Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.
For me, I don’t find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!
No. I have no need for this piece of equipment. I don’t want to wear the internet on my face. We asked for hoverboards, holograms, and flying cars.
Unless it can connect to my own server, no.
No, even if it were open source, I don’t want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.
I straight up think people might start making EMPs in response to these. Image your doctor has them, would you feel safe?
… like surveillance cameras and phones? These are quality bad, no?
Haven’t given too much thought to be fair. Taking video on the phone is much more obvious, while someone with camera glasses could make the excuse “I’m not recording!” and you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. For surveillance cameras, you could know where they are and evade, throw a rock, or drape something over them, whereas you’d have to go up and snatch the glasses off the wearer.
I also wouldn’t be against it if it were used legitimately to help with a disability, or for specific tasks like a HUD with vitals, etc when doing surgery. But for general use, I’m not comfortable.
No, the one is fixed position part of some building and the other does not collect data on other people around it.
Yet.
its possible. Its hard to say until you start using something. It would make it more like it if it was basically a screen and maybe camera and mic.
Maybe in 20 years when they’ll be decent and I won’t pay to be you beta tester. Also open source, repairability and privacy is a must
There is literally no benefit this tech brings, that is worth the risk.
I’ll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.
I work a retail job where I’m staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I’m working.
But until there are more of an “open source” type Smart Glasses that aren’t supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I’ll join the rest of y’all on staying far away from them.
There’s open source but not video capable. The Brilliant Labs Halo glasses coming in November are more of an informational companion with a peripheral-view display rather than a field of view overlay. So it’s not what you’re looking for now, but maybe a generation or two later it’ll meet your needs.
That’s still really cool to hear though, definitely looking forward to see where that is in a few years.
I wonder if a 3d printable frame could be possible with the lenses and SOC produced separately. Maybe it could be paired with a phone to offload the work.
I think they’re pretty much all paired with a phone for a lot of the workload.
No, none of this. It doesn’t matter if there are “good guys” versions. It shouldn’t be a thing at all because it never goes the good way. They’ll be bought out by Google or apple, and add in ads and tracking software. Or they’ll get big and change core values. Remember when googles motto was like, don’t be evil, or something like that? It definitely isn’t that anymore. There is no scenario where this kind of tech doesn’t turn bad.
A spec that can be 3d printed and hand assembled by the user (with the exception of the lenses) could work well - hard to enshittify that.
Until it’s not. It’s just best to abandon this tech tree altogether.
An open source license could solve this. If they sell out, just fork it and pick up where they left off.
Do you own anything tech then? Not sure this mindset applies only to smart glasses.
Same for me. The technology is cool. Big tech corporations are not.
No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don’t want to be recorded.
somebody tried to bring them to our psych ward and argue that they needed them because they were prescription (in fairness they were but bruh). it was a shitshow.
It’ll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.
However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.
As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.
I wear glasses as anyways and I’d love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I’d probably need a device to control it somehow too.
However, I wouldn’t want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and “updates” I didn’t ask for.
I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.
However, I’m pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I’ll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.
You can buy various HMDs that essentially mount to your existing glasses (I bought and fiddled about with one during the lockdown) and attach to any computer that supports USB. I haven’t looked into whether there are any wireless options now, but you could satisfy at least some of your desires with that kind of thing.
Thank you, I wasn’t aware
Happy to have helped!
Fuck no
In concept, they’re the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they’ll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.
And on everybody else.
I wouldn’t use anything from Meta, no exceptions.
I would not wear one and would never trust anyone that would.
No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps
Just try this epidermal implant. You’ll love it. But, you’ll need the brain implant to activate it…
Tech isn’t fun anymore. Why do I want to act as a spy camera for big corporations
