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Meta's Smart Glasses Gain Live AI and Live Translation
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are you kidding right now? this thing will literally see, hear, and know everything you are doing at all times while you are wearing them, and beams it all back to the mothership. You’re OKAY with that? Not only am I not down with that as a wearer, I have zero interest in being on the receiving end either. HARD PASS.
lol how do glasses that don’t even have screens have better features in the Vision Pro, which is an amazing device🙄
The monitoring is a two-way street. It could deter crime some. A perp would know they are being logged. Not to say this would stop them. I might want my kid to have them.
I'm all for cameras everywhere, but that's just me. It really rubs a lot of people the wrong way. So contentious.
I'm all for cameras everywhere, but that's just me. It really rubs a lot of people the wrong way. So contentious.
Yeah they are. But when you pay for a product and you still end up being the product or bombarded with adverts then that is plain wrong. However people are still stupid enough to put their whole lives online. The human race has become sad and narcissistic.
Do security cameras on homes stop people from committing crimes? One seen plenty of porch pirate videos that would differ. Is someone wants something bad enough. Chances are they are going to take it. And too be clear I have security cameras on my house and front door. They seem a more after the fact than stopping anything.
Point here is you've seen plenty of criminals being monitored. The more cameras, the more likely they will be prevented from robbing your porch. Criminals can be pretty stupid, and cameras just make them more stupid. It's just an extension of an alarm. Simple house alarms have prevented stuff getting stolen at houses I've lived in. They see the signs, and proceed regardless, until they hear the alarm which deters them effectively. They are cowards.
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Also known as the most annoying suggestions. So Zuck wants all of us to have a thing that lives in our face that is constantly saying “If I might make a suggestion…”
No! You may not make a suggestion. Not unprompted. Whether you are human or AI, keep your unprompted suggestions to yourself.
(Sorry. I just got done with a conversation where someone was doing exactly that basically the entire time, lol.)
Maybe there will be an option to limit what types of unprompted suggestions it can make, so you can restrict it to life-threatening situations. "I suggest you don't eat that mushroom because it's a Death Cap, which is likely to kill you. And cooking it won't help."
Sure, but they can be uncomfortable to wear unless your head and face happen to be built so that they're not, or unless you can find a different head strap that's better than the one that comes with them, and which works for you. I have a Quest 3 (I couldn't wait for the price on the AVP to come down), with just its default head strap, and after about a half-hour of wearing mine, the pressure of the light shield/face gasket against my face becomes uncomfortable, requiring me to often shift it around, pull it off my face for a minute, etc. Maybe I haven't adjusted the strap properly, but a pair of eyeglasses is a lot less likely to hurt so much of the face. Maybe just the bridge of the nose.
IMHO the future is the Vision Pro’s capabilities in this form factor: visual information conveyance is much more efficient, and arguably a “richer” more enjoyable experience, than audio alone. Imagine the oft-invoked use case of an AR device doing facial recognition for you at a conference and cuing you with the name, how you know them, etc. of each person you chat with—would this work more smoothly if you had to listen to a person’s name and occupation being read aloud during your conversation, or if you saw this information as text overlaid in a corner of your vision so your aural attention can remain undivided? That said, I’m also surprised that Tim and co. chose to tackle the display part first when the other half of the technology is currently much more attainable… and less dorky-looking.
"Ray-Bans, what am I looking at?"
"It's a bush."
"Umm, OK, but what kind of bush?"
"It's a healthy-looking bush."
"To be specific, what species??"
"Probably Toxicodendron radicans, otherwise known as poison ivy, and since you're standing in the middle of it, would you like me to look up some treatments for your upcoming rash? By the way, don't eat it. Does that count against my limit of unprompted suggestions?"
"It's a bush."
"Umm, OK, but what kind of bush?"
"It's a healthy-looking bush."
"To be specific, what species??"
"Probably Toxicodendron radicans, otherwise known as poison ivy, and since you're standing in the middle of it, would you like me to look up some treatments for your upcoming rash? By the way, don't eat it. Does that count against my limit of unprompted suggestions?"
Compared to Apple’s Vision Pro these look approachable and downright “human” in scale and scope.
Different as the products’ functionality may be today, I’d argue they ultimately serve the same market and will, eventually, competing against each other. I don’t see consumers owning both a VR headset and smart glasses at the same time and switching between the two on a daily basis.
They did release something already - though it seems it has failed in mass market appeal.
Different as the products’ functionality may be today, I’d argue they ultimately serve the same market and will, eventually, competing against each other. I don’t see consumers owning both a VR headset and smart glasses at the same time and switching between the two on a daily basis.
Good to know about this. But not happy with the privacy policy of Meta. Looking forward to seeing Apple's take on AR glasses. Hopefully it will come out within the next 5 years.