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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

Did you buy a Roc Camera? Are you in the SF Bay Area?

We're doing a local invite-only demo day / get your roc on August 10th

Pls DM if interested (thanks)

We’ve shipped the first three roc.camera devices from /faust 
and more start going out today 🪨 🎉 

Back in Oct 2024 we set a north star: build a camera that captures verifiably real moments for humans in the age of AI

And so here is our raw v1: 80% now, working on the last 20% -- excited to start testing that hypothesis today

We’ve been beta testing with a few folks the past few weeks and ironing out bugs / issues. Big thanks to the folks that have been willing testers (@7858.eth, @nicholas and @austink) 

Interested in providing feedback / testing? DM me

Domestic orders first (in the US) then international orders. Early edition $399 ends Aug 10, as we move into post-tariffs batch 2 pricing for v1. This is happening (!?)

If you've read this (yes, you) -- thank you.

Excited to get you a Roc Camera, and real human moments to you, soon

Updates on Roc Camera:
- Domestic orders shipping starting in May is our current estimate (may still slip)
- Software work has been focused on bug fixes in video streaming (a lot of gstreamer / WebRTC / RTSP / H.264 codec fixes we’ve been slogging through)
- Also want to make sure it’s GPU hardware accelerated
- Hardware side is done
- Currently wrapping up optimizing for manufacturability 
- We've printed all the lenses
- Next we'll print all the other individual components in batch one by one
- Then after, we’ll tackle assembly
- All our boxes that we ordered months ago have all arrived
- Then need to get all the stickers that go on the devices 
- Then we will be shipping them out

Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

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