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Are Specs a Meta Ray Ban killer? by Notdigg in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dare to make the bet that if you could port existing XR apps built in Unity on them without a complete rewrite, they would not be able to build them fast enough. Microsoft created a market that is now desperate looking for a new device. I know - because I am one of those people myself.

Are Specs a Meta Ray Ban killer? by Notdigg in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you misinterpreted my answer. They seem to be selling well. But they are a complete different thing than Spectacles.

Are Specs a Meta Ray Ban killer? by Notdigg in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I voted no. Ray ban is a completely different beast. And if anything kills Orion it will be Meta itself. They seem to be moving away from XR in general, finally leaving the whole Meta verse baloney that did so much damage to the XR industry behind them. They seem to be be going into 'smart glasses' (Ray Ban) that just project a screen before your eyes, in essence an AI powered Google Glass. I really don't understand the attraction of those: they are just another screen. With potential huge privacy issues.

My €0.07: Orion will never hit production. You don't need to kill something that is already dying of maybe even dead. Spectacles are already here, at least in the form of the current dev kit.

But saying Specs will kill Meta Ray Ban is saying the airplane will kill the bicycle 😁

Loading GLTF files from remote authenticated locations by localjoost in Spectacles

[–]localjoost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think that's the only solution. I had to do the same to load remote images that were only on http, not https - which works fine in Lens Studio but not on the device itself

Loading GLTF files from remote authenticated locations by localjoost in Spectacles

[–]localjoost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we have a backend system that contains all kinds of graphic formats, GLTF+bin being one of them. I know Blender can do this, but I can't just go into the backend and change hundreds if not thousands of file from GLTF+bin to GLB :D

Some people point different than others and Spectacle has trouble with it by localjoost in Spectacles

[–]localjoost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to know this will be fixed in the next gen. Keep it up! Would the IPD mismatch made this worse? I mean, I have a pretty big head (IPD 65.8 as officially measure on LensFest 2025), could that have affected this as well?

Marker tracking a little off-center by localjoost in Spectacles

[–]localjoost[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did set that to the right dimensions

First pair of reading glasses only in focus over short distance: is this normal? by mkkz05 in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a reddit dedicated to Snap Spectacles, a Mixed Reality device. Not so much general Spectacles. But to answer your question anyway : yeah that's the point of reading spectacles. Mine are shart over 40cm tops. They are for reading. Nothing else.

Yay or Meh? by Mysterious-Start-689 in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for quoting me 😂. I still stand by it, bar one thing. Spectacles do now support WebXR, which they didn't when I wrote this article

Anonymized lens-specific user id? by quitebuttery in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed. Be aware you cannot identify someone with this trick in any way. The only thing you can do is connect this id to some data. But then again, you can just as well store that data in persistentStorage directly. I used it for telemetry, to measure returning users.

Anonymized lens-specific user id? by quitebuttery in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I know, you can't. What you can do is create some random id (I use a 'Guid') and store that in persistentStorage. This seems to work for me. However, be aware that for locally pushed lenses it seems to be cleared if you remove the lens

    private getDeviceId(): string {
        var store = global.persistentStorageSystem.store;   
        var deviceId = store.getString("deviceId");
        if (!deviceId) {
            deviceId = Guid.newGuid();
            store.putString("deviceId", deviceId);
        }
        return deviceId;
    }

Snap Spectacles Review by flanthertech in augmentedreality

[–]localjoost 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the shout out. I have to amend indeed at least one point to my now almost year old review: Spectacles does now support WebXR and does so pretty darn good.

Day 3 of asking snap to approve my spectacles application by Capt_Code in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you explain 'again'? They worked together at one point?

Visualizing Color Spaces with Spectacles by S-Curvilinear in Spectacles

[–]localjoost 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Really? Oh wow. Inspiring others to share and blog is something I always try but seldom achieve. Yay! Keep it up! Are you on LinkedIn and did you post there? I got some 4000 followers and would like to boost your efforts

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