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Can you say anything about potential applications? What do you think will be the killer app for this?

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This page has several videos of potential applications: https://www.spectacles.com/creators

Deep links:

Fitness: https://youtu.be/trd2LT8-G3Y

Travel: https://youtu.be/bzTfMoyBdlM

Learning dance moves: https://storage.googleapis.com/spectacles-v3/NzVlNzU3OWQtY2U...

3D paint: https://storage.googleapis.com/spectacles-v3/NzVlNzU3OWQtY2U...

Interesting how all these example videos are outside, but I can't see that really happening: outside are other people to bump into, surfaces to pay attention to, hazards.

I don't want to learn to dance while standing distracted next to the edge of a cliff.

Good that you can still see the edge of a cliff then, no?

Ideal.

I have hearing aids and know how bad they can be in noisy environments. I wish there were glasses that captioned what it heard to assist in comprehension. Might be useful for those whose hearing loss progressed a lot. The only caution is one must not rely on them too much or your listening skills will degrade.

Catching pokemon with those should be fun.

Conversation helper. Imagine you talk to a person. It can give you a list of ice breakers to open up the conversation based on the person's appearance and surroundings.

It can alert you whether the person is not comfortable or very attracted to you. Some people like to miss these subtle cues.

You can combine this AR technology with Deep Learning technology such as Pose Tracker.

https://blog.tensorflow.org/2021/05/next-generation-pose-det...

Although I can only speak for myself and not for Snap, I would discourage these ideas. I think these ideas are a violation of the privacy rights of the person you are looking at. If I were on the Lens review team I would reject these lenses.

being able to position X11 (or wayland, I don't care really) windows in space and not have to deal with monitors would sell them for me.

You can do this on some of the VR and AR headsets already. The resolution is just almost but not quite good enough. Its getting there though.

What would be any app for this? It's not immediately apparent why anyone would want this.

Turn by turn navigation that shows you the path to follow in AR that's overlaid on the real road. No more missing your exit, no more not being exactly sure which turn it wants you to take, etc.

Would that appease you?

sounds dangerous to wear AR glasses while driving

lol only on hacker news would this statement be controversial

would be coool while walking. alot of cars already have HUDs like that overlayed onto the windshield

Do you understand why anyone would use existing Snapchat filters? If not, then of course you wouldn’t understand the Spectacles.

Sounds like a lack of imagination.

Construction - Show size/length of objects, show if object is level, highlight location of needed tool.

Navigation - Show arrow on top of uber/lyft, show directions. Show restaurant cleanliness score and rating.

Food safety - Show how long food has been out of fridge

Social - remind you of a persons name

It would make a cool ikea app to guide you to the right part and highlight where it goes

or spot a lost object in your home.

> Social - remind you of a persons name

There was an MIT startup years ago, based on the observation that for some (impaired?) population, when glasses flashed a name, if it was correct, name recall improved, but if it was wrong, there was no negative impact. So low-accuracy recognition was ok.

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