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Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by pharmakom »

seventytwo wrote: post #480
api_or_ipa wrote: post #70

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…

I bet these smart glasses have basically zero profit margin, or even negative. The real value to be made here is to get facebook’s data vacuum into a new aspect of our lives.

First company to crack this will have Apple like market dominance.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by elif »

As a google glass early adopter, I must say that these glasses are 10x creepier because they are totally inconspicuous, higher quality camera, directly configured for immediate and even live internet upload, lets you cover the capture LED, has AI built into it, and is built by Facebook,

Yet society will treat these as 10x less creepy because fashion.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by gumballindie »

boffinAudio wrote: post #765
gumballindie wrote: post #754

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it should be. I am not comfortable with the idea that creeps are just walking around taking photos of me or my family.

Well, don't go out into public then .. because others have every right to record what you are doing in public.

Sorry - I am confused. Are you saying that we should accept creeps lurking around taking photos of people?

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by jonasdegendt »

elif wrote: post #768
scrumper wrote: post #425

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Do you really want to bloody your knuckles wrenching with sunglasses on? I would last maybe 20 minutes before frustratedly throwing them at a wall... unless of course you are doing engine teardown out in the driveway.

There's models in the lineup with clear lenses.

Re: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses

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Post by happytiger »

Am I the only one that finds the idea of live streaming from a pair of glasses utterly dystopian?

You don’t control the platform, and *everything you generate becomes irrevocable property of Meta forever*.

Seems so very, very unwise to me.

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Post by CursedUrn »

amrocha wrote: post #756
gumballindie wrote: post #754

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As it should be. I am not comfortable with the idea that creeps are just walking around taking photos of me or my family.

Don't worry nobody wants photos of you and your family

Facebook does. They make billions of dollars a year from that kind of data.

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Post by [deleted] »

happytiger wrote: post #776

Am I the only one that finds the idea of live streaming from a pair of glasses utterly dystopian? You don’t control the platform, and *everything you generate becomes irrevocable property of Meta forever*. Seems so very, very unwise to me.

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