And do you think they will be mass adopted to replace smartphones once the technology becomes good enough or will the general public revolt against them like they did with google glasses? Meta just released a new pair of smart glasses which lets you have a discreet POV camera ready to film at all times, discreetly listen to music, view a projected screen just by looking to the side which is not observable to others, talk to an always present AI for any thoughts or questions that pop up during the day, discreetly send text messages by drawing letters on your leg, have instant translation for speech or text that pops up in your view, etc…
I assume you’re recording me and I don’t want to talk to anyone who has them.
If you wear smart glasses and try to approach me, I’m ignoring you and walking away. I don’t care who you are, I don’t talk to the Borg.
More shit for people to waste their money on.
Just imagine the ad-serving possibilities…
They’re nothing but just a new way for companies to track us more intensely 🤣
In theory? Could be cool in some cases I guess. But I don’t really want more tech, nor do I want another device I need to charge. In practice? I don’t trust Meta, or any of these large tech corporations, to not turn this into a privacy and security nightmare. Also a waste of electricity - these AI models will need to analyze a lot of audio and video to be useful.
Privacy nightmare
I think if they ever get good enough that a lot of people are wearing them, a lot of companies will put rules in place to keep employees from wearing them at work.
Restaurants, hotels, and other service industries don’t want their employees posting video of insane customers to their personal TikTok profiles. Any company with any sort of technical or financial or medical data won’t want employees to be able to take photos or video secretly.
I could see companies even attempting to ban them for customers. Like banks, airports, stadiums or other areas where large crowds of soft targets would gather. Schools to protect the security and privacy of children. It’s one thing to go in a record with a phone; that is visible and draws attention. Being able to record completely in secret will be unappetizing to many (except when the government does it, of course, no one must question our police).
It would be great for my industry. I’m in the trades and sometimes worry on jobs that I could get put in situations where it’s a he said she said kind of thing. Having video of everything I’ve done would be handy. Also if someone happens to be a wanted felon and I could get some money from crime stoppers through facial recognition, that could be handy too.
I hope they come down in price to the point where you can get 'em for cheap on the used market in order to repurpose the optics and screens to make dumb hmd’s.
They need to be smashed to bits… every single one of them.
EU privacy laws would have to be rewritten for smart glasses to be usable in public. Let’s not do that.
Can‘t wait for a new US trade deal to soften that up.
Let meta write the laws and get only 60% tariffs. Von der Leyen will be enthusiastic about it.
I don’t like von der Leyen but she’s been more steadfast against Donnie than I’d expected. Not in everything and not as much as she should but I don’t see her just caving to absolutely everything.
I can really see the potential in them. Like, I keep envisioning glasses that analyze what is infront of you, help to magnify, help people with eye issues and plenty of other things.
But, as I’ve see what has been done with VR least with Facebook, is that I can see the technobro applying some dystopia level shit on there. Be prepared to see ads - that you can’t close.
I just want the screen built into the glasses. So I guess the ability to cast to them or mirror my phone screen would be enough. I don’t need the AI, camera, probably a lot of other features. I guess my use case my not be the same as everyone’s.
If we had decent privacy, they could be amazing. Imagine something like Facebook, the way it used to be advertised, that could identity your friends and give you some of the information they’ve chosen to share with you.
Instead of trying to frantically remember your friend’s new partner’s name, you get a subtle name bar above their head. Maybe you get a reminder about their birthday, or a life event they’ve shared.
Unfortunately though, we’re currently stuck with the shitty version that going to extract all the data it can, and sell it to whoever can afford it :(
If they addressed the privacy nightmares that they are likely to present… by not being directly connected to the internet, by using a local and contained personal AI instance, by never being able to film anything with them without it being clearly obvious to others… then I’d be excited for that kind of tech.
But we all know that it’ll turn out to be the dystopian, corporately-connected, data-leaking version of the tech that’ll spread everywhere. So, I’m actually not really looking forward to it.
