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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Any 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 argument is that many people go through the hassle of contact lenses as to not have to wear things on their face.

The bigger problem is that most of reality is just not that interesting. We are already well passed the marginal utility of additional photos/video.

Augmented reality has been right around the corner for many years now. There is obviously all kinds of fundamental flaws with these ideas that those with vested interest pretend do not exist.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

#442
post #94

Any word on whether they will let custom code/apps run on this, or is it a walled garden? Whisper + LLM with these would be nice. These glasses could also be great for vision impaired folks.

It sounds like they have that planned in the short-term, and from the presentation, multi-modal AI "sometime next year" (e.g. answering "What is this building that I'm looking at right now?").

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

#445

What company would I trust less than Google to deploy wearable technology with potentially staggering privacy issues? OK, it's probably Twitter; but still, I'm sure as hell not buying anything tied to Meta, either.

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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

#448

Bleak and creepy at the same time. Fortunately, I feel that the vibe shift related to this bleakness has already got going, and people seen wearing these abominations will instantly get branded as not-cool and worse. Come to think of it, Ray-Ban was also on its way down well before this.

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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

#449

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…

Luxottica is probably doing very nicely on this partnership, and may well be offering Apple a substantial price cut to compensate. I had never heard of 'Rayban' before this Apple announcement! (Not that I am the target market for sunglasses anyway, in dark and wet Great Britain)

It’s only probably the most famous sunglasses brand in human history
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