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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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[–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Well, actually deaf people would have a real use of this device, with the glasses giving them realtime visual clues of surrounding noise and voices, may be even realtime transcriptions?

Smartglasses without a camera would be useful to them.

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

    The glasses don't have HUDs/screens. There are no real time visual clues.

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

    Of course they have a display, what the hell do you think would be the point of them otherwise? Theyre still fucking dumb, but they'd be even more dumb if they were JUST cameras. Those have also already existed for ages. I remember seeing 'spy camera glasses' on Chinese reseller sites like dealextreme way back in like 2012.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    No these don't have a display. You've obviously never seen these. Mostly they're a built-in speaker in the arms of the glasses and they have a camera that can record but you have to play it back on like your phone or something.

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

    They don't have a display.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    They literally do. it's pretty simple to just google it instead of being absurdly incorrect and then doubling down.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    Most models don't have any kind of display at all. The most recent model that isn't widely available anywhere yet has a tiny notification window.

    The vast majority of glasses out in the wild that people are using today do not have displays.

    That will change, but right now, if you see someone wearing these glasses, you can be close to certain it doesn't have a display.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Dont know the breakdown of deaf people, but some people are also helped by all these ear/head sets that use reverberations on the bone.

    The type of hearing loss would depict whether or not they can be used. (Basically if the internal ear still functions, reverb works, if outside and inside doesn't work, it won't help)

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