Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!
Great. Now I not only have to listen to other people in public talking on their phones but now talking to their glasses.
Any stupid mofo wearing them Zuck specs, meet this kid:
Why do you need glasses at all for a version with no camera? Can’t someone just wear earbuds in that case? Can’t someone’s regular bluetooth (or even tethered) earbuds just talk to the phone in their pocket to do everything?
A glasses with a display were always my dream. But with actually good controls, which it looks like the current iteration of pervert glasses actually have, it’s more than I ever dreamed for. You can display a minimap there, you can do some media control, display relevant info if you’re working on something, speaker’s notes when you do the presentation, the possibilities are numerous.
If there will be a distinct version without a camera I might actually consider overcoming my hate for Zuck’s bullshit (but more probably I’ll wait for zuckless version)I know it is your dream. But, doing a presentation while wearing sunglasses indoor doesn’t exactly transmit humanity, connection nor empathy. I would nope out of that presentation. Everything else is just an app. They are all non-critical things, they don’t require a HUD.
Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.
They don’t have to be sunglasses. Google glasses worked how many years ago.
They are all non-critical things
I mean, nothing strictly speaking is. But having hands-free screen actually opens some nice possibilities that holding a phone in your hand doesn’t afford.
Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.
Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.
To be a creepy perv. It was obvious since first revealed.
Also, Google glasses were just as creepy. Thy worked in the technical sense. Complete social and market failure though.
Also, Google glasses were just as creepy.
I mean yeah, but again, remove a camera and it’s actually a very useful product for a very specific purpose.
Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.
To make things worse.
I will say the point, it is an extension of your phone essentially. A very expensive, pointless, and ultimately creepy extension.
It’s like buying a smart watch, so you can ask it stuff, and not use anything else it can do. When your phone can probably still listen to you perfectly fine.
“Oh, don’t worry, these are actually the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™. They’re actually pretty innovative! I can go off-grid while still feeling so connected to all my feeds! Instead of recording to the cloud, I can use my new Freedoms©®™ to record moments directly to my brain using the new Facebook BAM technology. Yup, these babies don’t have a single semiconductor, but Zuck still managed to somehow run Brain Access Memory on them! The best part is how cheap they are! Nearly half the price, and you get a 10% discount on their AI subscription since these glasses don’t actually transfer any data. But that subscription lets the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™ assist me with directly accessing memories whether the glasses were present or not! It’s a pretty sweet deal, if you really think about it.”
People this fucking stupid shouldn’t have this much wealth and power
So… Glasses?
No. Glasses with always-on microphones, internet connectivity and logging everything anyone is doing themselves + the people around them. So not much better than the current ones.
Not unless your normal glasses do all this: “The camera-free glasses, code-named Luna, will still feature an array of six microphones to allow users to speak to the company’s AI chatbot and its recently-released AI assistant, called Muse. They’ll presumably pick up audio from users’ environments as well, where bystanders may not be aware of the eavesdropping.”
What I love about the internet sometimes is that the literal thought that I had - the literal comment, character for character - I wanted to make is already here.
This is still surveillance, just with audio instead of video.
But this actually creates a new problem: wearers of pervert glasses have plausible deniability. “Are you filming me?” “Who, me? Oh no, these ones don’t have cameras. Trust me”.
I think the new problem is exactly what they want to achieve.
I think so too.
No camera but it will six microphones.
And a camera!
Not a camera! A ‘digital imaging device’. With AI!. Thats constantly connected! And it all happens on device! Encrypted for your safety! Trust us bro!
Lidar glasses incoming
So your telling me I can go into a mirror maze and not be so nervous? Psh, finally found a use case. Wait how much are they?.. nevermind
So how about those state all-party-consent wiretap laws?
To be fair, this is not that different from the always-on, always-listening phones in everyone’s hands now.
It’s drastically different, wtf are you on about
In what way?
Are we assuming that phones aren’t listening all the time and glasses are?
Or that you can theoretically turn off always listening on phones but not on glasses?
Or that the phones are Apple / Google / Samsung, etc, but the glasses are Meta, so that’s different?
Or just that phones are already out of the barn, and one listening device per person is bad enough, but glasses we will have a chance to regulate with common sense data privacy laws?
Other folks covered it better than I can
Where? Are you talking about the camera version or the mic-only version?
One other argument i can think of is that with phones, it is suspected that they are passing what they listen to up to cloud servers for ads and stuff, but hard to confirm.
With the glasses they will definitely be sending data from microphone to Meta’s servers.
I mean, your phone isn’t constantly pointing his cameras at other people’s face and using meta’s database to gather information on the people you’re filming, that’s already a big difference.
Then you have different options to deGAFAM your phones. I personalky use graphene but I get most people are not there yet.
Don’t get me wrong, phones are obviously the most common spying devices out there, but jt’s definitely not to the level of these dystopian glasses.
That is a good point about having graphene as an option on some phones.
I was talking about the version of the glasses that will be sold without cameras.
