TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.
I can’t wait for open source smart glasses
Even if it’s open source, it’s still just a camera for creeps. An open source torment nexus is still a torment nexus.
It’s a camera, like the millions of cameras that are around us every day.
If you’re a creep then it’s a camera for creeps. If you’re not, then there are plenty of legitimate uses providing that all video is kept locally and not uploaded to Meta/Amazon/Google’s servers.
Technology is not neutral. The cameras you’re talking about all make it pretty obvious when you’re filming. Cameras designed to blend in and not be obvious and creepy.
As someone with prosopagnosia (face blindness) these types of glasses would be an incredible assistive technology for myself and others like me, but even I’m aware of the significant privacy concerns and don’t feel the benefit outweighs the societal risks.