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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

Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

2/ Photography used to capture very real moments

There was a time when taking photos felt magical. A moment frozen in time. It gave people something extraordinary: a tangible memory, a reflection of reality. More than just a picture; a snapshot of a history, a place. It was meaningful, rare, real

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

3/ AI has blurred the lines of what is real

Smartphones, tablets, and social media have made photos instantly sharable. On top of that, generative AI has blurred the line between what is real and what is imagined, its really hard these days I feel like to distinguish between the two

4/ You know, that’s why we built Roc Camera

We wanted to build a camera that takes verifiably real photos in an age where the veracity and trust of digital media have eroded

Roc camera captures verifiably real moments using sensor attestations, client side zero-knowledge proofs, and TEEs - to bring back legitimacy

5/ Verifiably real moments

Reminds me of JMW Turner. In a world where digital uncertainty is rampant, perhaps grounding ourselves in reality is how we pave the path to the future. 

The hope is that Roc Camera gives us a way to navigate the digital world, like how explorers of old used stars to navigate the vast seas

6/ Today we’re opening preorders

Roc Camera is in Beta and not production-ready yet. But, we're excited about the future that it points towards, and want to share it with the world

We hope it’s useful and welcome your feedback
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TLDR: Preorders open – est shipping late 2024 / early 2025

6/ Today we’re opening preorders

Roc Camera is in Beta and not production-ready yet. But, we're excited about the future that it points towards, and want to share it with the world

We hope it’s useful and welcome your feedback
￼￼
TLDR: Preorders open – est shipping late 2024 / early 2025

http://roc.camera/

PI4 as the onboard compute.
@july - this is so cool, I love seeing this hard technical design challenge emerge over the long-game, and yield to your (and teams) giant creative brains.  Huge respect.

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One of the reasons is that incumbents are slow to innovate (we tried) 

Another reason is: hardware + firmware + software is the best stack to guarantee that the photos are real from security perspective 

Also tbh I just wanna make a sick camera

Love 💕 it, I’m your big fan - but why camera and not just chip or sw for people who already make great cameras?

brb running a light node on the raspberry PI in my camera

Can it detect if you take a photograph of an AI-generated image?