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Oh boy: "Listen to me, do you want to use a computer that is always looking at your hands?" It took a second for that warning to sink in.
by pivo 3y ago
Oh boy: "Listen to me, do you want to use a computer that is always looking at your hands?" It took a second for that warning to sink in.
- addandsubtract 3y agoThe video also offers a solution. Obscure the view of your hands from the camera(s).
- bombcar 3y agoSomeone at Apple had to design the watch to detect certain hand motions and purposely ignore them. That's a thing that someone had to do, otherwise false positives would be embarrassingly pasted across the Internet for to be laughed at.
- Hamuko 3y agoShouldn't the watch be on your non-dominant hand?
- addandsubtract 3y agoWouldn't your dominant hand be on your mouse?
- wharvle 3y agoThere's either got to be a big generational gap on preference for this, or a lot of folks out there have developed mousing ambidexterity.
- brewdad 3y agoI'm a lefty through and through in my sixth decade going around the sun. Mousing with my left hand is weird. Like completely wrong. Even on a touchpad I tend to "mouse" with my right hand.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoSome lefty's do. I use the mouse right handed and even hold a guitar right handed. Some things you just train yourself to conform to society with. Kind of a shame I'm not an artist because I can have an amazing setup with a drawing tablet, keyboard, and mouse that is all at my beck and call. (and... that, with my off hand as well. No clue why. I guess I hold a screen with my dominant hand?).
- Hamuko 3y agoThere's actually data on this! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2021.2006211 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1357650X.2021.2...
- swozey 3y agolol, it doesn't show in the shortened url. I clicked this and read other things then went to that tab and went "wtf was I looking up here?" possibly nsfw if you work for the puritans and love kelloggs
- Eric_WVGG 3y agoWhy? (I switch wrists every six weeks ago because I think the tan line starts to look weird, it's similar usable from either)
- Hamuko 3y agoBecause it allows you to use your dominant hand to control it, and also your non-dominant hand is more often free than your dominant hand, so it's free to swing around when you walk and better count your steps.
- michaelt 3y agoThat's all very well for the folks who only need one hand...
- brookst 3y agoNo, it’s all ML models. It is very unlikely that an ML model trained on wrist motions for walking and running would falsely report steps for… other activities.
- planede 3y agoThey possibly had to include training data tagged with "inactive" though, including that.
- nox101 3y agoOne of the reasons I got rid of my apple watch is because it would congratulate me for successfuly completing my exercise for the day just from turning over on the sofa. It would also tell me how good I slept when I forgot to wear it to bed. So, at least for me, that ML doesn't work
- ThalesX 3y agoI didn't give it up, but I did laugh one morning at 2:30AM, laying in bed, dozing off and getting startled by the watch telling me I've been sitting for awhile and it suggests I get up and move a bit.
- bombcar 3y agoIt's rare, but I've been woken up at least once by a "congratulations on completing your stand/exercise!".
- brookst 3y agoDefinitely weird, pretty sure that’s not what most people experience. But such is the statistical nature of ML; your particular movements on that particular sofa fooled it.
- chaostheory 3y ago“Hands” Yeah, but at least Apple focuses on privacy
- LeafItAlone 3y agoI’d wager most people take their phones in into the bathroom with them and use them on the toilet. I’ve even seen people on video calls in public restrooms! I honestly don’t think the general public is all that concerned. (But I am)
- solarkraft 3y agoI think we're past that. Our phones have already seen so many things we could find embarrassing. One smart thing Apple usually does when using cameras for sensing (see Face ID) is never showing you the image, making it feel a lot less creepy.
- gvurrdon 3y agoA good point. Going into a supermarket I know I'll be filmed, but will avoid self-checkouts where I'm shown a live video of my exciting checkout experience as it does make it feel a lot creepier.