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Schlagwort: AI Glasses

  • E135 – The Headset-Prizes-Game, Bitkom AI Glasses Poll and how to develop for Snap Specs with Ines Hilz & Andrew Douglas (SunfloVR)
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    Thomas Riedel
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    Thomas Bedenk
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    Ines Hilz
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    Andrew Douglas

    INTERVIEW

    What do you do when you meet somebody at a hackathon you work really well with? You found a new company! That is exactly what Ines Hilz and Andrew Douglas did after teaming up at a Meta Hackathon in London, going on to launch Sunflower VR and develop their new AI-driven AR try-on mirror, Aeva Display. In the interview, they delve into developing within Snap’s ecosystem, highlighting how Lens Studio’s AI-assisted toolset, agentic workflows, and environmental tracking features empower creators. Finally, they share crucial advice for hackathon participants developing for Snap Spectacles, emphasizing the necessity of testing frequently on-device to properly calibrate typography, color palettes, and transparency for additive holographic displays.

    Tipp: How to utilize the Snap Spectacles to simulate AI Glasses to controll your local Ai Agents from anywhere just using the glasses.

    Join the challenge now!

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    GenAI transparency notification: For this episode the audio of the three guests has been optimized using the speach improvement tool of Adobe Podcst. No edits have been made with GenAI and no additional content was generated. All edits are made by hand with Adobe Audition.

  • E132 – Meta goes Store Brand: Introducing Meta Glasses
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    Thomas Riedel
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    Thomas Bedenk

    The strategy to go with an already well-established brand has been contested by its own creator: Meta introduced Meta Ray-Ban glasses three years ago and created a blueprint which was supposed to explain why suddenly a lot of normal, non-XR people were buying AI glasses.

    Now, Meta has announced Meta Glasses; their own „store brand,“ cheaper but supposedly as good as the branded version, which challenges that blueprint. Thomas Bedenk and I, as well as many of you out there, have been asking why Meta is doing that. Sure, cheaper might always be better for wider adoption. Removing a designer glasses brand can make a product cheaper. But will it also remove the appeal? Will people wear glasses with a Meta logo on them? Was Meta forced to go cheaper because the trajectory already showed signs of slowing down? And what role does EssilorLuxottica play in this?

    The long-time partner, which is 3% owned by Meta and has a 10-year deal signed up to 2034, is not only profiting hugely from that cooperation. It is also in a situation where it could put pressure on its partner. The Italian-French corporation EssilorLuxottica might even be concerned about its own brand integrity regarding what Meta is doing concerning privacy and AI. Maybe EssilorLuxottica halted further brand cooperation without retracting access to its production facilities, we speculate.

    In this episode, we are analyzing Meta’s newest attempt in the smart glasses industry it created, and we share a clear position on whether you should buy these now-cheapest, but still great-looking, smart glasses.

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