6 ms·
You could calculate the angle from the camera view as long as at least some piece of the MacBook is in view.
by anal_reactor 1y ago
You could calculate the angle from the camera view as long as at least some piece of the MacBook is in view.
- vaenaes 1y ago[dead]
- antennafirepla 1y agoYou could, for orders of magnitude more compute than reading a magnetic encoder (my assumption at how they estimate it)
- estimator7292 1y agoSure, but not more than what you're already spending on transforming the image. And it's not like these devices are exactly lacking in horsepower.
- 3eb7988a1663 1y agoThis is trivially broken by people who affix some type of cover over the camera. I do this on the off chance some errant application thinks it deserves to take pictures of my environment.
- yonatan8070 1y agoIf someone covers the camera, the feature isn't relevant since it requires the camera to see your desk
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- kazinator 1y agoIsn't the desktop view is produced from the iPhone camera capture, not from from the MacBook's camera?
- empressplay 1y agoIf you have a new Macbook the built-in camera does it
- kazinator 1y agoI'm typing on a 2024 Macbook Pro. Is that sufficiently new? I don't see how it would work, practically. The only camera is the user-facing one. If the screen were tilted down toward the desk, I'd have to kneel down to see it.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoBut compute is cheaper for the manufacturer than adding a sensor (parts & labor, and it adds up over millions). Someone must've done the math.
- lazide 1y agoHo boy, good luck convincing people it wasn't watching them wank!
- sannysanoff 1y agoshameless plug: https://sannysanoff.github.io/whiteboard/ https://sannysanoff.github.io/whiteboard/ not only for mac users.
- ivanjermakov 1y agoRelevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/
- junon 1y agoThis was correct a number of years ago. Feels a little strange we can just do an API call for bird recognition now.
- djhn 1y agoBut is there actually an API for that? Last I checked the big providers Video Intelligence APIs even distinguishing cats and dogs was still unreliable.
- MaxikCZ 1y agoThese days you dont need an api, you can run the stack on tamagochi
- SAI_Peregrinus 1y agoBirdNET from the Cornell lab of ornithology provides that api.
- filoleg 1y agoUnless I am missing something massive, BirdNET[0] is for identifying birds by sound, not by images. Merlin[1] (also from Cornell Lab of Ornithology), on the other hand, has both image and sound ID. I haven't used either, so I cannot compare the quality of results from Merlin vs. BirdNET for sound ID, but afaik only Merlin has image ID. 0. https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ https://birdnet.cornell.edu/ 1. https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
- reaperducer 1y agohttps://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
- 1y ago
- Biganon 1y ago[flagged]
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- inetknght 1y agoThat sounds like an excuse to enable turning on the camera without turning on the light for it just because no user-software is using it. No thanks. Plenty of users put stickers on their cameras. One simple user trick would break your whole workflow.
- gcanyon 1y agoThe Mac camera light is wired inline so as to make this impossible. The only way for the camera to be on and the light not is if the light itself is broken.
- gcanyon 1y agoThe Mac camera light is wired inline. If the camera is on, so is the light. Since we're not seeing the camera light flashing on periodically, this isn't how it's being done.
- danhau 1y agoThe Macbook tally light isn‘t necessarily wired to the camera. It very well could be independently software controlled. At least it was not too long ago. IIRC there was an article about this, posted here on HN. Macs used to have (still have?) a feature where you could declare it as lost/stolen and remotely take a photo with the camera. I believe the light didn‘t glow for that.