Meta (YC S13), The Crazy AR Glasses That Aim To Do What Google Glass Can’t

Did anyone see actual demos of this thing in action? Meron came to my computer vision class this spring at CU and didn&#x27;t have anything to show other than the CGI demo that has been up for over a year. The newer videos are also mostly just renderings and the only working examples that were posted are around 10 seconds long.<p>I wish them the best of luck but it seems to me like they&#x27;re really overselling themselves.

Look like a great idea and technological advancement, but the biggest thing holding back Google Glass is not that it lacks feature X.<p>Glass will be held back because most people don&#x27;t want to look like geeks. Meta&#x27;s next design looks like it&#x27;s from an 80&#x27;s Sci-Fi movie. I&#x27;m not trying to be an asshole, but there is no way I could take someone seriously wearing those things.

Also this article: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57596204-76/metas-meron-gribetz-and-the-rise-of-the-natural-machine/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.cnet.com&#x2F;8301-11386_3-57596204-76&#x2F;metas-meron-gr...</a><p>Gribetz and his band of less than 25 employees are ensconced in the Los Altos mansion, filled with mattresses, cables, and aluminum bins of takeout food ... &quot;We are hacking 24-7,&quot; Gribetz said, &quot;and making less than McDonald&#x27;s wages.&quot;

Awesome awesome awesome. I&#x27;m super psyched about this stuff. I&#x27;m going to pre-order a pair.<p>Anyone (from Meta maybe?) have any details on the SDK? I see &quot;write code in Unity3D on a Windows PC&quot; from their Kickstarter, but curious if that&#x27;s the latest word...

&gt; Tracking blank white objects — be it a piece of paper, or a big blank wall — is one of the hardest computer vision challenges around.<p>Most of what I know about computer vision comes from deep learning approaches, but tracking a white object doesn&#x27;t seem like it should be too difficult. Is tracking a large white object actually &quot;one of the hardest computer vision challenges&quot;, or is this just a garbage quote?

Their stylized logo looks like it says &quot;METH&quot;.

some other interesting videos about Meta that get more into the details:<p><a href="http://www.meta-view.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meta-view.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7nSng0yD8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Cv7nSng0yD8</a>

Brilliant and ballsy. It&#x27;s refreshing to hear a startup go after long epic visions and to be able to gather so many people to work on it already.<p>Looking forward to seeing their future

Are they already out?<p>Some of the people here saying Meta Glasses look geeky are missing the point. They can be used at work in a myriad different ways<p>* previewing 3d printings can be one of them, with Tony Stark-type visualizations more generally<p>* collaborative games in offices around the world after work, where you can do things like fire projectiles or see the same objects or stats only if you have the glasses on<p>* metainformation overlaid for visitors to museums etc.

This is really exciting, that someone has turnt this into reality (I was just daydreaming about it).<p>The top somewhat reminds me of the kinect, or are you guys using bifocal vision? If you are using the latter, does it work outside?<p>I think I&#x27;m way to excited about this, and having to wait for a teardown to find out what tech powers this beast is making me giddy like a 5 year old in a candy store.

The lazer tag could be incredibly awesome, since you can actually see all the lazers coming at you, and with none of the range and safety issues that come with paintball. You could conceivably play it as a team event in your own office using just the glasses, or scale up to full real-time war simulation with the right cameras and software.

The concept video looks <i>awesome</i>. A few weeks ago I went hiking and thought to myself &quot;wouldn&#x27;t it be great if Google Glass had an app that showed me information about the flora and fauna I&#x27;m seeing? Oh wait, it can&#x27;t yet.&quot; It looks like Meta might be able to.<p>When looking at new technologies there are always two questions: is it worth doing and can it be done. The answer to the former is obvious here. I don&#x27;t know nearly enough about the state of hardware to make a call about the latter, but kudos to the team for unabashedly attacking such a huge problem and trying to make the future happen faster.

I&#x27;ve been hoping for a long time that Mann&#x27;s EyeTap stuff could be more widely available, so here&#x27;s hoping they deliver something amazing (and maybe affordable too, in my dreams)

There quite a contrast between HN&#x27;s reaction now and 3 months ago<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5726572" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=5726572</a>

I am not sure such glasses will take off. You have always a fucking HUD before your eyes and I am not sure everybody likes that (I never tried it but I even do not like normal glasses and prefer contact lenses as I feel more free that way).<p>I would appreciate something like a small beamer a lot more where you can project a UI on a suitable surface (holograms seem to take longer ;) and control it either by a pointing device or gesture control.

These guys are from the future.

Can someone explain to me how these are different than Vuzix, and any other company after that?:<p><a href="http://www.vuzix.com/augmented-reality/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vuzix.com&#x2F;augmented-reality&#x2F;</a><p>PS and Yes, I understand the advertising potential after GG_AR. Maybe Vuzix should do the same, like Sony did against Microsoft on the E3 (PS4 vs Xboxone)

Also, alternative name:<p>Singularity shades.

I&#x27;m curious how far away the display visually renders? Do you have to focus on very close objects to see it sharply (and then can&#x27;t focus on faraway objects)? Does it rest in a medium-ish focal zone (10-30 ft?)?<p>I&#x27;d love a AR display, but I&#x27;m incredulous if it forces me to take my focus off of anything else.

The SDK works only on PC&#x27;s as per their tech spec. Wonder if it is all C# based or some MS technology.

I just took out my credit card and bought a pair. Looking forward to developing on their platform.

The technology here is groundbreaking, but personally reality is amazing enough as it is without augmentation. I honestly can&#x27;t see myself wanting to wear any iteration of these glasses in my lifetime, even if they were undetectable contact lenses.

&quot;You need hungry, imaginative and foolish people in their 20s to do this, and we have that&quot; --Article about Meta from USAToday<p>F&#x27;k you ageists... Notice how they need the old guy who invented the AR concept (Steve Feiner) to give them any credibility.

Wow, didn&#x27;t realize Meta was a YC company. It&#x27;s a very interesting product.<p>I watched the demo on Kickstarter. I couldn&#x27;t put my finger on it, but something seemed off about the object occlusion. Was that FX or real tech?

If we can get AR with the quality of the occulus rift, gesture control with very fine precision and an emotiv like layer for added thought interaction, for 300$, I think we might slowly be getting somewhere...

Awesome! Could anyone explain or provide resources for how the micro projector technology and virtual screen work? I find that tech simply fascinating.

Damn...<p>Where are our flying cars? Who cares. We have Meta glasses.

What kinds of wireless comms will the device support? The specification only seems to mention USB and HDMI interfaces?

According to specs, field of view is 23 degrees. Concept video seems to exaggerate the visible portion of AR.

Is the price of $667 a play on what Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold the original Apple I for?

Can&#x27;t wait to see them in action for myself!

I really like what you created!

It&#x27;s very interesting to note that there are many hardware (The serious ones, remember!) startups in the latest YC portfolio. I think it&#x27;d be pretty amazing to be around such an innovative bunch and do your work, even if one is doing a just software. :-)

john carmack is watching gentlemen, get ready for a job offer ;)