Soon man will sell another ads in their vision, while collecting the info on how best to manipulate them at the same time.
Nobody needs these glasses.
If you wear smart glasses and try to approach me, I'm ignoring you and walking away. I don't care who you are, I don't talk to cyborgs.
If it becomes a huge thing this might age poorly.
I remember when wireless earbuds first came out. The sentiment was the same "You'll never see me with those because I'll look like a crazy person talking to themselves." Now it's completely normal and society accepts it.
I still think people look mental lol
Yeah when I cross someone in the street using them at first they still look to me like they're off their meds and talking to sky daddy out loud. It goes faster than before for me to realize "they must have an earbud in" but that's still my first reaction.
And, honestly, even after I realise I still think they look like a pillock
please make it fucking stop
The same as when Google tried it.
Privacy Invasion turned up to 11.
as with home assistants, “AI" and many other examples, they seem like cool tech that could be useful but it's unfortunatelly ruined by the companies peddling them... hard pass for me
If it was just a screen, general purpose processor, and customisable OS then I'd have one already.
I don't feel like paying a monthly subscription fee for a product to lie to me every time I ask a question, and relay everything I do back to a company who will sell my personal data to anyone.
I love my Pebble watch and enjoy playing with new tech. If a company like Pebble can make one without the spyware, bloatware, and AI, then I'll probably get one.
I am a wearer of (regular prescription) glasses. The closest I get to "smart" glasses is my XReal, which is not much more than fancy head mounted display. Which is exactly where I see the added value. The creepy concept of an always present AI, camera's constantly online etc terrifies me. No one needs this. Plus, what do they expect, all people with clear vision to now start wearing this facebook commercial constantly? I truly hope this never leaves the gimmick-level it deserves and dies a quick and painful death.
I'm holding out for the far less obtrusive Smart Contact Lenses powered by the eyes synaptic energy. It's just a matter of time.
while they aren't really out yet, I can already say I don't want one unless they are significantly dumbed down, with 0 (zero) running costs (beside charging the battery, of course)
Wearable tech has been kicked around since the 70s.
I think it will eventually stick.
I would absolutely love to try them, just would prefer open source to anything being offered rn.
I don't trust any of the companies coming out with these to not be tapping in and accessing any of the devices data.
I assume you're recording me and I don't want to talk to anyone who has them.
Burn them with fire.
It legit seems like it could have legs.
Did Meta/Facebook say what the battery life they managed is?
I don't think smart glasses are going to be completely standalone anytime soon. Chip technological progress has been relatively slow in the past years, and I think we're plateauing a bit with how much you can physically shrink transistors. Maybe there will be a technological breakthrough that will allow much more powerful chips at much smaller sizes, but I feel that's not gonna happen in any sort of near term. I think glasses are going to become companions for phones and that most processing will be done on phones. As for my thoughts on the glasses themselves, I don't really know what I think about them. I would be much more comfortable if they were completely locally processed without touching the cloud, but even then it is a bit weird to constantly have cameras looking at you all the time.
I think if they ever get good enough that a lot of people are wearing them, a lot of companies will put rules in place to keep employees from wearing them at work.
Restaurants, hotels, and other service industries don't want their employees posting video of insane customers to their personal TikTok profiles. Any company with any sort of technical or financial or medical data won't want employees to be able to take photos or video secretly.
I could see companies even attempting to ban them for customers. Like banks, airports, stadiums or other areas where large crowds of soft targets would gather. Schools to protect the security and privacy of children. It's one thing to go in a record with a phone; that is visible and draws attention. Being able to record completely in secret will be unappetizing to many (except when the government does it, of course, no one must question our police).
My only devil’s advocate to this is that phone cameras are already very prevalent and this is only a minor issue in society atm. Fuck camera glasses, though.
They're nothing but just a new way for companies to track us more intensely 🤣
Privacy nightmare
EU privacy laws would have to be rewritten for smart glasses to be usable in public. Let's not do that.
Can‘t wait for a new US trade deal to soften that up.
Let meta write the laws and get only 60% tariffs. Von der Leyen will be enthusiastic about it.
I don't like von der Leyen but she's been more steadfast against Donnie than I'd expected. Not in everything and not as much as she should but I don't see her just caving to absolutely everything.
I just want the screen built into the glasses. So I guess the ability to cast to them or mirror my phone screen would be enough. I don't need the AI, camera, probably a lot of other features. I guess my use case my not be the same as everyone's.
If we had decent privacy, they could be amazing. Imagine something like Facebook, the way it used to be advertised, that could identity your friends and give you some of the information they've chosen to share with you.
Instead of trying to frantically remember your friend's new partner's name, you get a subtle name bar above their head. Maybe you get a reminder about their birthday, or a life event they've shared.
