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Monday, September 27, 2021
Facebook's First Glasses Pave The Way For Public AR
uploadvr.com: Ray-Ban Stories are $299 sunglasses powered by Facebook’s technology that can capture the wearer’s perspective up to 30 seconds at a time. They also take calls and stream music from your phone.
While I do think that these film-recording sunglasses are rather cool, I don’t see how they are all that different from previous similar products, like Snapchat’s Spectacles, or how much of an advancement in technology they are. While they claim to be an important step to Augmented Reality, I just fail to see how. I could understand using the camera feed to be able to map AR objects into the user’s line of sight more accurately, there is evidently no new advancements into the actual augmented reality aspect of the glasses. Maybe, like the author, I would grow to like or enjoy having the camera glasses, but I still have a smartphone with a camera that has excellent resolution and can take high quality photos and videos with almost as little effort as it takes to start a capture on the glasses. Maybe I am missing some great benefit of the hands-free aspect of the glasses, but I simply do not think these glasses would be worth it. On a technical side of things, the glasses are actually quite impressive considering they contain all the circuiting and hardware necessarily for high quality, wireless video transmission while hardly affecting the overall size of the glasses. That being said, just because the technology is impressive, doesn’t mean I see the need for such a pair of glasses, but perhaps that is just me.
I think the appeal of smart glasses has nothing to do with an easy way to take photos; smartphones are able to do this just fine. The appeal of smart glasses like this the ones developed by Snapchat and Google is the ability to somehow capture EXACTLY what someone sees for a moment. I think our technology is still a bit far behind for this. Augmented reality was also an interesting concept that people were very excited about when Google first developed the Google lens, but the technology just does not stack up yet. The motion tracking is not advanced enough to be convincing, which is the whole appeal. Not to mention the fact that there is absolutely no way I would trust Facebook with the ability to see exactly what I am doing at all times. They already get close enough to having that much data through their app and we have seen how irresponsible they are with it.
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While I do think that these film-recording sunglasses are rather cool, I don’t see how they are all that different from previous similar products, like Snapchat’s Spectacles, or how much of an advancement in technology they are. While they claim to be an important step to Augmented Reality, I just fail to see how. I could understand using the camera feed to be able to map AR objects into the user’s line of sight more accurately, there is evidently no new advancements into the actual augmented reality aspect of the glasses. Maybe, like the author, I would grow to like or enjoy having the camera glasses, but I still have a smartphone with a camera that has excellent resolution and can take high quality photos and videos with almost as little effort as it takes to start a capture on the glasses. Maybe I am missing some great benefit of the hands-free aspect of the glasses, but I simply do not think these glasses would be worth it. On a technical side of things, the glasses are actually quite impressive considering they contain all the circuiting and hardware necessarily for high quality, wireless video transmission while hardly affecting the overall size of the glasses. That being said, just because the technology is impressive, doesn’t mean I see the need for such a pair of glasses, but perhaps that is just me.
I think the appeal of smart glasses has nothing to do with an easy way to take photos; smartphones are able to do this just fine. The appeal of smart glasses like this the ones developed by Snapchat and Google is the ability to somehow capture EXACTLY what someone sees for a moment. I think our technology is still a bit far behind for this. Augmented reality was also an interesting concept that people were very excited about when Google first developed the Google lens, but the technology just does not stack up yet. The motion tracking is not advanced enough to be convincing, which is the whole appeal. Not to mention the fact that there is absolutely no way I would trust Facebook with the ability to see exactly what I am doing at all times. They already get close enough to having that much data through their app and we have seen how irresponsible they are with it.
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