- ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish17 minutes
When you see someone with those take out your phone and take a closeup picture of them. See how they like it…
23 minutesI am distraught to learn that apparently smart glasses are not banned in the EU. Until now I assumed without checking that they obviously would be.
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.
- Eddbopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish54 minutes
What’s the difference between these glasses and a dashcam? Both are around to protect yourself.
- KatherinaReichelt@feddit.orgEnglish46 minutes
Take a look at all those dashcam subreddits and Youtubes and you will see that dashcams can also be problematic. There are so many videos showing random persons doing something on the street or people having medical issues. And there are also those creepy stalker sexual harassment accounts who are filming women in public with their cams
- RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zipEnglish5 hours
Dystopian stuff. The public should be protected from this stuff.
I want to like smart glasses. And wearable tech in general. Too bad it’s all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain.
When I learnt about the concept I was immediately in. Even just the option to remind me of people’s names would be life-changing, not to mention all the other information and reminders and whatnot not only at my fingertips but right into my eyeballs.
And then Google’s glasses came out and were a data privacy nightmare and that day I think I lost another bit of my childhood innocence.
- 1 hour
Too bad it’s all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited
for political gain.as a fascist surveillance method. - Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 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.
- 7 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 😀.
- Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 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.frFrançais1 hour
All I can say is that the heart sensor is good enough for my usage (running, cycling, sleep monitoring).
- somethingsnappy@lemmy.worldEnglish5 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.”
- 5 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!
- BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.caEnglish51 minutes
A solar Instinct can go for weeks. With gps tracking 3-5 hours a week.
- 26 minutes
Just had a look at this, interesting, although it is bolstering its battery life with solar power.
Do you have real world experience with it? Does it last as long as it claims? I have to charge mine every 2 - 3 days as it is right now.
- rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais1 hour
Mine is a Venu 2, 3 years old, and it lasts 11 to 12 days. I record activities 3 times a week only though.
- 31 minutes
Judging by all the replies it seems like the Venu watches have exceptionally good battery life in comparison to all the forerunner models I have had!
- 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.
- 2 hours
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
- 35 minutes
That makes more sense I guess as I know the GPS is a major battery drain. Maybe that model is also better with battery in general as I know for sure none I have ever owned would last that long just using it as you do. :)
- Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 hours
I use Gadgetbridge for my CMF Watch 3 Pro and I have only noticed minor issues.
- jagermo@feddit.orgEnglish6 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.
- tempest@lemmy.caEnglish5 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.zipEnglish8 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.pubEnglish6 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.zipEnglish6 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.pubEnglish6 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.orgEnglish6 hours
I have the Oakley one, mostly of two reasons:
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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
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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
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish13 minutes
I’m just waiting for the first Glasshole who goes to a children’s playground wearing these and gets investigated by police. Imagine someone judging everything you glance at.
No one would tolerate some guy at a park with a gopro.
- BigJohnnyHines@lemmy.caEnglish43 minutes
I think the issue isn’t so much you filming runs and rides as GoPros have done that forever, but you know some people will be walking around constantly with these in public, bathrooms, classrooms, and live streaming it to the world while doing antisocial bullshit for content.
- mpramann@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish5 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.
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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.
- brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish23 minutes
Glasses with high correction don’t look that great with thin frames IMO. Even when you get thinner lenses, there still quite thick on the edges.
Thin frames also have kind of an uncanny effect when the lenses warp the size of your eyes a lot. Better have a bulky, obvious thing instead.
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish8 hours
Yeah, I am more and more happy that I found my style in Lindberg frames, they are expensive, but damn they look and feel amazing.
- 6 hours
Accessibility aides are always exempt, obviously. That’s not what companies make them for though.
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.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish45 minutes
Lol at the replies to this comment. Seems like you hit a nerve.
- tgcoldrockn@lemmy.worldEnglish59 minutes
> This Stasi shit must not get a foothold anywhere.
Completely valid. Resistance architecture is eroding.
