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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses
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#202Could you please not record me while I'm eating a slice of pizza? Fuck absolutely very far off with this.
This is the most insightful comment on this topic.
Ubiquitous visual and audio recording makes an already self-absorbed, anxious and self-conscious youth (and adults for that matter) MUCH worse.
You put body cameras on police, whose adherence to uniform policies & procedures is in the public interest. You don't equip the general population with 27/7 cameras where the many mistakes of being human - mistakes we all make - are now fodder for the voyeuristic consumption of the masses, and the nefarious/political motivations of self-interested bureaucrats and politicians.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that’s just not what the product is. It’s not targeted at helping people navigate roads, it’s for giving creators a more seamless way of getting footage in their everyday life. Meta spent a crazy amount of money hosting a giant party at VidCon (a YouTube/TikTok/Instagram focused convention) and I haven’t really seen them pushing these glasses anywhere else. Casey Neistat did a review on the first-gen version in…
"Spy cameras" like these have been available cheaply for years. The only thing new here is the Ray-Ban brand connection.
These aren’t even new. They have been available for years.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that’s just not what the product is. It’s not targeted at helping people navigate roads, it’s for giving creators a more seamless way of getting footage in their everyday life. Meta spent a crazy amount of money hosting a giant party at VidCon (a YouTube/TikTok/Instagram focused convention) and I haven’t really seen them pushing these glasses anywhere else. Casey Neistat did a review on the first-gen version in…
"Spy cameras" like these have been available cheaply for years. The only thing new here is the Ray-Ban brand connection.
how many "spy cameras" allow you to live stream? "the only thing" here is your lack of imagination. not that I'm a proponent of these devices, as they are on the verge of creepCentral, but i'm not going to make an outlandish comment about them "only" being branded.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Pair it with my phone, give me driving directions which don't require me to take eyes off the road. I already do this with mine using audio.
sometimes audio is not enough, e.g. when driving motorbike/scooter in big city (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur) audio navigation is not enough to on time figure out which lane ramp you have to use at some intersection.
For motorbikes there are already options to get a HUD in the helmet, i.e. a CrossHelmet or Argon Transform.
This is not an endorsement of these products, I have no idea if they are actually any good.
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#206These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…
Yeah, that’s just not what the product is. It’s not targeted at helping people navigate roads, it’s for giving creators a more seamless way of getting footage in their everyday life. Meta spent a crazy amount of money hosting a giant party at VidCon (a YouTube/TikTok/Instagram focused convention) and I haven’t really seen them pushing these glasses anywhere else. Casey Neistat did a review on the first-gen version in…
It would probably be pretty awesome at navigating roads too. I remember citibiking in nyc and basically having to memorize directions and street names, or constantly pull out my phone and figure out where i'm going. Having audio through the glasses would work great and still be able to hear your surroundings.
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#207These things lack a display. I don't want cameras strapped to my head, I want a lightweight display I can wear unobtrusively and doesn't make anyone near me nervous (doubly so since this is from a company known for invading privacy), even if it's a fairly low resolution one. Version 1 could even be 4 lines of text and I'd still pay for it - I already wear glasses every waking moment of my life anyway. Pair it with my…
Imagine that while you're driving, a big line of text that you can't see through appears on your windshield.
Worse yet the text is opaque but you have to concentrate on it to read it.
All this would do is give drivers a false sense of security in your directions example. You'll be concentrating on the text regardless, meaning your concentration is off the road.
Even that autopilot sense where you drive your daily routine for 30 minutes and don't remember minutes 20 of it still has your subconscious aware of obstacles in the road, etc. This would require your concentration to be on the text. Whether you want it to or not.
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#208Any good argument that anyone can think of for a scenario where smart eyewear will not be as ubiquitous as smart phones eventually? I understand the privacy argument, but that is not going to be enough. The ability to think or blink in a certain way and capture anything you see is too powerful a tool, alongside the augmented reality that is coming.
The tendency for people to be creeped out by your surveillance glasses.
If anyone around me wore these, I'd promptly tease them playfully about it, making it clear it's creepy.
I understand that there are folks like yourself that are comfortable with it, but most people are against others walking around and recording.
I hate that they are trying to hide the fact that the glasses are modified. Clearly they understand that the camera must be hidden for it to be socially acceptable.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow dang, they really should make this more obvious. If I bought one and discovered that (despite being able to record and stream video) it had no display, I would be pissed.
> Wow dang, they really should make this more obvious. How? It's not mentioned anywhere that this is about displaying content, but it's very clear it's about capturing video and listening to audio only. Or you want them to put "Notice: No display is included in the device" on the landing page?
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, this is obviously where its going, but the tech isn't there yet without seriously compromising on some axis (looks, size/weight, etc) I think its a great way to get people used to the paradigm of smart glasses and further develop the other components that are already mature on phones (camera, compute, speakers, etc.)
Google Glass was released almost a decade ago, I'm not convinced the tech isn't there. I also had a RECON Mod Live HUD for my Snowboard Goggles which was released in 2011 which had a unit size not that far off from the Google Glass. It's disappointing that in 2023 there isn't something even remotely close (or better) to tech that was available 10+ years ago in the case of the RECON Mod Live.
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