Re:Focals by North
by baud147258 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @11:28AM
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Sometime at parties I wish for a HUD that would show me people's name and the last time I saw them. On the other hand I dislike wearing glasses at social events, since I don't really need them.
I really don't look forward to trying to politely explain why I don't like having my face uploaded into the facial recognition/person-tracking system that will involve.
Re:Focals by North
by pavel_lishin on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:09PM
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I do look forward to our cyberpunk future where to "opt out" of certain systems, you have to paint a certain mark on your face, or put a little QRCode sticker on your cheek.
"Sorry, I'm only opted into Google Facemind and FacebookFace; I don't want to be indexed by Amazon Visage."
Re:Focals by North
by erik_seaberg on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:19PM
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People have begun studying makeup and hair styles that foil today's face recognition in general: https://cvdazzle.com/
Or wear a government issue spook "ugly t-shirt".
Could be local only. New faces are saved as they're detected. Then later on your computer, add notes to the new faces ("John Smith, met 11/7/19 at Liz's party, programmer at Initech").
When those faces are re-detected, show the info text.
Would certainly be nice if you could do a similar thing without needing a camera on the glasses at all though. How can we recognize a person reliably without seeing them? Maybe by their voice?
Re:Focals by North
by baud147258 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:26AM
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I agree. Of course such system have some pretty important downsides. I'll perhaps have to pay more attention to people then.
Parties in Virtual Worlds are great in this regard, since you can see not only someone's name but also their IM address, profile and sometimes notes you've made about them in the past. So I know I'd appreciate it in RL.
That would be great for people with face blindness.
Yeah, still shot in a way that minimizes the size of the boxes that hold the tech.
Is that huge switch how it detects it is on your face? seems hugely inconvenient.
That may house the projector that throws the display onto the glass.
found this image on their "about us" page that shows a bunch of what looks like employees wearing focals: https://assets.bynorth.com/quartz/aboutPage/Company_Banner_P...
still look like professional photography, but at least shows a few more angles and on a wider range of faces.
I would believe that some people would like a little heads-up display in their glasses. Not everyone. But some people. But I also would believe that the glasses would need to look almost identical to normal glasses for such a thing to take off. People don't want weird bulky shit strapped to their faces. Dark and moody photos that hide the actual size of the things won't be enough.