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…
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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).
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 :(
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.
Great for pervs. I thought we went through this bullshit with Google Glass and the Glassholes.
I think they’ll become mainstream eventually. It seems obvious to me that they’d be useful and eventually a far superior experience to a smart phone. If and when they start to gain steam, there will be a backlash of some degree that will likely die out because the vast majority of people have no concern for digital privacy. I think the google glass backlash was a result of them looking weird and the personalities of the people willing to drop $1000+ to get one and wear it around.
I think the real question is what kind of world will bring them into mainstream. With surveillance on the rise, I imagine the most powerful people would actually like everyone to have cameras on their faces.
I think the new meta glasses will be decently popular relative to the rest of the MR market, but will ultimately be held back by the tech industry’s insistence on AI. I don’t think any new technology will become mainstream so long as AI is a headline feature, it’s too inconsistent as a feature and wildly unprofitable as a technology. Once the AI bubble pops and the economic consequences are sorted out, that’s when I think smart glasses will get big.
So I worry if we’ll live in 1984-esque surveillance hell by then or if somehow things will turn around. Either way I think smart glasses are coming and they’ll be common soon.
no concern for digital privacy.
Huge difference between Digital and Physical privacy though.
Someone wearing these glasses can be legally recording inside your home by simply looking at your home if the curtains are open.
Someone wearing these glasses can legally record you and you children at the beach.
A bad actor nurse/doctor wearing these glasses can legally save photos of you naked.
These glasses need to be banned, pronto.
a far superior experience to a smart phone
I don’t have to wear my smartphone on my head, though. Smart glasses will always lose in that regard.
Wearable tech has been kicked around since the 70s.
I think it will eventually stick.
Soon man will sell another ads in their vision, while collecting the info on how best to manipulate them at the same time.
Nobody needs these glasses.
please make it fucking stop
If it was just a screen, general purpose processor, and customisable OS then I’d have one already.
I don’t feel like paying a monthly subscription fee for a product to lie to me every time I ask a question, and relay everything I do back to a company who will sell my personal data to anyone.
I love my Pebble watch and enjoy playing with new tech. If a company like Pebble can make one without the spyware, bloatware, and AI, then I’ll probably get one.
I’m holding out for the far less obtrusive Smart Contact Lenses powered by the eyes synaptic energy. It’s just a matter of time.
while they aren’t really out yet, I can already say I don’t want one unless they are significantly dumbed down, with 0 (zero) running costs (beside charging the battery, of course)
I am a wearer of (regular prescription) glasses. The closest I get to “smart” glasses is my XReal, which is not much more than fancy head mounted display. Which is exactly where I see the added value. The creepy concept of an always present AI, camera’s constantly online etc terrifies me. No one needs this. Plus, what do they expect, all people with clear vision to now start wearing this facebook commercial constantly? I truly hope this never leaves the gimmick-level it deserves and dies a quick and painful death.
I don’t think smart glasses are going to be completely standalone anytime soon. Chip technological progress has been relatively slow in the past years, and I think we’re plateauing a bit with how much you can physically shrink transistors. Maybe there will be a technological breakthrough that will allow much more powerful chips at much smaller sizes, but I feel that’s not gonna happen in any sort of near term. I think glasses are going to become companions for phones and that most processing will be done on phones. As for my thoughts on the glasses themselves, I don’t really know what I think about them. I would be much more comfortable if they were completely locally processed without touching the cloud, but even then it is a bit weird to constantly have cameras looking at you all the time.
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.
