It's really not the same. One of the biggest issues with Glassholes was that it wasn't clear they were wearing something unusual at first sight, especially from certain angles. That you didn't know you were being recorded didn't help, and I'm guessing that the Quest 3 isn't secretive about that like Google Glass. But even if it is, I think everyone is going to do their best to avoid the guy walking around with that thing strapped to their head.

Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society.

-- Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson in 1992.

On the one hand I'd love a HUD which could, for example, remind me of the names of people I'd met before, or notes like 'remember to talk to fred about his shrubbery'. Or tell me which shops I'm looking at are open, or give me directions to my destination... or random shit like the name of the plant I'm currently looking at. You can do some of this with a phone but in-vision is so much more useful IMO.

OTOH the people capable of creating such technology are meta, google.. and I don't trust them one bit.

Meanwhile I still feel weird taking photos of inanimate objects in public spaces in case someone thinks I'm creeping on them.

Nothing awkward at all about just randomly holding your arm out to watch TV while walking around the world. Sounds like a very relaxing experince having everyone stare at you while in an elevator.

And if someone doesn't want to be recorded, they have to explain "Don't worry, it's just Facebook that's watching."

Legit gross behavior.

People being recorded by cameras 24/7 when in public: How dare these glassholes record me!

Somehow I don't think the Quest 3 is going to be a problem. The battery only lasts a couple hours, and you look dumb as hell wearing it in public. Unless the point is to look dumb as hell in public, then mission accomplished.

It’s a known fact when wearing a mask people are able to experience less social anxiety and worry about how they’re perceived. I wouldn’t be surprised if wearing a big headset on your face has a similar effect for people’s social behaviour.

I like how they are called glassholes. It sounds like another word I like.

Oooh nice! A surveillance device that also functions as a gateway to endless ads AND a "please bully me!" sign.

I reckon a lotta these pricks are gonna get tripped and smash their expensive spywear and I ain't crying about that.

Yeah just saw an ad for the Ray-Ban surveillance Wayfarer glasses. Ray-Ban has been dead to me ever since it was sold to Luxotica (the near-monopoly that explains why $40 glasses cost $180). It's kind of perfect now to see overpriced-for-no-good-reason branding being zombied yet further

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Over the weekend, as buyers got their first uninterrupted stretches of time with the new Meta Quest 3 headset, some started posting videos of themselves interacting with the real world instead of playing games.

Sure, it’s cool to blast low-poly baddies breaking through your walls, but isn’t it more technically impressive that Meta’s new headset lets you cook a meal or sweep your floors or enjoy a fancy coffee on a beautiful day without ever taking off the machine?

And, in the video you already saw atop this post, XR and AI booster Cix Liv went nearly full Glasshole by walking straight into a San Francisco coffee shop and placing an order, without bothering to hide the cafe’s address.

But that was a decade ago, and I argued last year that our definition of privacy, our tolerance for public photography, and our resistance to wearable technology have all changed considerably since Google first introduced its headset.

Smartphone cameras everywhere is now the norm, and small businesses often benefit from an influencer plug; Ng was fine with me naming Fiddle Fig Cafe in this story.

Then again, if I saw someone walking into a cafe with a bulbous white object atop their face with multiple camera slits, I’d just automatically assume they were recording absolutely everything.

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Why wouldanyone want to do that?

Wonder how long it takes for the first Tesla driver to total his car this way…

This stuff is really cool and I really hope it becomes a normal for people to be wearing headsets out and about.

So many amazing things we could do with genuine AR devices on our heads all day.

I guess it’s time to invest in spraypaint …