Unfortunately though, we're currently stuck with the shitty version that going to extract all the data it can, and sell it to whoever can afford it :(
They need to be smashed to bits... every single one of them.
I can really see the potential in them. Like, I keep envisioning glasses that analyze what is infront of you, help to magnify, help people with eye issues and plenty of other things.
But, as I've see what has been done with VR least with Facebook, is that I can see the technobro applying some dystopia level shit on there. Be prepared to see ads - that you can't close.
In theory? Could be cool in some cases I guess. But I don't really want more tech, nor do I want another device I need to charge. In practice? I don't trust Meta, or any of these large tech corporations, to not turn this into a privacy and security nightmare. Also a waste of electricity - these AI models will need to analyze a lot of audio and video to be useful.
It would be great for my industry. I'm in the trades and sometimes worry on jobs that I could get put in situations where it's a he said she said kind of thing. Having video of everything I've done would be handy. Also if someone happens to be a wanted felon and I could get some money from crime stoppers through facial recognition, that could be handy too.
Just imagine the ad-serving possibilities...
I hope they come down in price to the point where you can get 'em for cheap on the used market in order to repurpose the optics and screens to make dumb hmd's.
If they addressed the privacy nightmares that they are likely to present... by not being directly connected to the internet, by using a local and contained personal AI instance, by never being able to film anything with them without it being clearly obvious to others... then I'd be excited for that kind of tech.
But we all know that it'll turn out to be the dystopian, corporately-connected, data-leaking version of the tech that'll spread everywhere. So, I'm actually not really looking forward to it.
I think were I a man of stronger convictions, I'd rip off and smash any pair of camera equipped glasses I'd encounter.
This sounds awesome except the ever present AI. I know my phone and anyone else's phone and basically any Internet connected device in my vicinity is actively spying on me at all times, I dont need a constant reminder.
I really want a screen on the inside of glasses though. If I could do 2 menial jobs AND catch up on all the TV everyone keeps recommending me I would be so happy.
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Well maybe not so happy but I'd at least be able to stop hearing "you havent watched (stuff) yet!? Omg! You HAVE TO...
The ability to watch something while doing dishes is intriguing but the concept of having short form content (instagram reels in this case) accessible one inch from my eyeballs any time I get bored is kind of scary. I downgraded to a dumbphone due to how short form content had cooked my attention span.
Great for pervs. I thought we went through this bullshit with Google Glass and the Glassholes.
I think they’ll become mainstream eventually. It seems obvious to me that they’d be useful and eventually a far superior experience to a smart phone. If and when they start to gain steam, there will be a backlash of some degree that will likely die out because the vast majority of people have no concern for digital privacy. I think the google glass backlash was a result of them looking weird and the personalities of the people willing to drop $1000+ to get one and wear it around.
I think the real question is what kind of world will bring them into mainstream. With surveillance on the rise, I imagine the most powerful people would actually like everyone to have cameras on their faces.
I think the new meta glasses will be decently popular relative to the rest of the MR market, but will ultimately be held back by the tech industry’s insistence on AI. I don’t think any new technology will become mainstream so long as AI is a headline feature, it’s too inconsistent as a feature and wildly unprofitable as a technology. Once the AI bubble pops and the economic consequences are sorted out, that’s when I think smart glasses will get big.
So I worry if we’ll live in 1984-esque surveillance hell by then or if somehow things will turn around. Either way I think smart glasses are coming and they’ll be common soon.
a far superior experience to a smart phone
I don't have to wear my smartphone on my head, though. Smart glasses will always lose in that regard.
And I don’t have to hold my glasses in my hand, look away from what’s in front of me to see through them, or pull them out of my pocket. To me that’s way more convenient, but I already wear glasses; so I could understand how it could be annoying or intrusive to others.
Edit: Also, an eventual AR interface would open the door for all kinds of uses we could never get out of a phone.
no concern for digital privacy.
Huge difference between Digital and Physical privacy though.
Someone wearing these glasses can be legally recording inside your home by simply looking at your home if the curtains are open.
Someone wearing these glasses can legally record you and you children at the beach.
A bad actor nurse/doctor wearing these glasses can legally save photos of you naked.
These glasses need to be banned, pronto.
Your first two examples are just as easy and legal with a phone. Nobody watches all their windows all the time nor watches every other beach goer. The third example is already illegal and if a doctor or nurse is already committed to illegally recording patients, what’s stopping them from just hiding cameras in their rooms?
I’m not saying it’s good that people can unknowingly be recorded at any time, but it is already true before the glasses. There’s already cameras everywhere and hidden cameras are already easy to get your hands on. The glasses don’t enable anything new as far as cameras go, they’re actually just way more expensive than any basic hidden cameras you can already buy.
I think people will want the glasses for their ease of use and people will get used to there being cameras everywhere because they already are.
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