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We need to invent something that does the opposite now where individuals could wear something that prevents them from showing up in someone else’s content without explicit digital consent (some sort of personal scrambler). I don’t think the LED feature listed on this product page will often be honored by most people who will use these shades
I looked at these at RayBan the other day. They're pretty cool especially for the price, but requiring a Meta account and Meta app ruined it for me.
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…
Omnipresent video input is going to be essential for Artificial Self-Instantiation AGIs early next year. Your personal assistant can’t help you if you need to tell it what you’re doing all the time!
I assume "help" in this case will mean shoving endless ads your face and feeding manipulative lies to you on behalf of anyone willing to pay for it.
These could be pretty incredible if the platform was more open. You get highly available image and voice input, and good voice output. 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 s…
that's the plan, but for facebook's benefit instead of yours. We're not allowed to have cool new tech that doesn't exploit us in some way for the benefit of some one else.
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> Which makes it seem pretty clear they're talking about stuff you can do because of the speakers. That's true. But it's not excluding display stuff. It's along the lines of some product having multiple features, and some marketing point only talking about the advantages of the first feature. People would expect further marketing points to address the other features, and/or not even realise they'd not seen the other…
> That's true. But it's not excluding display stuff. How many product landing pages talk about what you cannot do with the product or what it doesn't include? That'd be a very strange landing page for a product...
However, do you really think the marketing team didn't get together and recognize the major limitation of not having a display, and carefully craft the marketing so as to minimize that?
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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.
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Bose had sunglasses with bone conduction audio for a while - but I think they got discontinued. I like the idea but these are, to me, worse. I get why some people would like having a camera, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable with it.
There are countless bone conducting headphones on the market. And they are very affordable. No need for brand names.
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I would be so uncomfortable having lunch with someone wearing these. Am I alone in that?
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.
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People used to feel all kinds of ways about what is now normal smartphone use. There are probably a lot of remnants of those attitudes in ‘00s media that can still be found. Everyone either got over it or shut up about it because they (ahem, we) had clearly lost. I expect actually-useful smart glasses will eventually overcome the same stigma. Actually-useful being the key part of that.
Strong disagree. I think there is still a fairly large cohort of people who feel that e.g. looking at your phone at dinner, or responding to every random ding from your phone during a conversation, is rude and unacceptable behavior.