Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.
For me, I don’t find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!
Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?
I gotta wear glasses anyways so it’d be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.
But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn’t interesting.
I’d rather strap my cell phone to my face.
No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don’t want to be recorded.
somebody tried to bring them to our psych ward and argue that they needed them because they were prescription (in fairness they were but bruh). it was a shitshow.
Maybe if I wore glasses already I would potentially consider one, if it had no camera and was open enough to let me do whatever I wanted on it.
But I don’t wear glasses so it would still be an extra thing I would need to carry with me and for that purpose I have a phone already.
Maybe a visor
I don’t think there is a future in my country.
The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don’t want it on my face.
So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don’t see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.
Depends which company makes them. Probably not
If the data it collects was only on my devices and I can customize the settings to collect what is ant when I want. But that will never happen. It can’t be a tool I purchase and use solely for my benefit, the person who owns it. Fuck these tech fascistsnjunkies, I hope they all fucking die of cancer.
Not from Meta for sure.
And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.
These are valid reasons that I’d consider getting one for myself. But big tech says fuck accessibility, let’s cram it full of bullshit instead. And that’s on top of the privacy concerns that they seem focused on shoving under the rug rather than making it obvious if someone’s using these.
Isn’t tech already creepy enough, how’s this going to make things better, I can see limited good uses cases as opposed to how it’s being used most of the time right now
Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.
When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.
See y’all in 2077
Nope. I can wait for the chip implant to broadcast ads in my sleep.
Looks like we just found our new head of marketing boys! Tells us more about ads in people’s sleep.
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I wouldn’t use anything from Meta, no exceptions.
