Just be like the French and ban billboard advertising. No need for these stupid gadgets.
French cities are banning billboards - https://www.marketplace.org/story/2023/03/06/french-cities-are-banning-billboards
I’ll turn to spray paint and vandalism if we ever reach that kind of ad hellscape.
If you can superimpose a blocker over real-world ads, you can superimpose ads onto plain walls too
Super clever project, but goddamn does this need feel so dystopian.
I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.
If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play
If there’s a real world screen showing a real world ad to you, you’ve got to be really careful not to lean against the screen with a broken spark plug or some other sort of ceramic shard, because you could easily shatter the screen and make it really hard for you and other people to be advertised to 👉👈🥺
GoogleDuckDuckGo “Tactical Pen” 😏
Any AR or XR glasses that don’t sell your data to everyone who gives a shady glance? or can be modified not to?
Seems to me pointless, biggest one being, if this was developed in a working manner, and was used… advertisers would mix between going more subtle, or more obnoxious. Just like on the web.
IE subway stations could put say a code you need to get into the subway in the middle of an advertisement. IE the real life equivelant of “you must disable your adblocker to continue”.
