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Social Video Sharing Glasses

22 points by jonmrodriguez 14y ago

jonmrodriguez 14y ago
Streaming MJPEG to an iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNXXXZqB9c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNXXXZqB9c The glasses that ship will of course be more aggressively miniaturized than the prototype seen in that demo video.
- graup 14y ago
  Do you have images / 3D renderings of the current design? Would be a good thing to add to the indiegogo page. Apart from that... thumbs up, great work!
  - jonmrodriguez 14y ago
    3D renderings appear at timestamp 1:55 of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-quJ8nuis&t=1m55s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-quJ8nuis&t=1m55s Thanks! Please support us by ordering a pair! :)
- dclowd9901 14y ago
  Not to be snarky, but that kind of knowhow requires a bit more proof, especially if you're 1) Up against Google Glasses and 2) Asking for people's money up front. What sort of background do you guys bring to such a steep industrial engineering endeavor?
  - jonmrodriguez 14y ago
    Erick's background is 3D graphics, especially procedural geometry. He made the muscle and skin system that is Venom in Spiderman 3 and Sonny in I, Robot, he made the waves in Surf's Up, and much more. Scroll to the bottom of his youtube channel and you can see a lot of his work that's appeared at SIGGRAPH and in film: http://www.youtube.com/user/erickmiller/videos http://www.youtube.com/user/erickmiller/videos He also has a global MBA from UCLA & NUS, and has managed teams of 20+ engineers while still coding hands-on every day. I just finished the CS honors program at Stanford (invented a more realistic 3D display, partially mentored by a founder of Lytro). My background is robotics, EE, AI, and a tad of mech and bio. Some of my work, including a link to the thesis: http://www.quora.com/Academia/What-does-it-feel-like-to-leave-an-academic-position-and-go-for-an-industry-job/answer/Jon-Rodriguez http://www.quora.com/Academia/What-does-it-feel-like-to-leav... Some previous projects include putting self-evolving code in a walking robot to make it constantly learn to walk faster in adaptation to hardware injury, developing a long-range body-tracking sensor system for search and rescue robots, genetically engineering a coliphage virus, creating part of a compiler for DNA, writing an app for our glasses that uses facial identity recognition to get the Facebook profile of the person you are looking at, and assembling a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation brain booster that Erick and I use to be smarter. Our PCB engineer designed the rocket controller for the SpaceX Falcon 9. Our augmented reality expert has built and architected AR systems for 13 years, since before the term "augmented reality" existed, back when military were the only users, lugging around huge backpack computers and helmets.
mjcohenw 14y ago
How will these work if I already wear glasses?
- jonmrodriguez 14y ago
  Great question! Your prescription lenses fit behind the electrochromic lenses. -- The prescription lenses go in an inner groove, whereas the electrochromic ones are mounted flush to the front face. You can get dirt-cheap lenses at http://zennioptical.com http://zennioptical.com , and you or any optometrist can insert them.
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Wingman4l7 14y ago
Just curious -- why did you go with IndieGoGo instead of KickStarter? KickStarter has a much greater visibility on the web than IndieGoGo (based off a comparison using Google Trends[1]). Are you opposed to their funding model or something else about them? Did they reject your project application, and if so, why? [1] http://trends.google.com/websites?q=kickstarter.com%2C+indiegogo.com&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0 http://trends.google.com/websites?q=kickstarter.com%2C+indie...
- ebf 14y ago
  It looks like their KickStarter was shut down for spammy tactics. http://www.quora.com/Vergence-Labs/Why-did-Vergence-Labs-Kickstarter-project-get-canceled http://www.quora.com/Vergence-Labs/Why-did-Vergence-Labs-Kic... http://llsocial.com/2012/06/kickstarter-indiegogo-misuses-continue-wearable-video-recording-projects/ http://llsocial.com/2012/06/kickstarter-indiegogo-misuses-co...
  - Wingman4l7 14y ago
    The Quora discussion you linked to (which includes answers by members of the Vergence Labs company) makes it seem less clear cut, IMO. FWIW, here's the suspended KickStarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-reality-with-computing-enabled-eyewear http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-re...
- jonmrodriguez 14y ago
  After ZionEyez embarrased Kickstarter by raising over $300k but then dropping off the face of the earth (still haven't shipped, over 6 months late, and ignoring their customers' emails), Kickstarter now hates video glasses. Indiegogo is much more friendly to computer eyewear -- we've met their CEO, and they love our product and our stellar team: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263569 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263569
  - Wingman4l7 14y ago
    Well, you'd better ship in a timely fashion, or you'll sour IndieGoGo on video glasses, and they'll be no crowd-funding sites left for that sort of project. No pressure! =)

