This looks even scarier than that TV/camera device by Facebook.
It’s powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and uses a camera, depth, and motion sensors to track and record its surroundings. It has a built-in speaker, which Humane calls a “personic speaker,” and can connect to Bluetooth headphones.
Hell no. If a friend starts wearing a subscription-based body cam connected to “AI”, I’m going to cut them out of my life.
It also sounds so stupid as a concept. Why would I use this instead of a phone camera? The laser display sounds like a much worse equivalent to a tiny smartwatch screen. The only use case might be when doing sports/activities, but we’d need a much more robust device for that (and much faster response times for it to be useful)
The Pin isn’t always recording or even listening for a wake word, instead requiring you to manually activate it in some way. It has a “Trust Light,” which blinks on whenever the Pin is recording.
Might not make a difference for people as long as it’s pointing at them and could be recording, but you made it sound like it always is. I also don’t find it desirable in any way, especially with that subscription price tag.
I do get the idea of having a different device form factor for an AI device, but I don’t think we’re there yet for what AI can do. Still interesting through.
And what Facebook TV/camera device are you talking about? The Quest 3? Or Ray ban glasses?
So, it’s like the badge from Star Trek you can tap to activate in order to talk to your shipmates or the computer. Except without the…y’know…ability to access a teleporter or do anything remotely interesting or meaningful.
Yea that’s fair, it doesn’t live stream everything back to its home base. I meant it more for the second bit you mentioned :)
Also for the Facebook TV, I think I mixed up the Facebook Portal (which you connect to your TV) with this “Free” TV that tracks you and shows you ads constantly:
This looks even scarier than that TV/camera device by Facebook.
Hell no. If a friend starts wearing a subscription-based body cam connected to “AI”, I’m going to cut them out of my life.
It also sounds so stupid as a concept. Why would I use this instead of a phone camera? The laser display sounds like a much worse equivalent to a tiny smartwatch screen. The only use case might be when doing sports/activities, but we’d need a much more robust device for that (and much faster response times for it to be useful)
Just to clarify:
Might not make a difference for people as long as it’s pointing at them and could be recording, but you made it sound like it always is. I also don’t find it desirable in any way, especially with that subscription price tag.
I do get the idea of having a different device form factor for an AI device, but I don’t think we’re there yet for what AI can do. Still interesting through.
And what Facebook TV/camera device are you talking about? The Quest 3? Or Ray ban glasses?
So, it’s like the badge from Star Trek you can tap to activate in order to talk to your shipmates or the computer. Except without the…y’know…ability to access a teleporter or do anything remotely interesting or meaningful.
K.
Yea that’s fair, it doesn’t live stream everything back to its home base. I meant it more for the second bit you mentioned :)
Also for the Facebook TV, I think I mixed up the Facebook Portal (which you connect to your TV) with this “Free” TV that tracks you and shows you ads constantly:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/double-screen-free-tv-will-show-you-ads-even-when-not-in-use/
Both are bad, but the second one looks worse
It’d be a lot easier to covertly record someone with a phone - those don’t have a flashing status light.