Paul Stenhouse: Meta's Orion glasses, Zillow's risk scores for house listings

Your next smartphone will be on your face  

Meta showcased their "Orion" glasses which they believe will be the smartphone of the future. They'll allow you to see 'holograms' of information or avatars of friends and colleagues, as well as have instant voice access to AI. This version of the glasses is the best we've seen when it comes to being an attractive pair of glasses that are light weight and have a high-quality projection screen that it's actually useful.  

There's a tonne of tech around these, including a wristband that can interpret your hand signals to interact with the holograms and take actions. These glasses are not ready for primetime - they're costing $10,000 to produce. Right now you can buy the Meta Ray-Ban sunglasses, which are getting an upgrade. You'll be able to ask the AI to tell you about things you can see, thanks to video recognition tools.  
  
Will a wildfire take out your dream home? A major real-estate site will give you a forecast  

Zillow is one of America's go-to real estate listing platforms. They were the leader in providing a "Zestimate" of what your home is worth and will now lead the way to educate buyers on the potential climate risks to be thinking about. By the end of the year there'll be a section on each listing to show a risk score for the potential for wildfires, flooding, extreme temperatures, high winds and poor air quality, as well as the potential cost of insurance over time. Of those new listings added in August - 16% were at major risk of a wildfire and 13% at major risk of flooding.   

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from News Talks AB.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
It's time to catch out with that texpert Paul Stenhouse
is here.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yield to Paul.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good morning Jack.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, every time they have tried to introduce some techno glasses,
some wearable that you put on your face in the
digital age, it always seems to fail. So explain to
me why you reckon. Maybe our next smartphone is going
to be on our face.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yes, so Meta actually has made kind of these face glasses,
if you will. Kind of cool, right, Okay, they have
some glasses. Okay, here we go. So I have a
friend of mine. He's got the Meta ray Van sunglasses
and he really likes them because they have an in
built speaker and so you can be wearing your sunglasses

(00:54):
and listening to your music and the right there. Now,
does he use the camera that's built in? Does he
use the AI? Okay, no, he uses it to listen
to music. But it's a very good gateway, right because
Meta believe that, yes, the future of our phone as
it is now will we will wear it and we
won't be looking at a screen, but the screen will

(01:15):
just be embodied into our every day, and we'll be
seeing holograms of information, maybe even avatars of our friends
and colleagues, and of course Jack right there at our
beacon core will be voice access to some AI two.
And I will say that I know that we've talked
about this for a long time, and I will say

(01:36):
the tech this time actually looks pretty good. First of all,
I think the glasses actually look reasonably attractive. We're in
a Google glass. They didn't look attraction that these ones,
though reasonably lightweight. They have a projection screen that's of
high enough quality you can actually do things like a
video call on it. And they've got some pretty cool

(01:58):
teche around it as well, including a wristband that you
put on kind of looks like a Fitbit without a
screen or something like that, and it interprets your hand
signals and do actions and gestures.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Right these new.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Glasses, the Meta has teased us and said these are
going to be the future, the costing Meta ten thousand
dollars each to produce. So we're not there, yeah, okay,
but they do believe that we are on the path.
And I guess if you want to toast the future,
I guess the rayband sunglasses are the way to go
for right now?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah? Yeah, okay, So what we're going to do is
we'll put a photo up online so that people can
have a bit of a look. They do have a
slight kind of Poindextery quality the frames obviously, the fiddle
of that technology inside them, the frames that gay they
come pretty.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Chunky, a little Clark kink.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes they are. That's a that's a really good way
to That's a really good way to put it. So
what sort of time frame would we be talking if
this was to be if these were to be produced
for the masses, when do you reckon? You know, it
might be in a slightly more attainable price range.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yes, I think we're a good couple of years away
from this, right Yeah, yeah, ten thousand dollars is down
to like a thousand dollars I think is going to
take a little bit of time. Yeah, But Mark Secondberg
made a really funny point. Actually, he thought that the
technology to do the kind of projection and the holograms
and all that stuff would be before the AI, and

(03:21):
it's actually turned out to be the other way around.
The AI has managed to.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Beat interesting the other piece. Yeah okay, oh, that's really interesting. Now,
will a wildfire take out your dream home in the US.
Now you can go to the kind of the American
equivalent of one roof and find out.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yeah, so Zillo is the website over here that people
go to, and Zillo has been a real leader. They
have they're going to be called a zestamate, which is
where they work out based on market conditions and demand
and other homes and all that good stuff, what your
home is worth. But now they're trying to figure out
what could happen to your home, both in terms of

(03:59):
climate disasters and your insurance cost over time. So it's
going to look at your risk score for things like
wildfire and flooding, wow, high winds and poor your quality.
So fun stat This hasn't rolled out quite yet. They're
on the process of rolling it out. It should be
rolled out before the end of the year. But of
all of the new listings that they added in August,

(04:19):
sixteen percent were at a major risk of a wildfire
and thirteen percent we're at a major risk of flooding.
So I think the insurance is going to get a
little more expensive over time.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
This Yeah, yeah, that's remarkable, Okay, cool, Hey, thank you.
So much, Paul, We appreciate your time. As always, catch
us OTIN. That's our Textburt Paul Steamhouse.

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