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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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[–] 123 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I love that big tech was so arrogant they just plum forgot or choose to ignore why those died then.

And then above it they still chose the one thing everyone was mad about, a camera. All they had to do was not put a camera in there but they couldn't resist.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think the product that speaks the most about the camera was the Snapchat Spectacles. Snapchat did everything they could to position it strictly as a fun, party-oriented camera that didn't try to hide what it was but leaned into the fun ways to use it.

    And they still died out after the initial hype. Which I think is most telling because, like, here's this product with the most positive take you could possibly have on "glasses with cameras" and people still didn't want it. So wth makes Google think the creepy no-fun version will catch on?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Eh, even the guy in the video mentions the distribution being a factor in the hype dying down. I think with a bigger distribution they could’ve worked better, the main issue with the Meta ones is that they’re basically made to record stuff inconspicuously and that’s freaking creepy.

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

    creeps are the #1 target demo for these devices

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

    I honestly don't think so. I think they're up there, but tech "enthusiasts" (read, tech bros and people who think random gadgets are cool) probably are. They're happy to waste their money and give money to meta. Creeps are definitely number 2 or 3 though.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, I'd consider myself a bit of a tech enthusiast but I'd never buy a closed source product like smart glasses. I have looked a little into Mentra glasses as it's open source and it looks like you might be able to stand up your own backend.

    It would in no way be an everyday wear for me though. I'd probably only ever wear it for outdoor activities. But honestly a GoPro or equivalent with a harness would probably be a better option for that.

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

    They used to say that porn was the real driver of technology for home video.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Not for the first time. Metaverse failed for all the same reasons that Second Life did: it's a solution to a problem that most people don't have. Except Second Life - which still exists and supposedly is far more active than during its heyday - only cost the merest fraction compared to the Metaverse.

    As for the Spybans, there were a couple of short films released around 2010 that predicted the privacy issues linking AR with realtime social networking would bring. So it's not a new idea. Unfortunately, both films were taken down soon after because they were deemed too disturbing.

    And yet, here we are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The trouble is, half the cool shit that AR can do requires some sort of optical sensor to pull off. If you want it to be anything more than just a smaller cell phone closer to your eye.

    And if course they were compelled to hook it up to their mass surveillance network...

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