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Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by kstrauser »

cj wrote: post #12
ifwinterco wrote: post #6

Either Mark Zuckerberg is playing an elaborate practical joke on everyone, or this is further proof that the West Coast tech scene has become such a bubble people have lost all sense of how ordinary people think. There is just no way this was going to fly in 2026 given high and increasing negative sentiment globally towards tech, and I'm not sure what made them think otherwise

Meanwhile, Tesla drivers are driving around with a dozen cameras mounted on their vehicle pointing in every direction. Who would have thought that would be socially acceptable in 2026.

You can’t wear a Tesla into a bathroom or other private space.

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by scotty79 »

I'd love to have glasses that are interface for AI. Mics pointed down towards mouth from the bottom of the front glasses rim. Speakers near the ears. Cameras optional. Display optional, possibly as a simple projector that reflect the image from the concave glass surface of prescription glasses. Long term power and communication through thin cable to battery pack in a holster somewhere on the body to make the frames light and wearable all day.

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by otterley »

Symbiote wrote: post #7

I think a small speaker should announce, in the local language, "recording in progress" when these are used.

Apparently they already have a blinking white light to indicate that recording is in progress. https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/metas-ai-glasses-your-ques...

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by aj_hackman »

scotty79 wrote: post #32

I'd love to have glasses that are interface for AI. Mics pointed down towards mouth from the bottom of the front glasses rim. Speakers near the ears. Cameras optional. Display optional, possibly as a simple projector that reflect the image from the concave glass surface of prescription glasses. Long term power and communication through thin cable to battery pack in a holster somewhere on the body to make the frames l…

I'd hate to talk to you or be looked at by you.

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by marcuskane2 »

And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass.

Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media panic over them too - people could be discretely filming in bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. There were even a few high-profile salacious stories where people did use their phones to film inappropriately.

And then we collectively decided that having cameras with us was generally beneficial and rarely harmful, and people realized that creeps who wanted to hide hidden cameras could already do so, and we all kinda moved on with our lives.

I can't leave my house without being on a dozen Ring cameras, Flock cameras and probably a handful of satellites, along with devices tracking Bluetooth and WiFi IDs every time I enter a store or a cop car drives by or having my license plate scanned by passing tow trucks. Drawing the line at glasses seems pretty arbitrary.

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by otterley »

marcuskane2 wrote: post #35

And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media panic over them too - people could be discretely filming in bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. There were even a few high-profile salacious stories where people did use their phones to film inappropriately. An…

This has been tried before, and Google Glass did not pass.

As others have said across multiple threads here, there is a difference between passive recordings from fixed vantage points made by a property owner (or which are required, as with autonomous vehicles, to make the thing work at all), and having people you're talking to do it. The difference is the social aspect; people who wear them still seem antisocial to the rest of the population. People with normal vision who feel the need to constantly record the world around them from their own vantage point certainly seem creepy to me.

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Post by bookofjoe »

marcuskane2 wrote: post #35

And just like the panic over cell phones, this too shall pass. Maybe half of HN is too young to remember (or old enough to have forgotten?) but when cell phones with cameras were becoming mainstream, there was media panic over them too - people could be discretely filming in bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. There were even a few high-profile salacious stories where people did use their phones to film inappropriately. An…

see also: "Reefer Madness" (1936). What's old is new again.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reefer+madness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by bookofjoe »

tjpnz wrote: post #30
zhoBEENG wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the US, Meta sold 7 million glasses units last year and is projected to sell 25+ million next year. Waymos already record everything happening in most of the area of many cities, and use much more than just cameras. 6g standard has sensing built in. Perhaps it is not the West Coast that is in the bubble.

They're not going to sell 25+ million more units when there's a very real threat of being assaulted while wearing them.

FWIW, I was one of the original 8,000 individuals who got Google Glass when they were first released in 2013.

I wore them for years whenever I was outside my home; only once did someone come up to me and say "Stop looking at me with those on."

Re: Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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Post by dymk »

cj wrote: post #12
ifwinterco wrote: post #6

Either Mark Zuckerberg is playing an elaborate practical joke on everyone, or this is further proof that the West Coast tech scene has become such a bubble people have lost all sense of how ordinary people think. There is just no way this was going to fly in 2026 given high and increasing negative sentiment globally towards tech, and I'm not sure what made them think otherwise

Meanwhile, Tesla drivers are driving around with a dozen cameras mounted on their vehicle pointing in every direction. Who would have thought that would be socially acceptable in 2026.

Dash cams have been a thing for decades
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