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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.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_99521193833...
Is my opinion about it.
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Yeah, I go hiking several times a week and I'd wear these all the time. I like listening to podcasts or music, but want to be able to hear any rattlesnakes or interesting birds, so the speakers seem like a plus. And being able to snap a photo without pulling my phone out would also be great. I probably wouldn't use them in a lot of situations, but hiking seems like a good one. If these end up being decent I'd conside…
Bone conducting headphones are great, I use them all of the time on walks, and you can hear everything as long as you don't play anything too loud. If they get loud enough then you don't hear certain things but that goes for any kind of headphones.
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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…
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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.
In the US specifically, there are protected first amendment rights.
However, plenty of people have genuine reason to be concerned. Stalkers. Witness protection. Etc. Having managed large datasets, these things come up fairly often. There's an incredible diversity of potential problems.
It's not reasonable to tell everyone who has an issue like this: "Well, don't go out into public then"
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lol, facebook can barely get the glasses to play sound reliably, they aren't spying on you with these glasses.
> lol, facebook can barely get the glasses to play sound reliably, they aren't spying on you with these glasses. Based on what do you assume playing sound reliably is a harder or more priority problem than spying on you?
Not only that, but a level of attention to detail that means that what ever spying it does can happen reliably and inside a tiny power envelope.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying don't be suspicious of facebook, What I'm asking is to actually interrogate their level of skill.
facebook are frankly shite at software, just use any of their supporting apps.
o Portal, great hardware, shame that it never connected reliably.
o oculus: They have the power of facebook/instagram/social graph, yet its impossible to join your mate in game. Something Steam nailed in the days of dialup
o Rayban: cannot play audio reliably, pretty tricky to download pictures.
o Advertising: fuck me, its like oracle had a baby with SAP, and force fed it MS access forms.
Yes, yes its an advertising giant. But have you tried to get any usable and accurate data out of it?
Stop building them up like they are an unstoppable genius factory. Its basically a bunch of confused cats trapped under a duvet. The difference being those cats can drive advertising clicks.
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lol, facebook can barely get the glasses to play sound reliably, they aren't spying on you with these glasses.
There's very often a large difference between the v1 capability and the long term aspiration, both in technical capabilities and market capture. Compare Windows 1.0 ( https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-10/101 ) with Windows 10/11.
Not that we shouldnt be suspicious of facebook, but we really must actually seek evidence rather than just decry them as witches. It lets other companies get away with loads simply because they are well liked.
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.
If delivered, augmented reality will be the single biggest technical breakthrough since the smartphone.
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.
Battery life: The announcement says 4 hours. That puts it at "gaming laptop" levels of inconvenience. It will have to be at least day long to be that ubiquitous and improvements of that scale will take many years.
Usability: touch gestures on the frame or a smartphone app make this very non-effortless. The "think or blink in a certain way" is definitely not there yet and I doubt it will be in the next 20 years. Also, that UX would be the innovation, not the glasses it is affixed to.
Banal reason: Look at VR, 3D, google glass,... . Much hype and then nothing. Why should this be any different?
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.
Smartphones became ubiquous quickly because by the year 2007 almost everyone was used to having a cellphone in their pocket, smart or not. Personally, I find regular sun/glasses uncomfortable and I don't see myself ever buying smart ones.
