A feature in Meta's glasses which boosts the voice of people will be capped at three hours for free use.
    • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
      9 days

      I was about to type pretty much the exact same thing, but I figured it would already be here for me to upvote :)

      • Stormy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        9 days

        I wasn’t paying attention when Facebook began ruining technology with bad business decisions but it’s getting old.

        I have an oculus VR that’s basically useless now that meta owns the company. They decided to stop updating it, so my 450 dollar bought brand new hoped it would last for life is a paper weight.

        Pay wall for already way too expensive and kind of pointless glasses? Like what. Is that how they’re making money now?

  • CTDummy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9 days

    I was always a fan of Ray Ban and got their glasses/sunglasses. Guess I need to look elsewhere since this god awful partnership.

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 days

      Personally i avoid visible branding, and at that point you can just go with whatever frame you like. Investing in high quality lenses is much better spent money in my experience, lightweight+deglared+extra thin lenses make a world of difference for comfortable wearing over longer time for me.

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
        9 days

        Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.

    • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      9 days

      I used to like Ray Bans, too. Then Luxotica bought them and they’ve never got any on my money since. I buy exclusively from Costco because they only sell non-Luxotica brand glasses for significantly cheaper.

      Prescription sunglasses look identical to aviators, at a fraction of the price.

      • eighty@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9 days

        did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued

        • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
          8 days

          Sam’s does the same and you don’t need a membership to use the eye center for either.

      • mmmac@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8 days

        Would be great of Costco had their own brand of smart glasses

        • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
          8 days

          Why? Smart glasses are stupid and no one should be buying them. They are a scam and another form of constant surveillance and recording. Only now with more accurate face recognition. All hail the future police state.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9 days

      Might I suggest Persol?

      Sadly, they are expensive, but they look good and have great quallity in my experience.

      As for glasses, five years ago, I got my first Lindberg glasses, and I am never going back to other brands.

      I am currently on my third pair of black Lindberg Aaron and my current sunnies are a pair of gunmetal Persol PO1027S with custom brown lenses.

      I have all of my pervious Lindberg frames and will start reusing them next time, as for the Persol, I lost my earlier pair of an earlier model of Persol sunglasses, but I plan on getting new models or a new pair of the same model to have some spares or variation.

      • CTDummy@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8 days

        Cheers for the comprehensive recommendations, I’ll check them out!

  • benjirenji@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9 days

    Good headline. Didn’t call them “owners”. Because this doesn’t happen to something you own.

    Article’s first sentence already fails though.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 days

    This bait-and-switch bullshit has gone way too far and I hope the few dozen socialists that get elected this fall really wreck this shit for the billionaires and force regulation.

  • grumpy_cat@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    8 days

    Jeeezus. Who uses these products? They are cumbersome to begin with, and so much worse with enshittification

    • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8 days

      So far as i can tell, people who make PoV content, everything from YouTube shop vendors to porn

      • 123@programming.devEnglish
        8 days

        They seemed reasonable for people that like fishing and the like (ignoring the huge privacy issues).

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
      English
      8 days

      I am kind of into the idea of having a little screen on the peripheral of my glasses for a heads up display as an interface with my phone. Or even as a full screen mirror for my phone to be able to browse lemmy or watch video while still keeping an eye on my surrounding. I really can’t imagine why they decided they also needed to have it record everyone secretly.

      • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        8 days

        The google glass design was pretty cool, sans camera. Iirc people were modifying them I think? Wonder how hard it would be to remove the camera. Probably soldered directly to the board. You could always try to make your own with some form of transparent screen

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8 days

    Usually one would wait til their product take over the market before enshitifying it. For this one, they don’t even have a feasible market. Who am I to judge tho.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    8 days

    Oh you thought we’d only demand hundreds of bucks for this trash? naw, now you need to pay a subscription fee. Now pay up loser.