Don't Ask When Episode #7 Discussion

Hey guys, been a couple days since episode #7 was released, wanted to hear your thoughts.

For me, it was nice to see such an improvement over the last revision, looking much cleaner. Would have been nice to see you or someone wear them though. Give us a sense of scale and fit.

@Corey | Founder | Perhaps you could throw them on and snap a couple pics? Also during the video you mentioned that the frame is one from the lock-in glasses. Which one and also what's happening with those? I have yet to receive mine and I've locked in over a year ago and provided about 6 frame choices.

Also, with your goal of having the alphas into our hands by the end of the year, when are your plans to show us some live functionality? As i'd assume we would see it before the glasses start shipping in large numbers, and we're coming up on August.

Overall though, a good update. Keep up the good work guys, exciting stuff

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Adam DB

Jul 26, 2019

I also really enjoyed the update, and although I - unlike Matthew - have already received the lock-in glasses, I'm also curious about the progress.

Dan, the tech is all in the arms of the glasses; the frames just hold the phantom display. Excluding the camera, of course, but I think that's still some way off.

Basically, I'm just hoping one of the first Alphas to reach a customer goes to one of the active forum members; I think we'd all appreciate the quick reflections/review that would likely elicit!

Adam DB

Jul 28, 2019

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@Dan Guy As far as I have seen, the projector is in the arms, not the frame - the frame being the part of the glasses, that hold the lenses, and the arms being the part, that rests on your ear. With this definition, there's no need for a connection between the frame and the arms, except for a camera connection, and I'm guessing the camera won't be a part of the Alpha program. Once we reach Beta, I'm sure we'll see a different hinge design that'll accommodate the wiring for the camera.

Dan Guy

Jul 28, 2019

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@Adam DB Were the projector in the arms, as with Focals by North, that would be true. They are not, so you are wrong. It's a good thing! Shima are cooler than you know. One of the awesome innovations by LaForge is that, rather than using an external projector which projects onto the lenses, they are "projecting" the image from the side through the lenses. You can see this throughout "Don't Ask When #2": https://youtu.be/Zsx2oZwYffk?t=235 - very early functional prototype. https://youtu.be/Zsx2oZwYffk?t=309 and https://youtu.be/Zsx2oZwYffk?t=394 - design/"looks-like" prototype where you can see that there is no projector visible in the arms https://youtu.be/Zsx2oZwYffk?t=529 - Corey says, "We stopped at that point putting the display itself in the frame, and instead we started putting the display next to the lens." https://youtu.be/Zsx2oZwYffk?t=666 - You can see the projector on the side of the lens and the wires going from the arms to the projectors in the frame face.

Adam DB

Jul 29, 2019

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@Dan Guy Even if I'm not wrong about the display position, wiring for battery etc. will still have to pass through the frame, so I'm wrong about the wiring bit anyway...

Dan Guy

Jul 26, 2019

I'm always excited to have an update.

The glasses look cool. I assume those are just frames with none of the internals, because those hinges don't look like they could be hiding any wiring. I'm more interested in seeing functioning prototypes than frame designs.