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!
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.
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.
I wouldn’t use anything from Meta, no exceptions.
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.
ALWAYS SMASH GARGOYLES
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.
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.
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.
“Lightspeed briefs, for men on the go!”
Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.
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 buddyNot 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.
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
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
