Meta To Add Display To Ray-Bans as Zuckerberg Bets Computing Shift (ft.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/23/173229/meta-to-add-display-to-ray-bans-as-zuckerberg-bets-computing-shift
- Source link: https://www.ft.com/content/77bd9117-0a2d-4bd7-9248-4dd288f695a4
> The $1.5tn social media group is planning to add a screen inside the $300 sunglasses it makes and sells in partnership with eyewear group EssilorLuxottica, according to people familiar with the plans. The updated Ray-Bans could be released as early as the second half of 2025, the people said. The small display would be likely to be used to show notifications or responses from Meta's virtual assistant.
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> The move comes as Meta pushes further into wearable devices and what chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hopes will be the next computing platform, as rivals such as Apple, Google and Snap also race to develop their own similar products.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/77bd9117-0a2d-4bd7-9248-4dd288f695a4
Looking forward to this (Score:1)
Provided it can be hacked to run without meta tracking me.
What I've been waiting for (Score:2)
Usually I pay the geek tax on new tech. My old self would have had 3 pairs of the non-HUD versions by now like I do with Cell phones. But these glasses, I've been waiting for the display and finally I'll be in the market.
What is the motivation? (Score:2)
I can't see how this would be really beneficial to anyone, but I can see a million reasons why it would be detrimental to humanity. If only the people pursuing this could stop up for a brief moment and ask themselves "why?" I realize I might come across as a gumpy old guy, but seriously, smartphone addiction has already become such a burden for society. If you now have it integrated into your glasses as well, your main accomplishment would be to cement, even more, an antisocial horde of mindless workers do
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Having a HUD in your glasses could be a very useful thing, if not abused or enshittified. But because it's Meta, we know it's going to be abused and enshittified at launch.
Example: Google Maps directions when walking somewhere in a city, with distance and next turn in the corner of your vision so you don't have to be walking around with your phone in your hand, prone to dropping it, or having someone snatch it and run.
Now if it obscures your vision with advertisements and junk notifications, it will be a w
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That is exactly why meta wants to make these glasses. You cannot look away from ads. IMHO, this a solution looking for a problem and I would never want a pair of these specially because they are from zuck. Remember he stole facebook. He has no idea how to innovate as shown by his VR glasses flushing money down the drain, etc.
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It really ruins the market for writing down directions and address on a piece of paper.
Who needs to hold a phone the hole time. Look at it once, and start walking, Maybe in a couple blocks, look at it again. Ok, maybe in Japan where house numbering is bizarre, or in Italian medieval areas, then you look at it more often.
On sunglasses? The focal distance seems like it's a loss for anyone who'e not 20/20 and 20 years old.
Mark Zuckerberg thinks it's cool (Score:2)
And he's so rich nobody's going to tell him otherwise.
It doesn't really matter if it's useful or not there's two major problems with it. First of all a large percentage of the populations eyes don't really work with things like this. It's the same reason you don't see 3D TVs anymore. You can't have a mass market product that a quarter of the population or more can't use.
The second problem is The classic gargoyle problem. Wearable computers sounds cool but it's basically impossible to have them and n
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> ``You can't have a mass market product that a quarter of the population or more can't use.''
Does Zuck know anybody who needs to wear corrective lenses? His obsession with products like this seems to indicate ``no". Or has he lined up frame manufacturers to use his ``smart frames''. (Jeebus they're expensive enough now with Zuck having anything to do with them.)
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Sounds like something someone who uses the free version of Second Life would say instead of us distinguished gentlemen using the $70 billion beta version that Zuck made.
Quest 3 VR headset technology (Score:3)
New technology often has unexpected uses.
I've had an opportunity to play around with a Quest 3S recently by strapping it to a robot and transmitting it's spatial position to the robot for localization purposes. This was surprisingly simple (someone posted an example elsewhere, and I just followed their instructions). The localization data is pretty solid.
What's amazing is that for $300 this thing is doing visual-inertial odometry (i.e. continuously tracking and mapping its position in space based on both visual cues for absolute positioning, and inertial data for fast response times) and it's doing it in a busy environment with people walking around, and with some of the cameras obscured, etc.. The update rate is surprisingly good at around 100 Hz (and it needs to be good to prevent you from getting nausea).
There's nothing on the market for mobile indoor robotics that compares to this technology, and if there was it would be tens of thousands of dollars. I realize the VR headsets are sold at a loss to encourage you to buy games, but even so, this technology will be a game-changer for indoor robot odometry & localization.
I'm not a huge fan of VR, but for robotics, the technology Meta is developing is amazing.
It'll just be a fad for a season (Score:3)
Look, you can go with the sonic sunglasses, but we all know you'll be back to screwdriver before you know it.
I think the last lenovo spam I recieved (Score:2)
Had these on sale for $200. Well, not ray-bans, but the same idea.
Meta: directly competing with lenovo's clearance stock
do they work with perscription lenses? (Score:2)
otherwise I can't see crapbooks adverts anyway!
New Zuckerberg Biz to Lose Mere Billions per Year (Score:2)
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