22 points by jonmrodriguez 14y ago

Streaming MJPEG to an iPad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNXXXZqB9c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPNXXXZqB9c The glasses that ship will of course be more aggressively miniaturized than the prototype seen in that demo video.

graup 14y ago
Do you have images / 3D renderings of the current design? Would be a good thing to add to the indiegogo page. Apart from that... thumbs up, great work!
- jonmrodriguez 14y ago
  3D renderings appear at timestamp 1:55 of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-quJ8nuis&t=1m55s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-quJ8nuis&t=1m55s Thanks! Please support us by ordering a pair! :)
dclowd9901 14y ago
Not to be snarky, but that kind of knowhow requires a bit more proof, especially if you're 1) Up against Google Glasses and 2) Asking for people's money up front. What sort of background do you guys bring to such a steep industrial engineering endeavor?
- jonmrodriguez 14y ago
  Erick's background is 3D graphics, especially procedural geometry. He made the muscle and skin system that is Venom in Spiderman 3 and Sonny in I, Robot, he made the waves in Surf's Up, and much more. Scroll to the bottom of his youtube channel and you can see a lot of his work that's appeared at SIGGRAPH and in film: http://www.youtube.com/user/erickmiller/videos http://www.youtube.com/user/erickmiller/videos He also has a global MBA from UCLA & NUS, and has managed teams of 20+ engineers while still coding hands-on every day. I just finished the CS honors program at Stanford (invented a more realistic 3D display, partially mentored by a founder of Lytro). My background is robotics, EE, AI, and a tad of mech and bio. Some of my work, including a link to the thesis: http://www.quora.com/Academia/What-does-it-feel-like-to-leave-an-academic-position-and-go-for-an-industry-job/answer/Jon-Rodriguez http://www.quora.com/Academia/What-does-it-feel-like-to-leav... Some previous projects include putting self-evolving code in a walking robot to make it constantly learn to walk faster in adaptation to hardware injury, developing a long-range body-tracking sensor system for search and rescue robots, genetically engineering a coliphage virus, creating part of a compiler for DNA, writing an app for our glasses that uses facial identity recognition to get the Facebook profile of the person you are looking at, and assembling a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation brain booster that Erick and I use to be smarter. Our PCB engineer designed the rocket controller for the SpaceX Falcon 9. Our augmented reality expert has built and architected AR systems for 13 years, since before the term "augmented reality" existed, back when military were the only users, lugging around huge backpack computers and helmets.

mjcohenw 14y ago

How will these work if I already wear glasses?

jonmrodriguez 14y ago
Great question! Your prescription lenses fit behind the electrochromic lenses. -- The prescription lenses go in an inner groove, whereas the electrochromic ones are mounted flush to the front face. You can get dirt-cheap lenses at http://zennioptical.com http://zennioptical.com , and you or any optometrist can insert them.

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Wingman4l7 14y ago

Just curious -- why did you go with IndieGoGo instead of KickStarter? KickStarter has a much greater visibility on the web than IndieGoGo (based off a comparison using Google Trends[1]). Are you opposed to their funding model or something else about them? Did they reject your project application, and if so, why? [1] http://trends.google.com/websites?q=kickstarter.com%2C+indiegogo.com&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0 http://trends.google.com/websites?q=kickstarter.com%2C+indie...

ebf 14y ago
It looks like their KickStarter was shut down for spammy tactics. http://www.quora.com/Vergence-Labs/Why-did-Vergence-Labs-Kickstarter-project-get-canceled http://www.quora.com/Vergence-Labs/Why-did-Vergence-Labs-Kic... http://llsocial.com/2012/06/kickstarter-indiegogo-misuses-continue-wearable-video-recording-projects/ http://llsocial.com/2012/06/kickstarter-indiegogo-misuses-co...
- Wingman4l7 14y ago
  The Quora discussion you linked to (which includes answers by members of the Vergence Labs company) makes it seem less clear cut, IMO. FWIW, here's the suspended KickStarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-reality-with-computing-enabled-eyewear http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-re...
jonmrodriguez 14y ago
After ZionEyez embarrased Kickstarter by raising over $300k but then dropping off the face of the earth (still haven't shipped, over 6 months late, and ignoring their customers' emails), Kickstarter now hates video glasses. Indiegogo is much more friendly to computer eyewear -- we've met their CEO, and they love our product and our stellar team: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263569 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263569
- Wingman4l7 14y ago
  Well, you'd better ship in a timely fashion, or you'll sour IndieGoGo on video glasses, and they'll be no crowd-funding sites left for that sort of project. No pressure! =)