Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
I think it’s only a matter of time before these things are ubiquitous. Once they find their “killer app”, whatever it is, people will make excuses for any failings. We’ll fall back to, “everyone is doing it, and privacy has been dead for a long time, that’s nothing new.” In other words, the same excuses we’ve always used to justify whatever terrible thing it is we want to do.
The people who continue to reject them and refuse to wear them will be marginalized and laughed at. I suppose by the time this happens, “Gen Z” will be the new “boomer”?
Strong disagree. People fucking hate wearing tech on their faces for any extended period of time. People will push back on tech if it doesn’t actually offer any benefit to users and this doesn’t do anything better than what we already have.
Any killer app idea could be done better and faster and reach way more people if you just build it on a phone with your existing phone camera.
Plus there’s a bunch of people who actually have to wear glasses every day aren’t going to want to have pay the premium to get already expensive prescription lenses for what amounts to a novelty spy cam for Zuck.
This is like the fifth time this tech has been a thing, if HoloLens, Google Glass, and Vision Pro couldn’t find a niche this thing definitely won’t. I can remember when Sony had ones that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the display software and those were going to be on the head of every engine mechanic before the end of the 90s…
What I really want is a camera in my glasses that’s always loop recording like a dashcam so when my cat does something spontaneously cute I can clip that.
Of course, that’s probably impossible with current battery technology, and I’d want the app to be open source so I knew my glasses weren’t sending the footage to anyone else’s servers.
I also see a huge use to having a HUD in my glasses between navigation, reading chat during a livestream, watching videos while doing chores, but of course I won’t adapt that either unless an open source version becomes available.
I’m already wearing glasses on my face, might as well make them useful. I think I’d be willing to spend upwards of 1500USD on these frames if they did everything I mentioned at the bare minimum.
Tl;dr: I definitely want this product and see uses for it, but it also just isn’t there yet, let alone being made by any companies I’d buy from.
I definitely used to want stuff like that especially as somebody who also wears glasses anyway, so I get where you are coming from. But 20+ years of dealing with the Microsofts and Googles of the world have made me very cynical about such things and I am no longer certain that even open source it could be done in a way that protects privacy.
Yup. I remember when cell phones first started creeping into life.
People used to get side-eye for interrupting in-person shit for taking a phone call - for example, when some asshole would get a call and start yammering away in a restaurant. At least among some people; lots of people will happily pick their nose in public and so on and so those people never even gave any kind of social niceties any thought, of course.
Same thing for when bluetooth headsets started coming on the scene. I realized things were fucked when some asshat wheeled up next to me at a urinal, apparently talking to himself, until I realize he’s yammering away on his headset while taking a piss.
And now for the past several years, yeah, some people get butthurt about “boomers” calling them if they are Gen X or younger or whatever, but still…it’s hard having a full conversation this day, involving eye contact with normal functioning adults without some interruptions while they start fiddling with their phone again to scroll endlessly or text someone who is not even present over some meaningless shit.
So yeah, I agree with you - the minute this has even a barely-passable use and hits some inflection point on price we are going to see this shit everywhere.
I think it’s only a matter of time before these things are ubiquitous. Once they find their “killer app”, whatever it is, people will make excuses for any failings. We’ll fall back to, “everyone is doing it, and privacy has been dead for a long time, that’s nothing new.” In other words, the same excuses we’ve always used to justify whatever terrible thing it is we want to do.
The people who continue to reject them and refuse to wear them will be marginalized and laughed at. I suppose by the time this happens, “Gen Z” will be the new “boomer”?
MMW.
Strong disagree. People fucking hate wearing tech on their faces for any extended period of time. People will push back on tech if it doesn’t actually offer any benefit to users and this doesn’t do anything better than what we already have.
Any killer app idea could be done better and faster and reach way more people if you just build it on a phone with your existing phone camera.
Plus there’s a bunch of people who actually have to wear glasses every day aren’t going to want to have pay the premium to get already expensive prescription lenses for what amounts to a novelty spy cam for Zuck.
This is like the fifth time this tech has been a thing, if HoloLens, Google Glass, and Vision Pro couldn’t find a niche this thing definitely won’t. I can remember when Sony had ones that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the display software and those were going to be on the head of every engine mechanic before the end of the 90s…
What I really want is a camera in my glasses that’s always loop recording like a dashcam so when my cat does something spontaneously cute I can clip that.
Of course, that’s probably impossible with current battery technology, and I’d want the app to be open source so I knew my glasses weren’t sending the footage to anyone else’s servers.
I also see a huge use to having a HUD in my glasses between navigation, reading chat during a livestream, watching videos while doing chores, but of course I won’t adapt that either unless an open source version becomes available.
I’m already wearing glasses on my face, might as well make them useful. I think I’d be willing to spend upwards of 1500USD on these frames if they did everything I mentioned at the bare minimum.
Tl;dr: I definitely want this product and see uses for it, but it also just isn’t there yet, let alone being made by any companies I’d buy from.
I definitely used to want stuff like that especially as somebody who also wears glasses anyway, so I get where you are coming from. But 20+ years of dealing with the Microsofts and Googles of the world have made me very cynical about such things and I am no longer certain that even open source it could be done in a way that protects privacy.
I actually see these quite often in the wild.
Yup. I remember when cell phones first started creeping into life.
People used to get side-eye for interrupting in-person shit for taking a phone call - for example, when some asshole would get a call and start yammering away in a restaurant. At least among some people; lots of people will happily pick their nose in public and so on and so those people never even gave any kind of social niceties any thought, of course.
Same thing for when bluetooth headsets started coming on the scene. I realized things were fucked when some asshat wheeled up next to me at a urinal, apparently talking to himself, until I realize he’s yammering away on his headset while taking a piss.
And now for the past several years, yeah, some people get butthurt about “boomers” calling them if they are Gen X or younger or whatever, but still…it’s hard having a full conversation this day, involving eye contact with normal functioning adults without some interruptions while they start fiddling with their phone again to scroll endlessly or text someone who is not even present over some meaningless shit.
So yeah, I agree with you - the minute this has even a barely-passable use and hits some inflection point on price we are going to see this shit everywhere.