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It looks cool, and I approve of most stuff that brings us closer to the cyberpunk world of my dreams but: Starting at 699$ damn that's pricey considering phone
by fennecfoxy 3y ago
It looks cool, and I approve of most stuff that brings us closer to the cyberpunk world of my dreams but:
Starting at 699$ damn that's pricey considering phones are already stolen out of people's hands/off tables in busy cities, do they think a thief won't rip this off someone's shirt if they see it?
The display: pretty cool, but tracking seems a bit wobbly, I haven't seen a demo of it in bright sunlight and idk if it would do that well.
Chest mounted camera: I mean being able to hold up something and ask it questions is pretty cool, like identifying something, or getting the price of an item from a store vs online to make sure you're paying a good price, etc. Would be great for travelling.
The translation: maybe just demo but it's too slow and it doesn't show what happens when you walk through a crowded market or airport with tonnes of people speaking in diff languages, you bump into someone behind you and they say something in Spanish. How does it know to translate? You would, because you felt the bump, but the device didn't.
Hand gestures: these always suck and never work well. You always end up doing things you didn't intend unless you interact with it unnaturally/according to its quirks.
Asking it questions etc: our phones do this already with Siri/Google ass/Bixby. And I'm sure plenty upcoming as LLMs/elevenlabs style voices are used.
"Make me sound more excited" dystopian lmao.
"Catch me up": "Jane said to remember to get the report done for next week. Thomas and Aaron won't to know if you're still up for the movie tonight. BigBuns27 said thanks for railing me so hard last night big boi" yeah I want that potentially coming out at any random time during the day.
My conclusion: this is fluff, we already have powerhouses with long ass battery life in our pockets already. The real side of this is an accessory that lets us interact with our phones faster and more naturally. A chest mounted camera is fine but still not as good as glasses/contacts which can see what we see, very important because we'll usually be looking at something. Glasses/contacts can also provide silent HUD help, they're much easier to provide consistent display experience vs projecting from a moving torso to a moving hand.
I may be biased as someone who already wears glasses but damn was I sad when Google Glass got ridiculed (mostly by older gens) as if they'd continued & an improved version was out today I would 100% own one and develop whatever I could for it.
Being able to look at something in another language and have translations superimposed over, be walking around an unfamiliar place and have subtle direction hints provided, would be amazing. Combine with bone conduction speaker and some sort of subvocalisation system to ask questions/give commands and it would be absolute fire.
I don't want this weird kickstarter-esque device; I want Google Glass back ;~;