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!
Unless it can connect to my own server, no.
No, even if it were open source, I don’t want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.
I straight up think people might start making EMPs in response to these. Image your doctor has them, would you feel safe?
… like surveillance cameras and phones? These are quality bad, no?
Haven’t given too much thought to be fair. Taking video on the phone is much more obvious, while someone with camera glasses could make the excuse “I’m not recording!” and you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. For surveillance cameras, you could know where they are and evade, throw a rock, or drape something over them, whereas you’d have to go up and snatch the glasses off the wearer.
I also wouldn’t be against it if it were used legitimately to help with a disability, or for specific tasks like a HUD with vitals, etc when doing surgery. But for general use, I’m not comfortable.
No, the one is fixed position part of same building and the other does not collect data on other people around it.
Yet.
its possible. Its hard to say until you start using something. It would make it more like it if it was basically a screen and maybe camera and mic.
Maybe in 20 years when they’ll be decent and I won’t pay to be you beta tester. Also open source, repairability and privacy is a must
If they weren’t a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren’t owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.
Only of its running open source. Otherwise, probably not.
Oh awesome can’t wait to have my privacy invaded by every random yahoo dipshit tech bro fuckwad on the street with these bloody glasses. Love being recorded and logged for Zuckerberg’s data wank bank.
Won’t buy them, won’t interact with people who have them. Will cut off friendships over this, no problem.
No. They’ll probably find a way to put ads in your field of vision momentarily.
I would buy smart tech in the future but only once capitalism has disintegrated into a new world social order (i.e. the distant future) otherwise the motives of the tech company might be questionable and who knows what secret control crap they might add without your knowledge.
Hell nah
I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it’d 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company’s servers. I’ve gotten used to my android phone that doesn’t have google play services, and I’ll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I’d like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I’d be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.
Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won’t be getting smart glasses any time soon
I kinda feel like big tech regrets that we got away with PCs running all foss software. The existence of GNU/Linux saved us in a way, I think some still try to lock us behind Windows I guess but Linux options are not going anywhere and they keep growing stronger I believe. However when it came to smartphones they tried so hard to keep them locked and far from what a natural computer would offer (running anything as long as your CPU architecture supports it). While Android phones got some freedom in the past I believe they’re getting more closed and harder to tweak. Also I was there when iOS jailbreak peaked with all the crazy stuff (it was still hard to switch OS though). Fast forward to smart watches, now these are far more locked than phones and very limited in terms of freedom (even tho some run standars CPUs architectures). I think no way would big tech allow glasses to have freedom and they would make them close to what watches offer these days, maybe worse. I really believe that we should be able to run whatever the hell we want on hardware as long as it is technically possible.
Tl; dr: GNU/Linux saved the PC industry, corpos will not let that happen again with another industry.
NEVER
So here’s the deal. I can’t understand people. Between the ADHD and general hearing issues I would pay a lot to have the ability to have subtitles on people. I feel left out on a lot of conversations due to not being able to follow along.
I keep saying live personal translation and disability aids are the only legitimate use of this stuff
I agree, but the reality is more like ads plastering your vision 24/7
No
I want to be able to instantly snap a picture of what I am looking at when I am riding my bike.
