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I know it's a prototype, but yikes those are large and goofy looking. Reminds me of the old 80's NHS glasses in the UK (which you could get for free if you cou
by Twirrim 2y ago
I know it's a prototype, but yikes those are large and goofy looking.
Reminds me of the old 80's NHS glasses in the UK (which you could get for free if you couldn't afford otherwise).
Or for those of you old enough, Brains from the old Supermarionation versions of the Thunderbird show (https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article8451975.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/GL1149271.jpg https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article8451975.ec...)
- roughly 2y agoIn the army, they were BCGs - Birth Control Glasses.
- Gracana 2y agoYup. My first thought was that they look like "BCGs". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_glasses
- barbecue_sauce 2y agoThe 60s-era designs don't look all that different from some of the fairly popular current Warby Parker designs.
- squeaky-clean 2y agoI bought a pair of glasses last week that look exactly like the 60's photo, but with a brown frame. Wasn't familiar with GI Glasses before, I just think that design looks cool.
- meindnoch 2y agoThe GI on the Wikipedia page looks straight out of some 2010s urban fashion lookbook with these glasses.
- globular-toast 2y agoThat's how fashion works. If someone is indifferent about what you wear today then expect them to be indifferent about it in 5-10 years too. But if someone makes fun of it today expect it to be fashionable within 10 years. I hate owning too many socks so I would wear "long" socks with everything, including shorts. I would also tuck my trousers into my socks when cycling. This was considered a massive faux pas 10 years ago. Guess what the youth do today? Yep, long socks are in!
- andoando 2y agoExcept 4x thicker
- herewulf 2y agoNo, looks to be almost the exact dimensions of the MS9. Would definitely be indiscernible in feel too.
- baby 2y agoWanna see the first prototypes for mobile phones? And even then it's really good compared to a Quest, but def. not good enough if you're going to wear this on the daily
- neom 2y agoMy dad ran a hospital and literally had one of these things: https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/IMG_9034.JPG https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/IMG_... - Things seem to move so quickly these days I'd guess the Orion things will be reasonable to buy in 6/7 years. Getting old sucks!
- stevage 2y agoThe benefit of a mobile phone was extremely obvious to everyone as soon as you said what it was. I've been reading about AR for years and I still have no idea how, if at all, I would use it. Never really come across a use case that's compelling for me. Getting WhatsApp messages without taking my phone out of my pocket feels like the opposite to the direction I'd like to move in.
- jfim 2y agoYou could have things overlaid on top of real life content in order to provide you assistance, hands free. For example, think about GPS turn by turn navigation while walking or having a recipe displayed while cooking it.
- Loughla 2y agoFacial recognition is the killer app for me. Being able to keep track of people and their information would be amazing.
- tonypace 2y agoThe problem is that people would really dislike that. It's even satirized in Snow Crash in an extremely unflattering portrayal of the kind of person who would routinely do this.
- mellosouls 2y agoThe Meta ones lack the obligatory sellotape over one side though.
- corobo 2y agoMy first thought was Bart Simpson becoming a nerd that one time https://img.cohan.dev/qFlL7.jpeg https://img.cohan.dev/qFlL7.jpeg
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoyes same!
- kronk 2y agoI think adding a rubber nose and a fake mustache would make them perfect!
- zombiwoof 2y agoHonestly they need to do that
- bee_rider 2y agoIt still seems like an improvement though. They could be mistaken for very unfashionable glasses. That’s so much closer to what people want, than Apple or Microsoft’s headsets. Actually it is a little bit annoying, people might actually get away with wearing these things, which means Facebook spyware might be entering everyday life. I’m glad I’m too old for parties.
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- sleepybrett 2y agothey need a big glob of white tape right over the nosepiece.
- xtracto 2y agoThe problem is that these companies keep wanting to put processing in the glasses. The glasses should only have the minimum circuitry to send, receive and render very high definition video. All the processing should be done in another device (like the arm band) that is carried nearby (like the wireless microphones they use in TV or concerts: https://www.amazon.com.mx/UHF-Wireless-Microphone-System-Kit/dp/B08YZ4QX23?th=1 https://www.amazon.com.mx/UHF-Wireless-Microphone-System-Kit... ). That way you are not CPU constrained. I would say have a "cache level" like combination: * very low/few computation done at the glasses level * medium computation done at the brick unit level * hard/intensive computation done in the cloud.
- ac29 2y agoIs it feasible to do wireless transmission of video at extremely low latency? Wireless microphones are not a good comparison because they are probably analog, but even if they are digital a few dozen milliseconds of delay is going to be imperceptible for audio in a way that video is not.
- jayd16 2y agoThat's how it actually works and they mention low latency a lot.
