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Thoughts on smart glasses?

Stafford

Stafford

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Ok, so it's like this....

I always thought I kept myself up to date on all things tech wise, but I genuinely had no idea about these smart glasses. My co-worker told me about it today and like me he's a big gamer but also loves movies.

He told me he can play Xbox games via the app since the glasses run on Android. He claims the quality is fantastic, however I know him to be someone that can exeggerate a bit about things. He mentioned 8K and what not, but truly how good does gaming look on a very good smart glasses? The ones he bought set him back €1200, not sure about what brand.

Years ago during PS360 era I used a projector, can I expect a experience similar to that? Also, how is contrast, black levels? Anyone here with smart glasses and if so, can you share your experience and impressions?

I mean, obviously it will be via streaming, right? So I can't help but wonder about overall picture quality when using those glasses. I should go check out a store here to see if I can demo some of those.
 
They are the future, I think. Folks will get SUPER addicted to instant content in their eyeballs. Of course I guess it depends on how visible that window showing porn is to others while you are in a meeting, but I'm sure the designers are hard at work making sure YOUR privacy is intact whilst stripping it away from every one else.

On the one hand, if we can do away with garish real world billboards and signage, maybe we can improve our architectural aesthetic. But I think it will just be horrible pop-up ads in your vision.

Of course, what we REALLY need are glasses that strip away the influences and try to get us to live a better life...

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jason10mm said:
They are the future, I think. Folks will get SUPER addicted to instant content in their eyeballs. Of course I guess it depends on how visible that window showing porn is to others while you are in a meeting, but I'm sure the designers are hard at work making sure YOUR privacy is intact whilst stripping it away from every one else.

On the one hand, if we can do away with garish real world billboards and signage, maybe we can improve our architectural aesthetic. But I think it will just be horrible pop-up ads in your vision.

Of course, what we REALLY need are glasses that strip away the influences and try to get us to live a better life...

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It's certainly interesting to see where things are going and especially how fast everything is happening now. Personally if I were to ever get one I would be using it to watch a movie in bed or something. I'd just lie down and watch it, instead of having a laptop or tablet on my lap and getting neck or back problems in the process.

I can't see myself using it much for living room gaming because I have my Sony A95K here, and there is no way in hell those glasses can compete with the quality that TV produces. And I guess some people would use it outside to watch shit but that's not me. When I go outside it's mostly with my dog and all my attention obviously goes to her then.

Still, I'm definitely curious to just try it out.
 
I just want them to do facial recognition and let me know the name of the person I am talking to and how I know them/they know me.
 
Become a useless term really. A wearable display shouldn't be used for smart glasses. Hell people were calling the Meta RayBans that and they don't even have a display just a camera.

The only smart glasses weee google glass that I'm aware of.
 
IntentionalPun said:
Become a useless term really. A wearable display shouldn't be used for smart glasses. Hell people were calling the Meta RayBans that and they don't even have a display just a camera.

The only smart glasses weee google glass that I'm aware of.
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nah, there are multiple new ones now with display directly in the lens
 
Right now? Niche as fuck. Nobody cares.

In the future..likely highly refined, and will eventually reach a consumer friendly price. I think it will be a slow burn, for years.
 
poppabk said:
I just want them to do facial recognition and let me know the name of the person I am talking to and how I know them/they know me.
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This will be a privacy nightmare, so no way this will happen in Europe. Although I just saw Meta Oakleys in Fnac today, I wonder what can you do with them in France, because sure as hell you cannot record others without their permission.
 
100% the next big thing in my mind. When they finally get to the "this is really good" point, I think we'll see a society shift where suddenly everyone is walking around wearing glasses. Samsung/apple and others will all compete to be on your face just like they competed to be in your hand with a phone. Its going to be a crazy big market and change the way the next decade "looks" compared to the last 20 years. Its one of those few times you can see a major shift coming before it gets here.
 
people say they look too big and dorky...but if i'm already wearing glasses, that doesn't mean anything right?
from videos, they're not what I want. Don't seem to have any AR stuff I'm interested like, picking up an item at the grocer and it scans its barcode and tells me stuff about it
 
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I saw a demo a few months ago, but I forget which glasses, maybe Ray-Bans connected to Gemini, where the user was having a tourist walk in a new town, and the HUD in the glasses gave a real-time map, with directions to some cafe or something he was walking to.

That's pretty dope. As is being able to query the glasses what it is you're looking at, or real-time language translation, but anything involving facial recognition and identity databases can fuck right off.
 
I like how the thread is talking mostly about actual smart glasses instead of what OP is talking about which are wearable displays.

To answer Stafford Stafford a lot of people swear by those things and their quality has jumped while their price has gone down, although that may change. You don't need to spend over 1000 euro bucks.
 
I'm interested in wearables for stuff like

  1. Subtitles for speech in real time: so I'll know regardless of whatever language people are speaking if they're talking shit.
  2. Quick and useful information about any object I look at
  3. Augmented UI for walking, biking or driving (especially translation of signs in a foreign country where everything is alien).
  4. My own personal reminder of which bitch I'm talking to right now so I don't have to remember her damn name
Stuff like that.
 
they are definitely going to be the next big thing. why not just beam shit straight into our eyeballs and get us even more addicted?

there is so many good uses. as much as I hate Meta i love how it helps a lot of disabled people. blind people can wear them and the cameras are literally their eyes. also the Meta glasses have the "be my eyes" app so you can basically call someone (with working eyes) to see what your camera is seeing and help you with whatever situation.

personally, i already have to wear glasses all the time and they are big dorky looking things so they won't be much of a change for me. i'd just be upgrading to smart glasses. if i have to wear these fucking things all the time and constantly pay for new frames/lense then it'd be nice if they have more of a use than being able to see.

i'm a big tech nerd so would love smart glasses. let me see my phone notifications, video call someone, get the weather forecasts for the next hour at the side of my eye, big arrows showing me where to go. basically a real life HUD.

i had never really wore a watch in my life until about 4 years ago. hated them and thought they were pointless because they just told me the time. now i couldn't live without my smart watch. it tells the time, weather, counts my steps, heartrate, sleep patterns, breathing, blood oxygen, cardio fitness, etc.

so yeah if glasses could become useful beyond just being able to see i'd buy them for sure. it'd be a much easier buy than my smart watch.

won't be buying anything made by Meta. fuck them. I'm waiting to see what Google and Apple do.
 
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