Meta x Rayban Glasses GEN 2 can map on Mapillary

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Hello,
Yeah, a Meta product can contribute to Meta.

Meta Glasses Gen2 are “smart” glasses which can take photos and videos, help you without touching the phone (and asking “Hey Meta, what can I see here?” can also help blind people).

You can connect the app via the “Meta AI” app. (NOTE: connecting the phone will use GPS when you say “Hey Meta”. For example, “Hey Meta, date please” checks the GPS for no reason, but “Hey Meta, a nearby supermarket?” also, and this is useful)

As I said above, when you take photos or videos, it doesn’t have a GPS trace inside.

My current workflow for uploading is:

  1. Recording with Meta Glasses (“Hey Meta, start recording”)
  2. Creating a GPS trace using an app on your device
  3. Re-recording if necessary (maximum 3 minutes of recording, so..)
  4. Downloading the GPS trace shared via Discord (I use this platform)
  5. Downloading the video from my Google Photos storage
  6. Uploading the video to the Mapillary uploader, then adding the GPS trace when the uploader asks for it.

Then, that’s it; it uploads.

Here’s an example from the Meta Glasses Mapillary

(For admins; please fix the “Captured with …”)

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@boris RBM are used for captures :slight_smile:
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BR, Yaro

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You reminded me of Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom - Ars Technica ,:rofl: you’d better watch where you’re going with those glasses on.

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Uh oh, if that’s real then…

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What’s so special about now?

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We were discussing this some time ago, and I saw your post and added a tag. Nothing very specific; it is just an interesting thing to me. To be specific about why is this interesting, as sometimes, when I capture with my phone and hold it by my side in my hands, people just look suspicious at me (and I understand that :slight_smile: ). Once, a person jumped into the FOV of my camera and started talking, as if it were a live stream. Glasses will partially mitigate this oftentimes unwanted attention.

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BR, Yaro

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:yawning_face: I am neither excited nor impressed at all. I am sorry but the resulting quality is below pathetic. It is even worse than shaky smartphone captures. Its added value is none or maybe even just clutter in the overall dataset. If this is what we can expect from AR glasses then we should better stick to what we have today and which has proven to work very well. You know, every tool has its purpose and asymptotic curve of perfection.

:disguised_face: Disguising the camera in glasses may be a possible technical option/solution to mitigate this problem but it has a shady and dishonest taste of spying :detective: (in the public) to it. This will not meet with wide public adoption. Every enterprise has to meet with some level of public adoption in order to be successful. Hence, I do not think this is the way the mapping community should go forward. However, what does meet public adoption is when mappers wear a safety :safety_vest: vest with terms like “land survey” or “public works”, etc. on it. Sometimes, it is better to be open candid about something in order to be accepted and not be viewed as a potential danger. Laws and regulations are nice and although you may not be doing anything wrong or illegal, they are just some words on a piece of paper written in some dust covered books. Because when people feel threatened, no matter whether for rational or irrational reasons, they usually act in all kinds of strange, unpredictable, and extreme ways, including a violent response. However, when they see something they are conceptually already familiar with from a distance then they usually feel safe and do not resort to extreme behavior. Again, laws and regulations are nice but the human psyche is wired the way it is (evolved over thousands of years of evolution to protect individuals from existential dangers) and the thing that shapes reality ultimately. Notice that usually people do not feel threatened by cameras installed in or mounted on cars. Why? Because people have learned that as long as a car stays on the road, they do not pose an immediate or existential threat to them. They also learned that they cannot take on a car (physically) directly because they know that they will lose.

The same goes for other human beings. When you try to conceal something that may be dangerous to others (regardless whether it is an existential threat or not), others will be suspicious of you. However, when you send out clear deescalating familiar signals from afar then people may still not welcome you but they surely will know how to deal with you in a non‑escalating way. People most often chose the non‑escalating way not because it is always the best way to solve an issue but because it is the cheapest and fastest way to solve an issue. Every escalation costs way more energy and time, sometimes also health and money, than going with something that is already familiar. So, wear an appropriate safety vest for the least amount of unfriendly encounters. :wink:

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Thank you for the detailed answer. Everything makes sense.

PS As a side note, I think Smart Glasses (I guess all of them) also show a visual signal if one captures an image or video by displaying a blinking light.

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Yaro

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But the glasses show a signal recording

Gen2 does, I dont know about ski ones if you need it, I can make it a video of the light blinking