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Pricing is interesting. $299 for the Wayfarer model when the base Wayfarer goes for $171 on the Rayban website. If (and this is a big if) you assume Luxottica takes the same cut on both models, then Meta is selling a camera, headphones, etc, conveniently packaged into a very small form-factor for $128. If I were in the market for a new pair of sunglasses, it isn't hard to seem me splurging another $128 for something…
As a shooting enthusiast, my first thought is what this does in pistol competitions. Shooting a pistol is, perhaps unintuitively, more difficult than a long arm, because the rear sight is effectively floating around "out there", and you need practice to get your rear eye in the right place (even if using a flip-up red dot reflex sight). When moving around, re-acquiring always takes time, and it slows you down. With t…
Sounds pretty terrifying to me. A real life aimbot, that any human being can use for 1 shot 1 kill.
My kids will (and I approve, to be honest) REFUSE to repeat what they just did for the camera, and if they see it out, will sometimes shutdown whatever AMAZING thing they just re-invented.
The supercomputer taking "T3h B3st P1ctur3 Ev@R" in my pocket cannot solve that problem, but some rando "glasses"/"contacts" solution that could has been just out-of-reach for this use case for what feels like decades ;)
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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?
They are also called "smart glasses", but they are just headphones and a camera. Nobody calls their bluetooth headphones "smart".
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> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. Not necessarily an awesome Instagram picture, but just a picture of some mail you got, a tool you are putting away, any thing you want to record and save. Heck, why not a picture of your computer screen? Pair that with quickly available audio transcriptions and you can also dictate anything, thoughts, small notes, information as…
I am currently in the middle of rebuilding a pair of 6.2L small block Chevrolet engines. By a factor of six these are the largest engines I've ever worked on, and the rebuild is far more extensive than anything I've attempted before too. During the teardown, part of my process (let's not dignify it with "workflow") has been photographing the incredible amount of crap that's been bolted to the engines as I remove piec…
>A valid Meta account
Pass.
How are people going to feel if people walk into a bathroom wearing these?
If you want to secretly record people in the bathroom there are a hundred more discrete ways of doing so than these glasses. Someone's shirt button could be doing it right now.
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If you are in PUBLIC, that is by definition NOT PRIVATE.
Correct, and people do have expectations, albeit reduced, of privacy in public too. Moreover, this expectation is thankfully backed by the law in various jurisdictions. I would very much like to see those rights beefed up for the machine learning age, after reading all these comments. Or would you like to live in a panopticon like the Chinese? Hey, you're on PUBLIC property, citizen! Smile for the camera, and don't t…
If we're already dealing with ubiquitous recording in public, I'd rather give some of that power back to individuals rather than the government.
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I mean, the light makes it VERY apparent when it's recording or taking a picture. Would you be just as uncomfortable eating lunch with someone who had their phone in their hand? It'd be much easier to surreptitiously record/photograph someone with a phone because they have no status indicator when they're recording and people inadvertently point phone lenses at each other all the time.
> someone who had their phone in their hand? I feel like I have a good idea when someone is recording or not. Phone orientation and behavior is different.
Pricing is interesting. $299 for the Wayfarer model when the base Wayfarer goes for $171 on the Rayban website. If (and this is a big if) you assume Luxottica takes the same cut on both models, then Meta is selling a camera, headphones, etc, conveniently packaged into a very small form-factor for $128. If I were in the market for a new pair of sunglasses, it isn't hard to seem me splurging another $128 for something…
With the amount of data collected, it should be provided free of charge, heck, you are getting paid too!