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1/n Today we’re opening preorders for Roc Camera (beta):  

A camera that can take verifiably real moments in the age of AI  

🧵 A thread on https://roc.camera/ from @faust

If you haven’t already seen it

Roc Camera is a thing now

Folks asked a bit more about some behind the scenes with Roc Camera so here we are

While we’re doing some testing on the device right now — We’re in the process of ordering boxes as well. Here’s one of the options we like:

I've verified from reliable sources. New visual Turing Test: this is a real robot demo! The controller is a neural net trained in Isaac simulator using reinforcement learning and then sim2real. Reward engineering is all you need.

Walking gait's got swag but we need these robots… https://t.co/w3CxFKoRNy

@DrJimFan Great to have this confirmation. It’s wild how CGI and AI videos are so convincing they make us doubt real ones.

For important events, maybe we need video notary services with an authorized person present to see the event and then certify the official video posted online.

The Humanoid Hub

Why the world needs roc.camera

https://x.com/thehumanoidhub/status/1877398594535243996?s=46

The ondevice zk module from @faust expanded to all devices on @weatherxm  (cc @vrypan.eth ) to generate proof of untampered data including calibration, streamed to Blocksense network (zk oracle built by @zahary.eth ) and fed to products like Skysight (built by Matthew Scutter) is a match made in heaven 🤯

Wdyt?

End of last year
We shipped our first device 
for beta testing

given *every* device now records calls/meetings at sound driver level. we'll see emergence of apps/devices that guarantee your call is not being recorded

To be clear I have zero knowledge of how either project works (🤣) so I don’t know what the two stories here are or if there are even two distinct stories vs subplots. 

But jeez the worldcoin Orb has terrible branding and design. The thing may be zk-ified and be made by a “tools for humanity” gang, but it *looks* like an Eye of Sauron with Sam Altman as Sauron. It’s the Segway of DID and attestation projects.

The Roc camera at least *looks* like it’s for the people/of the people/by the people even if @july turns evil and goes full Sauron on us.

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

july

What if @faust is just part of a modular cypherpunk hardware stack?

https://x.com/eshear/status/1867663612380373352?s=46

plus +

Hey @bountybot 

I'm offering $5 USDC to every person who shares photographic proof in /plus of them adding value to their community IRL 

This can be anything

- smiling at someone 
- meeting a neighbor
- picking up trash

random reasons why crypto is important

- strict global consensus (h/t polynya) 
- ability for anyone to experiment in previously gatekept systems design at scale (economic systems, governance systems). 
- borderless immutable money 
- prove who is human on the internet 
- prove what is real vs a deepfake 
- own your digital persona (gets more important as more of our lives move online)  
- An immutable record of history — preserve culture and stories. 
- allow any subculture to connect and share value globally 
- escape state level attacks on your worth 
- attribution for your work 
- forces greater transparency for any system 
- powers a globalized gig economy that can also be reputation based and trusted 
- reduced middlemen 
- global access to investment vehicles which are currently gatekept 
- great upside so younger generations may actually be able to  afford homes
- can prevent the metaverse from having a dictator who has an off switch

Prove physical reality
Prove what is real

another idea for ROC

build a privacy preserving ratings/reviews platform. prove that you visited the place with a photo but hide your personal details

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

Also, some things that only a tee can provide, like provenance of real world data

would be cool if Roc Camera becomes an imaged based anon client

building /presto /fc-marketplace // prev. rabbithole, village global

Foundation models will commoditize and all that will remain is social coordination to derive new data + do things in the physical world.

🎯 

https://warpcast.com/rubinovitz/0x4a1bb3b0

Curious | building robots | https://anurajrp.io/about/

"Token" for blockchains should be like "packets" for general internet stuff. Nobody but geeks should really have to know about them. The lowest level retail user abstraction should be some token equivalent of "session" in relation to packets.

By analogy to TCP vs. UDP, we're now in the UDP stage of "tokens" where the lack of hard guarantees on key behaviors means you can't quite abstract away from the low level but you get certain kinds of high performance analogous to "speed" for UDP.

Maybe regular tokens are like UDP and stablecoins are like nascent TCP?

Low slippage would be analogous to low packet loss visible to users

100%

https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x4b5315f6

Thanks for having me @nounishprof & @adrienne !

And http://roc.camera/ is still available for preorder !

Our DMs are open, feel free to reach out if you'd like one, or just have questions or excited about what you can do with it

Here’s a prototype print we did a while back w/o the internal components

Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI