The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 minute

    What’s the difference between these glasses and a dashcam? Both are around to protect your interests.

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3 hours

    Glasshole the term needs to make a significant comeback. Normalize shunning, put up signs on bathrooms and anywhere else you can with

    “‘Smart’ glasses forbidden. Fines applicable. Bluetooth detection active.” and perhaps "This means you Glasshole ! "

    whether such detection is active is moot, make the bastards as nervous as they should be. A (dummy) camera on the outside of the door should complete the illusion. Make them feel like perverts.

    Non consensual filming should be unacceptable, but that’s a whole other fight.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7 hours

    I want to like smart glasses. And wearable tech in general. Too bad it’s all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      32 minutes

      Too bad it’s all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain. as a fascist surveillance method.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      5 hours

      Same. I gave up on the tech future a long time ago.

    • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
      5 hours

      Wearables could thrive in an open environment. But meta is currently the only big player and I don’t think they have the will and corporate capability to open themselves up. They will play in their walled garden and that will cut down on creativity and innovation.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      I love wearables as well and I’m deeply bothered by apple having the best smart watch in terms of sensor quality. Almost all wearables are locked behind one app or an other, the whole scene kind of blows.

      • rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.frEnglish
        6 hours

        I have a Garmin watch and I can’t see any benefit for my usage from an Apple watch. Quick reminder that Garmin watches have 10/15 days battery life and decent privacy 😀.

        • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4 hours

          10 / 15 days! No way. I have owned multiple garmin watches over the years and none of them have ever lasted 10 days, even when brand new. Even if you don’t actually use them for recording activities I can’t see them ever lasting that long.

          My current watch is admittedly 4 years old at this point so I expect some degradation but I average 3 recorded activities a day and the battery will last 3 days at the absolute best and that is running it down to like 2%

          I like garmin hardware but struggle to believe anyone is getting 10 days or more from a single charge!

          • rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
            17 minutes

            Mine is a Venu 2, 3 years old, and it lasts 11 to 12 days. I record activities 3 times a week only though.

            • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4 hours

              Are you not recording any activities / using any GPS?

              Obviously everyone has different use cases and experiences so I don’t want to disregard other experiences it just seems so far out of reach for me compared to the experiences I have had across 5 or 6 different models of their watches over the years.

              I have mostly used different iterations of the forerunner range and a Vivosmart which was fucking trash IMO.

              • subignition@fedia.io
                1 hour

                I use it as a step counter and a sleep tracker every night (with plugin), don’t use any of the built-in activities though

        • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          Sensor quality for heartrate is really good on the apple watch. There are a few studies about it. Garmin is really solid from what I can see though and ya, amazing battery life.

          • rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
            15 minutes

            All I can say is that the heart sensor is good enough for my usage (running, cycling, sleep monitoring).

          • somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4 hours

            Do you have a heart issue? Because if not, its like having a thermometer, still know when you have a temperature, but real time tracking. Asking because my girlfriend does have a heart issue, and there is really no other reason for it to be “the best.”

  • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    I’m sure the people who have them love harvesting data for AI training since that’s what they are clearly for.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7 hours

    I remember back in the early 2000s, when MiniDV cameras got popular.

    They were all obviously a camera just based on the look, they had an obvious lens cap, and even a clear record light so that people could see that they were being recorded.

    It is insane that we have done away with all of that, and are actively camouflaging cameras in every day items.

    Smart glasses should be banned.

    • pingu@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
      5 hours

      What we need is regulation. These companies will not show ethical behaviour on their own.

      See e.g. right to repair, USB-C.

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5 hours

        Regulation with fines exceeding the profits made on the product.

        No more static fines, or fines that are anything less than 100% of the profits made on breaching the regulations.

        • pingu@piefed.europe.pubEnglish
          5 hours

          I believe the way EU enforces those regulations is through a supply chain sales ban. Banned products are just not sold here.

          Fines are for software products and behaviours which.

  • jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish
    5 hours

    I have the Oakley one, mostly of two reasons:

    1. the audio quality for music and podcasts during runs and bike rides is good, not as good as the Bose frames, but way better than everything else, if you want your ears free

    2. the video rivals an action cam. Great for pictures or short videos, for something like filming the kids on a ski run. Way safer than taking out a smartphone ( I do not like parents filming with a phone on the slopes, super dangerous)

    Now, if have it set up on an older phone and cut down everything. The meta ai app is horrible, their sloptok is even worse.

    Additionaly, you are only allowed to use what meta likes, so, for example, only Spotify, no Deezer, no tidal. Only Garmin, no polar, no suunto.

    I do not use the ai features, and I can see why people are weirded out by the cameras.

    But for the niche stuff, they are a cool alternative to a gopro

    • mpramann@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4 hours

      I’m not only weirded out by the AI features. I also just don’t want to appear in some random persons video. It does not matter if the camera is in a smartphone or a wearable. It is insane to me how many people do not respect the privacy of others in this regard.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    It seems like soon enough people will start recognizing the things, they’re pretty distinctive with the two little circles and heavy frames. I know I would spot them if they were right in front of me.

    So, how to NOT look like a perv, if you need to wear glasses, like I do? Wear thin frames, which is what I do now.

  • t_berium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    If I ever see anyone wearing one, I will hit them in the face. Hard. And step on this shit.

    Edit: Ridicule me all you want. This Stasi shit must not get a foothold anywhere. Truly dystopian times.