• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Smartwatches don’t have cameras for the most part, smartglasses don’t need them either. Also a camera isn’t required for audio translation.

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      9 hours ago

      I meant text translation obviously. You don’t need glasses for audio.

      And yeah, smartwatches don’t have cameras. They aren’t doing anything that needs them. AR, by definition, requires it to know about its environment. It needs a camera at minimum. You could have just smart glasses that can display texts or something, but AR needs cameras.

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          1 hour ago

          What kind of information would my HUD show me, though? Like, idk, my heart rate? I don’t want my life to look like some first person shooter.

          Where I would get something out of it, would be e.g. when I am repairing stuff to show me where’s what (even while thinking about it, I am not sure 😅). Or when I am looking at something in a store to automatically pull up reviews or comparisons. Or showing a manual and highlighting the right screws when building furniture or such.

          Welp, not gonna shell out more than low digit hundred Euros for something like that, but all use cases which seem remotely cool…require a camera.