Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.
For me, I don't find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!
Just in a dream scenario where they are
I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.
Made by Meta - hell no.
Made by someone else - possibly.
My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.
Wouldn't even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I've seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can't imagine I'd use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they'd make everyone around me, I'd be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.
I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.
Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky ... I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.
If I can put an Chromecast-enabled pico projector at my lens, then no.
I wouldn't use anything from Meta, no exceptions.
Fuck no. I don't need to record my life to share it with the world. Even if people would be interested in it, why do I need to be sharing so much of my life.
When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.
See y'all in 2077
Not from Meta for sure.
And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.
These are valid reasons that I'd consider getting one for myself. But big tech says fuck accessibility, let's cram it full of bullshit instead. And that's on top of the privacy concerns that they seem focused on shoving under the rug rather than making it obvious if someone's using these.
If my producer or I saw them on one's face, we'd rip them off and smash them unapologetically. We'd also call them out for potentially violating our privacy without realizing it.
No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don't want to be recorded.
somebody tried to bring them to our psych ward and argue that they needed them because they were prescription (in fairness they were but bruh). it was a shitshow.
Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.
Nope. I can wait for the chip implant to broadcast ads in my sleep.
Looks like we just found our new head of marketing boys! Tells us more about ads in people's sleep.
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I wear glasses as anyways and I'd love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I'd probably need a device to control it somehow too.
However, I wouldn't want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and "updates" I didn't ask for.
I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.
However, I'm pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I'll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.
You can buy various HMDs that essentially mount to your existing glasses (I bought and fiddled about with one during the lockdown) and attach to any computer that supports USB. I haven't looked into whether there are any wireless options now, but you could satisfy at least some of your desires with that kind of thing.
Thank you, I wasn't aware
Happy to have helped!
Remember Google Glass?
Same story here. Neat tech but no chance buddy
Isn’t tech already creepy enough, how’s this going to make things better, I can see limited good uses cases as opposed to how it’s being used most of the time right now
Not unless they had some sort of UI in the glass that you can focus on, and some sort of visual Augmented reality system.
If it's just a bullshit piece of plastic with a camera that speaks to you then why the fuck would i stick that on my face? Just make it a necklace or something there's no reason for it to be glasses.
I'll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.
I work a retail job where I'm staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I'm working.
But until there are more of an "open source" type Smart Glasses that aren't supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I'll join the rest of y'all on staying far away from them.
There’s open source but not video capable. The Brilliant Labs Halo glasses coming in November are more of an informational companion with a peripheral-view display rather than a field of view overlay. So it’s not what you’re looking for now, but maybe a generation or two later it’ll meet your needs.
It'll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.
However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.
As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.
If the data it collects was only on my devices and I can customize the settings to collect what is ant when I want. But that will never happen. It can't be a tool I purchase and use solely for my benefit, the person who owns it. Fuck these tech fascistsnjunkies, I hope they all fucking die of cancer.
Nothing smart technology promises over dumb technology is something I ever wanted in the first place.
I just want phones to be phones, TVs to be TVs, and glasses to be glasses.
I almost bought the even realties G1, but they seemed to lock you into their AI companion.
Though I think they opened it up after release, would still consider them if it can be only your self hosted AI
No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps
I wanted a wearable computer with a head-mounted display real bad until the justified backlash against Google Glass ruined it for everyone.
This is a category of device that cannot be allowed to be implemented as a surveillance-capitalist product, only as Open Hardware.
Even open source, it should not happen. Nobody should have a camera on them that isn't identifiable as recording them. Phones are bad enough but at least you know where the camera is pointing. It's why I keep my phone parallel with the ground in public. Cameras on glasses should not exist in any way, shape or form because you can't know if it's recording you or not. And honestly I want nothing to do with a cyberpunk future.
I mean, pandora's box has already been pried open with a crowbar and the lid thrown into a woodchipper. Hidden cameras have been accessible to the mass public for almost a decade at this point.
At this point having a model that could be assembled and controlled by the end user means that the recorded data is within their possession. It might be for naught tho, as passerby could have their Meta lenses recording without any knowledge of the consequences.
But hey, now you can expose your workplace abuse with video evidence in court! XD
Tech isn't fun anymore. Why do I want to act as a spy camera for big corporations
Every idiot wearing this dystopian Stasi shit needs to be punched in the face.
In concept, they're the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they'll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.
And on everybody else.
Fuck no
Depends which company makes them. Probably not
I would not wear one and would never trust anyone that would.
The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.
So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.
I'm mildly interested in the technology, but I sure as hell wouldn't go anywhere near Meta-branded anything. For starters, based on the demo, the product fucking sucks, but then there's also the privacy and fascism issues.
Absolutely fucking not. I have literally no interest in being more online. That sounds depressing.
i'd buy glasses that would scramble the vision of smart glasses
IR blaster glasses with a toggle switch could be pretty easy to make with today's tech.
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