- klabb3 2y ago> The problem is that these companies keep wanting to put processing in the glasses. I agree. The obvious choice is to offload to our insanely powerful phones. Unfortunately WiFi is too disruptive on mobile OSs and raw Bluetooth is.. well does that even need an explanation? Apple are probably the only ones who could deliver a seamless high bandwidth link and decent pairing, atm. But they spent their prototype-billions on a headset instead. On the other hand though.. do we really need to run multiple cameras and a realtime image processing pipeline to say that the cacao on your countertop is, in fact, cacao? These AR “experiences” make cool demos, but once the novelty wears off, nobody wants to play planetarium or anatomy class for hours a day. Note that without the whole AR part of it, there’s still some really cool hardware for all kinds of purposes. That can be really handy when you want or need both hands free. For instance POV video for say sports, HUD and voice interface for eg cycling, maybe watching videos while working, anything requiring gloves (cold, wet hands, gardening) todo-list in the corner of eye when shopping, etc etc. You could reduce form factor and increase battery time significantly, even if you keep accelerometer, gyro, projector, light sensor, cameras etc. But for some reason, utility is not even a priority with these companies.
- Kiro 2y agoThick rims like those are considered high fashion right now. It's the opposite of goofy and says a lot about the audience here that you're all oblivious to this fact.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoThere's a reason they call it high fashion and not just fashion. But granted, maybe theres some billionaire bubble that's in on the joke and loves the look of this.
- buzzerbetrayed 2y agolol. These glasses aren’t “high fashion”. But it’s funny to see you look down your nose at people to try and convince them they are.
- grahamj 2y agoI dunno, I think to want to wear these you'd have to be high
- bigstrat2003 2y agoIf anything, high fashion is extremely goofy. Have you seen the stuff those people wear?
- Xenoamorphous 2y agoWhat is considered “normal” clothes today was probably considered “goofy” by many/most at some point.
- mr_toad 2y agoModern men’s clothing often originated as work clothing (e.g. jeans) or military clothing (e.g. chinos), or something with practical use (ties stopped you spilling food on your shirt).
- impulser_ 2y agoThis is common with everything new tech. The first laptops, the first phones, the first iPhone, the first iPod and so on started out large.
- wewtyflakes 2y agoThe first iphones and ipods were stunning for their time; they changed the industry and people would wait for hours on end in line at stores. It seems like a reach to compare these glasses to that.
- jayd16 2y agoPerhaps but they weren't the first in the category. Apples iGlasses will probably be sleeker.
- impulser_ 2y agoI'm not comparing actual devices. I'm comparing how large they were when they were first released. The original iPod and iPhones were bricks compared to what the latest/last versions and it didn't have a touch screen and cameras. The point is, the size of new technology tend to shrink fast.
- wewtyflakes 2y agoThe first iphone famously had a touch screen, and it was smaller than the current iphone 16.
- kentm 2y agoYou are incorrect about the original iPhone. It was marginally thicker but it had smaller width and height than current iPhones.
- grahamj 2y agoyeah and the 16 Pros got even bigger this year!
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- modeless 2y agoThey are as small as the technology can be made today. Meta knows that they are still too big. Zuckerberg said on stage that they will attempt to miniaturize them further and this is not a consumer product today. Making them as small as they are is an incredible feat actually. They are better than Hololens in every respect and Hololens is absolutely massive in comparison. There are at least 5 cameras, two HD projectors, an IMU, microphones and speakers in this thing plus the chips and batteries to run them all continuously for two hours.
- Invictus0 2y agoIt's not that much bigger than the prada frames on the sunglasshut bestsellers page: https://www.sunglasshut.com/us/best-sellers https://www.sunglasshut.com/us/best-sellers
- jazzyjackson 2y agoNow that you mention it I can see from Prada's side they need to get out ahead of the clunky AR goggle game and make it a fashion statement and meet the technology in the middle once it's miniaturized a little more Meta's got the RayBans colab but they're gonna need the Prada colab if they want to sell at 5 kilobucks
- zmmmmm 2y agoI was an early adopter of the Galaxy Note which looked outlandishly large and goofy, back when people still spoke in awe of how Jobs made the 3.5" iPhone to fit the human hand naturally and no other form factor could possibly be right. Fast forward today and nearly every phone looks like a galaxy note. Turns out when the utility is there, people will adapt.
- cubefox 2y agoOr the Dell Streak with its "huge" 5 inch screen in 2010. A "phablet". Today it would be considered on the smaller side.
- OccamsMirror 2y agoPersonally I miss the smaller devices. I wish Apple still made a premium spec small phone.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThose of us with larger hands are happy with larger phones with bigger screens. But even people I know with smaller hands generally prefer larger phones, probably for the same reason most PC computer users prefer larger monitors rather than the 14" monitors of yesteryear.
- al_borland 2y ago
- dartharva 2y agoIt's because the lenses aren't transparent OLED displays like the ones LG is making. The images on the "screens" are literally being projected by small projectors fitted into the frame onto the lenses.
- ErigmolCt 2y agoI don't know, right now I'm more interested in the capabilities of these glasses. But the video showing people's reactions to using them... That's what seemed a bit strange to me. Or you sat "goofy".
- thomastjeffery 2y agoThat's why this AR sunglasses bid is absolutely the wrong move. Someone needs a lesson about the uncanny valley. Short story: unless you are all the way at the top go down, not up. Lean into the goofiness that your limitations demand. Make a decent new thing, not a strange old thing.
- kagakuninja 2y agoUS military used to issue glasses like that, which were known as Birth Control Glasses...