Anyone wearing those are absolutely being a perv and playing dumb about it. Apple will probably come out with those next, and push them just like they have air pods so that they'll have a camera to go with their always active mics! Fucking drives me nuts when people act like they're so technologically savvy by using siri to call people on the phone.

The thing is, I'd love glasses with a private display. Imagine walking around a strange city with maps displayed in your vision, or giving a talk and having your notes in your view. Specs with screens! But why would I also want a camera? If I wanted to photograph something I can use my phone - perhaps using my SpecScreen as a viewfinder, sure, but the camera can happily live in my phone still. Basically, I'm worried the perverts are going to ruin glasses with HUDs for the rest of us. There must be dozens of us non-perverts, surely?

Do you truly believe that those who have sold you your mechanical eyes have resisted the temptation to peek through them? Cameras are all around us, even within us! Your joys, your worries, your life... for them it is all mere spectacle. - Garry the Prophet

I was calling them "stalker" glasses. Everything facebook (meta) does is about stalking humanity. Creepy, creepy weirdos.

Because that's what they are?

Glassholes. I remember.

I'd wear them if they didn't have a camera - the idea of a little screen and the music/phone call capabilities baked into something I have to wear every waking moment anyways actually sounds really nice. I'd probably turn off the display after the novelty wore off, but the audio alone is still worth it to me.

The prevalence of negative impacts is absolutely a reason to push back on these specific glasses.

Due to aphantasia and ADHD, I would love to be able to manually record and store locally what I am seeing in a wide variety of situations. That guy I talked to about the thing? What was his name and what did he look like? All I remember is he had curly hair and he had a common name. Being able to play back the introduction would let me refresh myself to keep up with people who remember a large number of names and faces in a short period of time. If I do something like work on my PC being able to record as I go without needing to set up the phone on a stand and hope I don't block it would be great.

Yeah, the negatives outweigh the positives and fuck meta for using what could be a great assistance device to collect everything they interact with instead of it being a locally stored thing that decent people could use.

article is already a decade too late. I’ve perceived them as pervert glasses for years!

Creeper peepers

Oh - I love this angle!!!

Spread the word bros! I'll only call them pervert glasses from now on

Don't call them that!

Slandering the innocent perverts of the world by association with Facebook isn't gonna make 'em quit marketin spookware to assholes who oughta know better. =U

Surveillance glasses.

(If "pervert" is too much in a discussion)

It was the first thing I thought of when I saw these glasses: 100% perverts are going to buy them.

Perverts and predators. I fully expect to hear about stalking and murder rates going up due to these-- and hopefully the makers will be sued out of fucking existence.

The one good use I’ve seen: member of my fam has been deaf since childhood and recently got glasses that transcribe conversations

Embarassing it was ever anything besides 'pervert glasses'

Well, yeah. You wouldn't allow someone to film at a swimming pool with their phone. Stealth cameras of any form are immediately far more suspicious.

The problem is that influencers are already way ahead of you. Lots of normalizing them for "content creation" when they want to film in public. And if they had a sponsorship in a different video? Coincidence.

You can wear them if you have a blind cane and the lenses are blacked out.

I think there’s real value as an accessibility device for something like this. But not from Meta.

I assume the engineers that build these products are perverts themselves. Who else would take a job building such a thing?

google was the first to make pervert glasses, did people not learn from this.

You know what sucks is I wear heavy framed Ray-Bans that have no camera. Now I could get lumped in w/ these chomo's... Fucking hell.

I guess its back to wire frames that can't handle any abuse...

You either get bought by Google as a start up, or live long enough to see yourself make all of Google's mistakes.

Reframing

Nice