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

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Post by delecti »

I'm actually looking forward to AR glasses getting more mainstream. My dream is glasses with displays that show live captions for people speaking. My auditory processing kinda sucks, and live captions would be a huge help in conversations. I'd also see the appeal of a HUD with some basic information like compass direction, clock, and weather, but really just captions would be awesome.

But all of the mainstream glasses are basically just bad earbuds and cameras. The idea of permanent cameras on my face feels creepy as hell, and there are a million better options for earbuds. It also feels ridiculous to get a device with a permanent connection to one single company's AI. It's like a dedicated Hulu button on a smart TV's remote, but several cranked several notches dumber.

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

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Post by BeetleB »

zerobees wrote: post #65
BeetleB wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

In this instance, it's directed at people who are literally at the top of the world, having amassed almost unthinkable power and influence, and want to start a fashion trend specifically to grow their business empires. So yeah, it's a tiny bit different than bullying a classmate for having bad eyesight.

> it's directed at people who are literally at the top of the world

The very first sentence in the article associates people who wear these with "pervs".

So no, this is not merely directed at "the top of the world".

As an aside: VRs were "the cool thing" in the 90's and 00's. They never became practical, and fell out of favor. "Normal" people never stopped mocking those who used them. Now that Meta has made glasses that actually come close to looking normal, tech folks mock back ...? I just don't get it.

Yes, I get all the privacy concerns. But making fun because of very subjective reasons like appearance? It undercuts all the privacy concerns.

People need to grow up.

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

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Post by AgentME »

milkshakes wrote: post #52
arjie wrote: post #29

My wife wore Meta glasses (we borrowed a pair from a friend) on a visit to the Vancouver aquarium and they were frankly amazing. You could just hit a button and say something like “what’s that orange fish in the back?” and it just tells you and then you can read stuff off the plate or get more information if you need. I get that this kind of dunk polemic is popular among a certain crowd but it’s more incantatory than…

you can already do this with your phone without casually and needlessly invading the privacy of everyone around you

Is the phone's camera more privacy-preserving than the glasses's camera?

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

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Post by aaron695 »

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!

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

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Post by BeetleB »

toasty228 wrote: post #76
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!

Lack of bullying is exactly why the world is now run by sociopathic dorks like the ones pictured in the article

Is this meant to be even close to a reasonable perspective?

I could equally say "Bullying is exactly why Trump is in power and Elon Musk ran DOGE".

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

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Post by lmm »

Affric wrote: post #74
entontoent wrote: post #54

This feels like I'm reading a comment written by anti-video game moms in the early 90s talking about the stupid unfashionable nerds and how they were ushering in a frightening new age of fewer values and greater social isolation. I dunno, I'd love to have elf-like abilities to see systems of energy in the world around me that the human eye can't see, like wind patterns, and be able to zoom in on plants and animals in…

That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real. It’s not elf like, it’s not magic, it’s not a sense, quite the opposite, it’s replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

> replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

Replacing something all animals do with something uniquely human, perhaps the most important thing that sets us apart, is the death of the human experience?

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

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Post by hdndjsbbs »

doublerabbit wrote: post #23

As someone who wears glasses, I hate glasses. Yet these wears are never designed for those with glasses so you have to buy add ons to ensure you can see out these glasses. To have eyesight without glasses would be bliss, minus laser surgery.

Agreed, I can't even remember to wear my prescription eyeglasses that help me see and not get a headache. No chance I'm going to wear worse, heavier, more expensive glasses so I can take pictures and have AI talk to me 24/7.

I guess I'll move to a cabin in the woods.

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

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Post by BeetleB »

Affric wrote: post #74
entontoent wrote: post #54

This feels like I'm reading a comment written by anti-video game moms in the early 90s talking about the stupid unfashionable nerds and how they were ushering in a frightening new age of fewer values and greater social isolation. I dunno, I'd love to have elf-like abilities to see systems of energy in the world around me that the human eye can't see, like wind patterns, and be able to zoom in on plants and animals in…

That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real. It’s not elf like, it’s not magic, it’s not a sense, quite the opposite, it’s replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

> That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real.

aka the "Digital photos aren't real photos!" argument.

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

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Post by soiltype »

smokedetector1 wrote: post #53
BeetleB wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

zuck is trying to push bad, ugly glasses to profit at the expense of causing nefarious social impact. the blog is mocking the ugliness of the glasses. it represents how out of touch zuck is. i’m not sure how you got to “four eyes” from there

although it's true and funny that rich assholes often have terrible taste, it's important that criticism of pervert glasses doesn't make their ugliness load-bearing. what happens if the next gen looks good, we're suddenly okay with them?
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