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Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

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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

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Some updates: - Was in Japan last week as I had a death in close family friend / also tied to my family's business (will be spending more time in Japan in the coming years now, a discussion for another time) - Some of you (our customers) have Roc Camera shipments that are waiting, and we'll most likely get it wrapped up and shipped this week and/or next week (these are the final shipments for our customers who preordered in Oct 2024) - We've also got more software feature updates planned, we'll get to these further fixes / updates as soon after we ship out all the cameras - We've also got something else planned for this month - Hope you are doing well

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Received Roc #94

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Playlist for packing Roc Camera boxes deep into the night: - black hole sun, soundgarden - plush, stone temple pilots - down in a hole, alice in chains - today, smashing pumpkins - it's been awhile, staind - she sells sanctuary, the cult - take a look around, limp bizkit

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Our goal is currently to ship all Roc Camera pre-orders and fulfill them and ship them out before the end of the month

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We get this question a lot. Here's what I think: it's highly unlikely that we are going to build hardware to retrofit existing devices. That being said, the reason is because I think many future devices in the long run will have this, and what we're planning to do is start building a standard that builds on top of C2PA to standardize how these verifiable real images are made in the form of real JPEGs, we're planning to call them RJPEG. I think it's going to be longer-term option for a lot of devices to have this out of the box. A lot of the newer cameras and even things and sensors be on cameras as well.

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I have definitely considered / thought of something similar to this where it's a social network, but only Roc Camera photos using Farcaster protocol

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Yeah, a lot of little things: - Using the right tools or just discovering what the right tools for some of the right jobs are. - Simplifying the designs making it easier to manufacture - Optimizing for manufacturability meaning we changed the design or added different parts to the process that would cut down time on manual labor - Printing other 3D printed components that would aid in the process of accelerating production. I think we have more things that we printed that are used to aid the process of building a device compared to the number of components that go into an actual device. - Some of this stuff also isn't just about manufacturability either. It took a long time to dial in the filament in the way that we wanted it to print in a way that we could print 100 of them. - Software repeatability as well - there's definitely still things that are stochastic - but it took us a while to dial in a script that would set things up as well while maintaining new features in the process of manufacturing - Adding things to the list that we didn't initially account for. Figuring that out. Other Things like: - How do we do shipping? - What the box is going to go into? - Where are the labels are going to go? - What stickers do we need? Just all of these things that you don't think about when you start making the camera itself.

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I wish I were kidding, but Roc Camera 069 came out really.... nice

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Upgraded it with some stickers

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One thing we've learned, generally that the rate at which we make them speeds up: - There were countless, maybe 20~30 devices to get to Roc Camera 001, if you think about it, it took years to get to the first device - Device 002~010 was a grind, a a month or two for prod ready - Device 010~020 was hard, a week to make at a time - Device 020~050 was hard, but getting easier days - Device 050~080 was better, a day or two - Device 080~100 - we're doing all of these today

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It ain’t pretty but it’s working

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