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Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by BeetleB »

smokedetector1 wrote: post #28
Brendinooo wrote: post #20

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good. But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

I find it to be an acceptable use of mockery, one of the most powerful cultural methods of exposing that the emperor has no clothes

I'm not finding it to be any different from "Four eyes!"

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by vitally3643 »

dylan604 wrote: post #18
Terr_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Industrial use-cases could end up as fundamentally different product, ex: * Guiding someone through a complex assembly, it's going to be on pretty much all shift, with effects on thermal management and battery capacity. * You'll want to swap batteries so that it can be used by another shift, which will take priority over fashion. * It may also need to incorporate positioning markers and QR codes and external sensor d…

> * Ruggedness and repairability may be prioritized over miniaturization. repairability? in what trend are you seeing that being a thing? they'll just make you buy an expensive warranty/insurance plan for replacements. i really don't see tech allowing for repairability

Industrial and consumer electronics are entirely different industries. Industry isn't typically tolerant of the kind of extended warranty bullshit runaround that consumer brands employ.

For an industrial customer, your thing either needs to be repairable right NOW or it needs to be cheap enough that you can have disposable stock on hand. If your delicate widget can only be repaired by hand-delivering it to nude virgins on a mountaintop, you are not getting that 500k unit contract, you're getting shown to the door.

That is unless you're literally IBM and/or have monopolized your class of utterly indespensible widget. Only then do you have the power to tell Amazon to fuck off and send a warranty claim.

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by janalsncm »

I would encourage anyone who has a chance to book a Vision Pro demo at an Apple Store. It changed my mind in the following way:

Previously, I thought AVPs were expensive, ridiculous and useless. Now I think they are expensive and still mostly ridiculous and useless.

I saw the immersive movies and the immersive sports experiences. If they had AVP support for MLB/NBA games in my market I would absolutely buy a subscription. I think they have Lakers now but I don’t care about that.

From what I understand, there’s still a chicken and egg problem for Meta and Apple with regards to content and devices. It sucks because both companies are flush and could fix it if they wanted to.

The device itself still costs too much though.

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by VTimofeenko »

Gigachad wrote: post #13
panny wrote: post #5

Yesterday's story about airpods causing wearers to isolate themselves and become unhappier comes to mind. Headphones in your ears, display in your glasses... about the only way to connect with anyone will be to smell really bad I guess.

I can just imagine people walking around in a daze while instagram reels play endlessly in their meta spy glasses.

Folks are already walking (and driving, which is more scary) in a daze, glued to their doomscrolling rectangles

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by recursive »

throe93934 wrote: post #11
panny wrote: post #5

Yesterday's story about airpods causing wearers to isolate themselves and become unhappier comes to mind. Headphones in your ears, display in your glasses... about the only way to connect with anyone will be to smell really bad I guess.

The "smell" will be a pepper sprey! Why people can not just leave strangers alone? Always soliciting attention and "look at me" attitude! Most people are not "isolating themselves", they have stuff to do and places to be. They do not want to talk about some animal, or current issue of today!

That doesn't sound distinct from "isolating themselves". Some people actually enjoy connecting with people.

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by slg »

Brendinooo wrote: post #20

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good. But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

It also seems incredibly shortsighted. No fashion conscious person would have been caught dead wearing a smartwatch circa 2012, then Apple partnered with Hermes and eventually things changed. There are all sorts of valid complaints against this tech, but fashion is something so ephemeral that it's a silly to act like it is a long-term hindrance to adoption.

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by Brendinooo »

smokedetector1 wrote: post #28
Brendinooo wrote: post #20

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good. But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

I find it to be an acceptable use of mockery, one of the most powerful cultural methods of exposing that the emperor has no clothes

The point of that story was that everyone was going along with something that was obviously nonsense, and the kid who breaks the spell simply tells the truth.

In this situation most people don't buy smart glasses because they don't look good or have a killer use case. It's not the same thing.

Re: Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

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Post by svachalek »

I keep getting this ad for... Meta? glasses that shows a guy at a concert I guess filming it with his glasses. It zooms out and everyone around him has their phone in the air but not him because he's super cool.

It's like one of those puzzle images where you're supposed to find 20 things wrong with this picture.

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