the frame in the front. Your solution just isn't viable for this problem, as any longtime glasses wearer could easily tell you. If that's not enough, there's a whole industry of people designing eyewear; you really think "What if you just added the corrective part inside the tinted part?" wouldn't have been done if it were viable?
- nickthegreek 3y agoI found google glass to be great. It had real world AR in directions. I used it several times in other cities to move about. I never really had any heat issues. I do wish we could have gotten a couple iterations, but that's Google for you.
- toast0 3y agoGoogle Wear is the second iteration of Google Glass, pretty much the same UI, but on your wrist instead of awkwardly up and to the right.
- _ea1k 3y agoI remember having similar thoughts about Google Glass despite never using it and never really wanting to use it. I mean, the concept seemed amazing, but it seemed clear that it needed to be combined with vastly more AI capability. All of the things that people imagined it doing were basically impossible. But now it seems like something much more powerful shouldn't be that far away.
- esafak 3y agoYou can talk to people with smart earbuds, with no invasion of privacy. edit: All right, all right! It's a fair cop.
- freeflight 3y agoYou can talk to people with smart earbuds, but you have no clue if those smart earbuds are recording what you say or not. The person wearing them could be on a call, and the caller on the other side would hear what you say. The person wearing them could be streaming to twitch, and everybody watching that stream would hear what you say. All while you assume that you are having a private conversation with earbud person.
- JohnFen 3y ago> You can talk to people with smart earbuds Which I don't do. If someone is wearing earbuds, that's an unambiguous signal that they don't want people talking to them.
- itomato 3y agoSomehow it didn’t stop millions of Angel and VC dollars from flowing. I worked at a such a startup. It was vapor. At least Glass had an API. I wonder if any of the VPs at Essilor and Meta who shook on this are still with their companies and if their bonuses are linked to adoption.