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Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

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Excited to announce that Roc Camera is open for batch 2 orders! Current lead times are about 2-3 weeks depending on where you are We've got a new website - let us know what you think :) 🪨📸 (https://roc.camera/)

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One of our early ideas for Roc Camera was to build a insertable Gameboy-style cartridge that was actually a hardware wallet under the hood. These cartridges would actually be a hardware wallet and have an Ethereum EOA and they would contain value. So, for example, we might have 10 credits for app coins on Zora L2 or Base or wherever. Customers would buy these cartridges (hardware wallets) they would not have to ever buy crypto. You would just insert them into the camera, and you would have credits to take photos with that would automatically launch tokens with. That was one of the ideas that we initially explored, and we still might do it. It was an early iteration and sketch of this.

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Early sketches for Roc Camera From 2024/7/11

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the general direction should not be in making more laws but in making it easy to prove some video/photo is real https://open.substack.com/pub/thealgorithmicbridge/p/ai-video-should-be-illegal

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https://farcaster.xyz/dogfacts.eth/0xa8e676d6

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One of the main reasons that got me initially excited about Ethereum was a the potential for a civilizational scale infrastructure; a world computer that could be guaranteed to hold global data and execute some function in the future. An execution run time that would be really difficult to bring down, which could also solve tragedy of the commons like problems. https://farcaster.xyz/july/0xa448fbf1

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IF we want real, true AR: augmented reality data, we need information that could be good for a Bloomberg for physical reality; something that uses this verified reality protocol. An SSL for reality. Think of it this way: In the first dot-com run-up, HTTPS and SSL became important because it created infrastructure to be able to trust cryptographically secure text so that one could send credit card information and other things. This built the foundation eventually for e-commerce and Amazon and everything else and PayPal to take place. I would hope for something similar. First, we build an SSL for reality; a verified reality protocol, an open civilizational infrastructure and that eventually l becomes the foundation for overlaying trusted information about the real world everywhere in the world for both humans and AI, robots, and vehicles to use.

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I’m excited about civilizational infrastructure and problems that can become widespread before they are evident One of the reasons we continue to work on http://roc.camera because I believe it contains something of importance in the long run

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I do want to write more about why we are building roc.camera but holy moly this chart

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Roc Camera on HN ended up with about ~500+ upvotes and 400+ comments, many inbound messages, emails and questions open for orders for batch 2 today (http://roc.camera)

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Roc Camera on the front page of news yc Finally got insulted by some nerds: achievement unlocked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45690251

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We’ve shipped all Roc Camera preorders 🎉 this past week In October 2024, we opened orders for a camera that could take verifiably real photos in the age of AI. Hundreds of you believed in us. Today, we’re proud to say every preorder has shipped (with just a few newer orders still heading out and some being handed off in person soon). The number one thing we want to say is: thank you That being said, we’ll now be shifting our focus to improving the product -- expect more software updates in the near future. We also have some more announcements soon on opening orders as well…

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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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