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Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI
@july
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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@july
Roc Camera #69 is still sitting around and I don’t know what to do with it maybe we should auction it at some point
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@les
Bucket list achievements:
✔️arrive home late to kid baked cookies and refrigerated milk
✔️capture incorruptible cryptographic family memories
I like my kids to cozy up next to the ideas of the future. They don’t have to be all-in, just brush shoulders against curiosity & happenstance.
roc.camera feels like the digital Polaroid for ai era. My kids and I bond over taking “grainy” images and capture an older aesthetic.
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@july
So initially, we went down the Farcaster route - of adding farcaster keys to the device, so each Roc Camera gets an account, so you can upload directly to farcaster. We also build a little Farcaster client that runs on the Roc Camera. And while we still very likely may do this in the future, but my gut -- it didn't quite feel right as the next step. So we scrapped it and headed in a different direction
Now we're currently working on building a place on the web for the photos to go, and an API to be able to verify said photos with
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@july
I did a podcast on Nexus on Roc Camera
Check it out here: https://x.com/NexusLabs/status/1996657695924146198?s=20
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@july
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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@anurajenp
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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@july
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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@july
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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@july
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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