No.
What if you could have personalized ads fed directly into your visual field at all times?
You know that’s where this is going.
The only smart glasses I will ever need are the sunglasses from John Carpenter‘s They Live.
I’m sure the tech is good but what does it do? I’m honestly confused of where they want this to go.
AR glasses could be great - I’ve had a couple dev pairs and there’s real potential to the tech. But they all suffered from a total lack of developer support, which was a real problem given they were banking on outside devs to fill out their app stores. The snap glasses here seem like they’re going to have the same problems as the apple vision and microsoft’s hololens (which was SO GOOD why the FUCK did they never release it?? Fucking M$…): the initial userbase will be tiny due to the price, thus there’s going to be few hobby devs who can afford to buy in and there will be no incentive for the professional devs to invest in developing such a tiny potential market that relies entirely on a single proprietary piece of hardware.
What we need is for there to be enough standardization that we can port apps between hardware so all your time invested in development can’t be tossed into the bin of history at the whim of Snapchat & it’s shareholders.
Spies on you
They are the smallest glasses that do true AR where things are mapped and placed overlaid in the world. Other glasses that are more glasses sized don’t do this yet.
They have mics, cameras and speakers in them with an AI that interjects on its own and spies on all your apps.
I wasn’t going to buy them before I read the article, but I’m certainly not interested now.
I like the idea of AR as an aid for disabilities or in certain practical applications in science and industry but they aren’t marketing this to warehouses, nuclear plants, or automotive assemblers. They’re marketing it to influencers and randos. No thanks.
Bunch of Glassholes.
no
–everyone
You mean if i buy your glasses i can look like the person in the picture?
Have they seen how dumb they look? Why would anyone want to pay so much for such ugly wearables?
