I hate those “pervert glasses” so much. You don’t need to have a camera in your glasses. Just wear normal glasses.
And still, I don’t get their use case unless it’s to be deliberately sneaky. Even their own ads are just “if you’re a pathetic idiot with no friends or ability to plan ahead even a little bit, these are the glasses for you!”
At a fancy restaurant by yourself and don’t know how the utensils work?
Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?
Can’t speak the local language at a resort full of anglophones and the attendant for some reason only speaks that language?
Or maybe you’re at a concert by yourself and really need to film something(you don’t, everyone else should be putting their fucking phones away, too).
Like LLMs, they’re a sad technology for sad, stupid people.
Need a hotel and just wanna blindly trust your glasses?
What are your other options? Blindly trust google? Blindly trust random locals? Blindly trust every hotel receptionist trying to convince you to stay at their hotel?
At some point you have to trust something.
You can at least look at options presented to you. Even Google Maps will let you manually sift through businesses. Letting your fucking sunglasses tell you “go here” is immensely different, dude.
You can ask the sunglasses for other options too
Get this, I can also look it up on the already insanely powerful phone in my pocket, see the options with my own eyes, look at the map so I know where I’m going, and make my decisions on my own because I’m not an adult baby who needs his sunnies to tell him what to do.
But what if your hands are occupied, carrying shopping bags or eating a sandwich on the go? These things have legitimate use
Put your shopping bags down? Plan ahead?
I swear to god, you people are so intensely lazy. It is not in any way worth it, the damage these glasses for the mentally impotent are currently causing isn’t worth it and it will never be worth it. You’re acting like if I sent you back to 2002 you’d fucking die in three-to-five business days.
So pathetic.
Nobody is saying its necessary for survival. Yes, we can go back to the 1800s and still survive. That doesn’t mean computers are bad. Whether or not it’s “worth it” remains to be seen, since these things were only just released
Reminds me of Google glass or whatever it was called. It’s not that people aren’t ready, it’s just a bad idea
Look, I actually want smart glasses, but there is absolutely no reason for there to be cameras in them.
Just give me a HUD so I can follow transit directions or something. I’m not trying to take creepshots.
What really frustrates me is that governments and big business have normalized surveillance everywhere, and now big business is basically selling wearable spyware, and this is all quite egregious.
But, one of the biggest ways to combat this is with “sousveillance”, or the surveillance of oneself. This has proven to be quite effective for motorists who own dashcams, and could be useful other places as well. But AI-peddling billionaires have ruined the reputation of that kind of thing entirely to the point where even open source variants of this tech will be rejected by the public.
So businesses, the government, and the police have the right, and in many cases the obligation to record your every move in public, but you aren’t allowed to record your own surroundings in return.
You can do a lot of cool stuff with cameras. AR-tracking and computer vision are the main ones that come to mind. I wouldn’t trust the glasses from Meta to keep this data safe though.
