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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product."

That's men acting as they intended using a product as intended. There is no plot twist here.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    I remember this media cycle from the GoogleGlass era. And while the initial reporting was "People are viciously attacking anyone seen wearing them!", the business post-mortem was more that nobody was buying them to begin with.

    These glasses are oversized, heavy, ugly, and pretty much useless for anyone who isn't a pervert. The sticker price for this largely pointless gadget can go north of $800 retail. That's a high-end PC or fully loaded PS5 for a small camera that sits on your face and some lenses that give you a Virtual Boy tier of AR overlay.

    Who has time for this shit? There's no use-case.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Excuse me but whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”? You’re living in the past…

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”?

    👉👈 Maybe five years ago. Even then, I'll admit "high end" is generous.

    $800 is still a ton of money for an ugly pair of glasses with a gimmick nobody has implemented.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I can think of several use-cases: subtitles for the hearing impaired, translation, AR overlays for technical work, etc. Not saying they're a good value, but it seems weird to say there's no use-case.

    And I genuinely don't understand the pervert angle. What do they do for perverts that can't be done with much cheaper button/pen cameras, or even a phone in your breast pocket?

    Like sure, there are problems with surveillance and ads and other nasty tech bro shit, that much is obvious. But I sincerely do not understand why they're being called pervert glasses. Am I missing something?

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