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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah that's a good reason. How do you interact with them them though? Cause if it is hands or voice commands I don't think I see much benefit over having a phone mounted(things are already expensive and only getting more so).

If it is eye tracking for people who have issues interacting with a phone in other ways then, that would certainly be a huge leap forward for accessibility.

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