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Doppler Labs, Maker of "Augmented Reality Earbuds", Shuts Down

posted by martyb on Friday November 03 2017, @12:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the didn't-get-a-fair-hearing dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/1/16591970/augmented-reality-earbud-startup-doppler-labs-shuts-down-here-one

Doppler Labs, the company behind Here One smart earbuds, has announced that it's shutting down all operations today, as reported by Wired.

Founded in 2013, Doppler Labs debuted the prototype of its Here Active Listening System two years later in 2015. The battery-powered earbuds, according to Doppler Labs founder and CEO Noah Kraft, were built to enhance sound in the world around you. By using the accompanying app, users could, in theory, apply any manner of EQ settings that did everything from reduce overwhelming bass frequencies at a concert to dim the midrange chatter of co-workers while in an office. Kraft's vision for Doppler's future was an compelling idea — "we want to put a computer, speaker, and mic in everyone's ear" — but the Here Active Listening System was met with mixed reviews.

[...] Unfortunately, in bringing Here One to market the company was met with a raft of problems. According to Wired, a manufacturer change pushed production delivery from the fall 2016 to February 2017. There was also bad news on the battery front. The company hoped to offer 4.5 hours of battery life using augmented hearing and three hours of music streaming, but the unit's Bluetooth chip wound up diminishing those expectations.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @02:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @02:01PM (#591668)

    Why is that better? The image is the same, and gets scaled to the same size.

  • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:40AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:40AM (#592094) Journal

    But in the non-mobile version, it doesn't stick to the top of the page. And it doesn't have that pointless (for desktop) alt-text link. And it has labels on the navigation buttons (I would never have guessed that "?" means "random" if I had not seen the corresponding button on the desktop version). And it simply looks better on the desktop screen.

    And BTW, the mobile version also lacks the license information.

    Anyway, the worst thing is already the existence of different versions. The web was explicitly meant to be device independent.

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