Humane's Wearable AI Projector in Action 21
Humane, the top-secret tech startup founded by ex-Apple vets Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, just showed off the first demo for its projector-based wearable at a TED talk. From a report: Axios' Ina Fried broke the news, and Inverse has seen a recording of the full TED talk given by Chaudhri. Journalist Zarif Ali, who had tweeted out an image of Humane's wearable projecting a phone call function onto Chaudhri's palm, says the full TED talk video is not slated to become available until April 22. I've clipped out a demo of the AI-powered wearable in action.
Always projecting? (Score:3)
In the summary's link, it shows a notification that "Bethany is calling". Does it project that information all the time or only when it sees your hand held in front of you? Is that information visibly displayed on anything that is in front of you? If so, it might cause problems if everyone knows who is calling you every time you receive a call. "Swedish Hospital ED clinic is calling"
Also, just like with the early AR glasses, some people will not be comfortable if you walk around them with a visible camera device clipped to your clothes. I can think of many places where it would be inappropriate to have a visible camera. i.e. toilets, bars, hotel lobbies, cannabis shops, hospitals, schools
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Looks like it might have a proximity sensor, but honestly the whole thing seems lame. From the description my mind jumped to a portable hologram like if you could have a 3d character held in your palm like a scifi assistant, projecting text or an image from a lapel-mounted projector is just miniaturization and it doesn't even do anything fancy like tracking his palm to keep the image steady.
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some people will not be comfortable if you walk around them with a visible camera device clipped to your clothes
I think the problem is that people are idiots. A wearable camera? HOW HORRIBLE he declared while holding a device with 5 cameras embedded in it, surrounded by people who each have a camera, some in their hands right now. How do we know this happened? Well his exclamation of disgust was recorded by municipal CCTV as well as security cameras of multiple shops in which he was currently in view.
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> HOW HORRIBLE he declared while holding a device with 5 cameras embedded in it, surrounded by people who each have a camera, some in their hands right now.
..None of which were recording as they were obviously not being pointed at him or were in pockets, to which he would have taken umbrage if this was not the case. If they were being pointed he could have moderated his behaviour or left. That's the difference. A discreet camera is far more covert than a fondleslab pointed at your face, which is why gl
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None of which were recording as they were obviously not being pointed at him or were in pockets
Except they were pointed at him. You probably didn't even notice. The number of people who point their phones in all sorts of directions while everyone around them is completely oblivious is incredible. That's before you talk about people facetiming while walking literally holding their phones at face height with the back cameras pointed at whomever happens to be behind them.
Most all private CCTV operators know that if they released vision to anyone other than LEO they are walking a fine line between security of their premises and breach of privacy
And? Is there a magical carveout for CCTV footage that separates it from mobile phone footage for the purposes of privacy? But your co
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What if I'm wearing my coat when the phone rings? Do I have to take it off to answer the call?
Put it on your wrist? (Score:5, Interesting)
Projection UI is not new (Score:2)
Given the main idea here seems to be the projecting UI (which presumably allows you to interact with things on the palm of your hand), which in turn implies many possible device functions (timers, call notifications, weather, directions, etc. etc.) as well as things like language translation and voice commands - this just seems to be another attempt at making some tech, enshrouding it with "just suppose" vapours, and selling it to Samsung or somebody.
The palm projecting idea is also not new. Somebody blogge
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Forgot the links:
https://www.researchgate.net/p... [researchgate.net]
https://www.slashgear.com/sams... [slashgear.com]
Scam (Score:3)
This thing is a scam, there's no way you can project anything useful from something small enough to fit on your wrist. The idea isn't new, but the physics make this impossible with current technology... yes, even lasers.
Re:Scam (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't you see the summary? It's "AI-powered"! That means it's magical technology that can easily defy the laws of physics.
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The device is not on his wrist, it is in his shirt pocket.
It's pretty scammy nevertheless.
TED talk or sales pitch? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Ooh, chas.williams, TED talks are sales pitches.
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Exactly :)
No block chain? (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure this was just a regular micro projector before the ChatGPT crazyiness caused everyone to go nuts on adding 'AI' to everything.
I still remember how the Long Island ice tea company added blockchain to their company name and got a big boost to their stock price back when crypto was in it's infancy.
This is apparently the ingenious 'efficient allocation of scarce capital' that requires our economy to suck all the big brains into its massive financial services industry.
Cellphone... (Score:2)
...for people too lazy to take it out their breast-pocket.
Meta (Score:1)
Sounds almost as good as the Metaverse in real world usefulness.