• zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2 hours

    “I saw all these comments about if you wear those glasses you’re basically a predator or a creep, and I was like, ‘Oh, maybe it’s not a good idea to have those,’” said Kujawa. "I didn’t really think that through all the way… there are a lot of times where it’s not appropriate to wear cameras on your face."

    Words to live by.

    CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains convinced that smart glasses will eventually replace the smartphone.

    Sure, Jan.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49 minutes

      CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains convinced that smart glasses will eventually replace the smartphone.

      Just a regular reminder that facebook has a massive child sex material trade problem, that they’ve actively done nothing to prevent, but they have called police on reporters reporting on it.

      So Zuckerberg wanting his creepnology on every face, in every bathroom, hospital, etc, while he gets a copy of every video, is very much in character

    • tristynalxander@mander.xyzEnglish
      2 hours

      CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains convinced that smart glasses will eventually replace the smartphone.

      If they didn’t have a camera, I think they’d stand a better chance. I think they should just be a screen that links to your phone and peripherals. Honestly the little wrist typing input seem pretty cool to me. If I could type with them onto like a low-res glass ink display it’d be fine. I’m not gonna wear a camera on my face nor am I going to wear some bulky nonsense, just no chance. If they could look like slim glasses and take wireless power from something on my neck or headphones, I think they’d be a viable peripheral input product.

      Zuckerberg wants wants to put the compute on your face, for some reason. Even turning the phone into a brick you interact with through the peripherals seems unrealistic since the glasses would need to have multicolor display without being bulky. Dude needs some people with basic sense to tell him no and guide him to something more realistic.

      • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1 hour

        If they didn’t have a camera they’d be pointless, there’s really no reason to have a screen on your face if it wasn’t to help AR the world.

        Which is why it’s going to need an extremely valid reason to use them aside from being a creeper.

        • tristynalxander@mander.xyzEnglish
          1 hour

          There’s a long history of pointless peripherals and people finding obscure use cases. I wouldn’t mind trying to write or code with them. I’m not sure if it’d work since writing these days usually involves a full office suite and coding invovles some sort of IDE… maybe texting? notes in class? Very basic games like Pong? a search function? Reading like a kindle?

          I can see some neat little things being appealing.

          • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            23 minutes

            There’s a YouTube guy that made his own and uses it as a teleprompter during his videos. Certainly a niche use case.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 minutes

    I’m all down for smart glasses, I just don’t want anything megacorp on them. If they are to have mics and cams, I want those for AR and voice commands, not to stream me taking to piss to creepy Zuck and his pervert friends.

  • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
    2 hours

    “A lot of men and their behaviors have ruined this product.”

    Ruined? They’re using it for it’s designed purpose…

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14 minutes

    only a matter of time until they come out with a chip that can record whatever your eyes see directly by intercepting their signals to the brain. Have fun with that one, descendents

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 hours

    Specifically identifying the “pervert glasses” as “pervert Meta Ray-bans” would kill these products even faster. Associating Ray-bans with perversion would surely be a deal breaker.

    • Canaconda@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 hours

      “Pedo glasses” has the least syllables. Doesn’t have to be accurate just has to make people feel disgusted at themselves for wearing them.

      Start posting “No Meta Sunglasses” signs around playgrounds, schools, and water parks.

      Trench Coats and unmarked vans are already synonymous with sexual predators. We got this.

      • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41 minutes

        Can we not dilute how horrific pedophilia is with overuse in an unrelated situation?

        • Nouvellalia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27 minutes

          Yeah, I don’t want “pedo” to become as diluted as “rape” is now please.

    • ramenshaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Oakley makes them now as well. Ray-ban and Oakley are owned by the same company.

      • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2 hours

        All sunglasses are owned by Luxottica

    • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 hours

      Well, actually deaf people would have a real use of this device, with the glasses giving them realtime visual clues of surrounding noise and voices, may be even realtime transcriptions?

      Smartglasses without a camera would be useful to them.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1 hour

        The glasses don’t have HUDs/screens. There are no real time visual clues.

        • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2 minutes

          Of course they have a display, what the hell do you think would be the point of them otherwise? Theyre still fucking dumb, but they’d be even more dumb if they were JUST cameras. Those have also already existed for ages. I remember seeing ‘spy camera glasses’ on Chinese reseller sites like dealextreme way back in like 2012.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Dont know the breakdown of deaf people, but some people are also helped by all these ear/head sets that use reverberations on the bone.

        The type of hearing loss would depict whether or not they can be used. (Basically if the internal ear still functions, reverb works, if outside and inside doesn’t work, it won’t help)

  • TryingToBeGood@reddthat.comEnglish
    1 hour

    I started seeing these a few years ago at my optician; all I could think was all the privacy issues they were going to cause.

  • anugeshtu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    I for sure will get downvoted for this. But the glasses are not the problem, it’s the potential misuse. There are actually lots of applications where augmented reality comes in handy, as for example heads up information related to instructions, or, for example, in a much earlier time, people with, e.g., autism, got a feedback with an emoji, what the mood of the other person was. Or, for example, reading sign language without having thousands of hours spent on that. There are so many useful applications and people are just censoring the technology like they would censor the way now it’s mandatory to check for ID’s. I really get the idea, that mass surveillance is bad. No discussion about that. But cameras can be used in a good way. The problematic thing is, that you don’t really can’t tell if somebody is recording you or just using it neatly. But that’s the same with smartphones. Everytime somebody is holding his/her smartphone up, doing something, I also think “is he/she recording me right now? Nah, it’s probably just used properly…”

    • Blonohibo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31 minutes

      Except they aren’t designed to be used that way or marketed that way. Just because they could be useful in certain niche scenarios doesn’t mean most of them are used that way. Also, sign language is too complex for accurate translation using cameras like this. It utilizes facial expressions and space to determine context and intention.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 hours

    As they should be. If I recognized anyone wearing them I would yell ‘pervert glasses on this guy’ to everyone in the vicinity.

  • EastofEdson@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 hours

    There is an Android app that looks for the Bluetooth signatures of these glasses and alerts if they are nearby. Hopefully something exists on iOS devices as well.

    Edit: The app is called Nearby Glasses and it is available on iOS and Android.