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> To use it, the wearer simply puts on the glasses while walking by people. The glasses then detect when somebody's face is in the frame. This photo is used to
by rikroots 2y ago
> To use it, the wearer simply puts on the glasses while walking by people. The glasses then detect when somebody's face is in the frame. This photo is used to analyze the individual, and after a few seconds, their personal information appears on the user's phone.
I have something called prosopagnosia - face blindness: while I know what a face is, and can read faces for emotional signals with no problems, the cabling between the face recognition areas in my brain and my database of facts about that face is sub-optimal. Where others can look at someone and immediately know if they know that person and what interactions they've had in the past - that doesn't happen for me. Instead I have to rely on other signals - their voice, the way they walk, typical clothes for that person, etc - to get the connection between person and my memories of that person.
Having a pair of glasses that could take the face of a person in front of me and (reliably) let me know I know that person, what their name is and what relationship we have with each other would be really useful. But if it can't do the matching in less than a couple of seconds then it's not going to be helpful to me - people can get really upset if their friends, relations, neighbours, etc don't know who they are within a second of that first contact.
I don't like all the other AI information gathering stuff. I just want the name of the face in front of me.
- 0xE1337DAD 2y agoCould be made a little less creepy if it had no internet access and you could load in new people as you interact with them so it uses a local cache for lookups.
- rikroots 2y agoExactly! Explaining to people that I'm face-blind is a chore - people often forget! Asking them if I can take a picture of them during that first explanation (which often starts as an apology) so that my glasses could try and recognise them the next time we meet would be a much happier approach, in my view. And keeping as much as possible local to the glasses - especially the face images ... I'm struggling to see a better solution!