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Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI

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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

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There’s a Roc camera in here I’m gonna unbox it live with @july in an hour This is an unapologetic flex

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Be careful what you wish for I will do this

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i'm holding a roc camera

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Testing vertical video

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Ideas of future devices we've thought about beyond Roc Camera: - Pin devices - Humane like, that sounds fun - but low processing power, means we have to rely on phone or cloud. Ew. - Local Alexa replacement that sits in your house and houses all of your data - so there is no cloud anymore, just your private cloud - that runs a local model that doesn't suck - or is connected to the cloud. Essentially an embedded GPU with voice - Put Roc camera, but with wheels or as a multi-rotor - Dynamicland like computing environments for your home (I'm still not convinced that AR-like glasses are the way to go shared environment just seems more... fun) - I like this because it also projects images onto things that already exist in your physical space and makes physical/digital divide more connected in a 1-to-1 way - And more... We are going to keep growing Roc Camera beyond v1: - We're planning v2 already for the camera, there will be upgrades / things we want to do in v1, but didn't quite make it so we cut it for v2 - TBD on the details, but things like GPS, audio, video, live streaming etc - The general core thesis is: how to build physical technology that connect humans in a real way this age of AI

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Also more boxes

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We are making more of them

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Devices are 004, 005, and 006 are getting assembled today

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I’ve been feeling this way For a month, maybe two

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How it started (Sept 2024) How it’s going (May 2025)

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I’ve been thinking a lot about this. And I think ontologically, truth at its core is objectively unreachable — which is fine. (This is left as an exercise for the readers of philosophy, which is a pursuit in an of itself) But I do think that humans in this current age of AI and the Internet as a whole — want to feel like other humans do exist. And they really took this photo (I know I do) I miss that, human connection - you know? So I think what’s missing is the feeling of human connection in contact as being real and I’d like to make that possible

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I know Faust isn’t focusing on journalism right now, but would love to see a marketing campaign where people capture crazy things we can prove are true with the Roc Camera

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100% we'd like to figure out a way that we can seamlessly verify the photos that are taken with Roc Camera with farcaster itself either as a mini app or just a client also - in the long run, i think it'll be like HTTPS/SSL. In the 2000s people were afraid to put their credit card numbers as raw inputs over HTTP, but once there was security, people could feel safe to buy things. similarly, maybe people won't have to verify the ZK proof every time they view the photo taken by Roc Camera, but eventually there will be some watermark, or badge that says it is real, and that's enough. A lot of it is TBD, but open to ideas

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