And do you think they will be mass adopted to replace smartphones once the technology becomes good enough or will the general public revolt against them like they did with google glasses? Meta just released a new pair of smart glasses which lets you have a discreet POV camera ready to film at all times, discreetly listen to music, view a projected screen just by looking to the side which is not observable to others, talk to an always present AI for any thoughts or questions that pop up during the day, discreetly send text messages by drawing letters on your leg, have instant translation for speech or text that pops up in your view, etc…
If it was just a screen, general purpose processor, and customisable OS then I’d have one already.
I don’t feel like paying a monthly subscription fee for a product to lie to me every time I ask a question, and relay everything I do back to a company who will sell my personal data to anyone.
I love my Pebble watch and enjoy playing with new tech. If a company like Pebble can make one without the spyware, bloatware, and AI, then I’ll probably get one.
The same as when Google tried it.
Privacy Invasion turned up to 11.
I would absolutely love to try them, just would prefer open source to anything being offered rn.
I don’t trust any of the companies coming out with these to not be tapping in and accessing any of the devices data.
as with home assistants, “AI" and many other examples, they seem like cool tech that could be useful but it’s unfortunatelly ruined by the companies peddling them… hard pass for me
If you wear smart glasses and try to approach me, I’m ignoring you and walking away. I don’t care who you are, I don’t talk to cyborgs.
If it becomes a huge thing this might age poorly.
I remember when wireless earbuds first came out. The sentiment was the same “You’ll never see me with those because I’ll look like a crazy person talking to themselves.” Now it’s completely normal and society accepts it.
I still think people look mental lol
Yeah when I cross someone in the street using them at first they still look to me like they’re off their meds and talking to sky daddy out loud. It goes faster than before for me to realize “they must have an earbud in” but that’s still my first reaction.
I assume you’re recording me and I don’t want to talk to anyone who has them.
It legit seems like it could have legs.
Did Meta/Facebook say what the battery life they managed is?
More shit for people to waste their money on.
Just imagine the ad-serving possibilities…
They’re nothing but just a new way for companies to track us more intensely 🤣
Privacy nightmare
In theory? Could be cool in some cases I guess. But I don’t really want more tech, nor do I want another device I need to charge. In practice? I don’t trust Meta, or any of these large tech corporations, to not turn this into a privacy and security nightmare. Also a waste of electricity - these AI models will need to analyze a lot of audio and video to be useful.
I think if they ever get good enough that a lot of people are wearing them, a lot of companies will put rules in place to keep employees from wearing them at work.
Restaurants, hotels, and other service industries don’t want their employees posting video of insane customers to their personal TikTok profiles. Any company with any sort of technical or financial or medical data won’t want employees to be able to take photos or video secretly.
I could see companies even attempting to ban them for customers. Like banks, airports, stadiums or other areas where large crowds of soft targets would gather. Schools to protect the security and privacy of children. It’s one thing to go in a record with a phone; that is visible and draws attention. Being able to record completely in secret will be unappetizing to many (except when the government does it, of course, no one must question our police).
My only devil’s advocate to this is that phone cameras are already very prevalent and this is only a minor issue in society atm. Fuck camera glasses, though.
EU privacy laws would have to be rewritten for smart glasses to be usable in public. Let’s not do that.
Can‘t wait for a new US trade deal to soften that up.
Let meta write the laws and get only 60% tariffs. Von der Leyen will be enthusiastic about it.
I don’t like von der Leyen but she’s been more steadfast against Donnie than I’d expected. Not in everything and not as much as she should but I don’t see her just caving to absolutely everything.
They need to be smashed to bits… every single one of them.
