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DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses' (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I personally hate the fact that capatilists have fucked our trust so much we can't have augmented reality glasses. I was really looking forward to that.

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

    These camera lenses are nowhere near AR.

    MS HoloLens was the closest we got and it was targeted at businesses. Flopped badly. Died.

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

    If someone other than Microsoft managed it, it might have gone farther, honestly. Nobody kills a good idea as efficiently as Microsoft.

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

    MS usually does it before anyone else, releases a product, fails to market it, product dies to exec cutback, then three years later Apple does it and it's amazing.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Apples business models has always been about figuring out why something a competitor did flopped then fixing the flaw (either by improving the tech or just better marketing and management). The industry feeds apple as much as they steal from it. It's a slow grown company.

    Microsoft is basically "we were really aggressive back in the day, established a monopoly everybody hates, and cannot figure out how to compete with modern alternatives in a way that won't piss off investors".

    Apple is no saint, but they never lied about what they were doing. Microsoft, on the other hand, deserved everything that happened to them.

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

    We need an Open Source version of these glasses. It's the only solution that will work.

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

    Open source doesnt solve them having a camera and recording everything.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago

    No but at least the data isn't being immediately uploaded to Meta / Google / Apple or whatever for storage and processing.

    If they are Open Source it also opens the door for some kind of control device that a person could have that broadcasts a "Do Not Record" signal that could in theory prevent Open Source glasses from recording in your presence. That kind of thing will never happen with Commercial / For Profit glasses.

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