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

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Post by BeetleB »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #94
BeetleB wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 t…

This would be a great argument if there were any non-pervy application for these glasses. They're marketed at people who already have screens and better cameras in their pockets and on their wrists. "Clandestine" use cases are the only application here.

> This would be a great argument if there were any non-pervy application for these glasses.

Have you even bothered researching it?

Can you please go and respond to the comments in this submission and let them know you are denying their reality?

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

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Post by drdeca »

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

This seems implausible.

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

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

SkiFreeWin3 wrote: post #4

Industrial use cases will be huge once software+AI are firing on all cylinders. I’m a skeptic on the consumer side of this being a runaway hit like smartphones. Enterprise and industrial and the trades use cases in physical space is big.

Are you sure?

Wasn’t HoloLens (from Microsoft) squarely aimed at this use case? What went wrong there?

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

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Post by Gigachad »

VTimofeenko wrote: post #44
Gigachad wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Now it's even lower friction. Zuck wants absolutely no delay between you having a moment of inactivity and having reels in your face. They need every single drop of your attention on adverts.

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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

malfist wrote: post #10
miladyincontrol wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m inclined to believe in a future a bit less binary and more MR in general. Devices that can handle a variety of experiences from 1% augmented to 100% virtual.

Well as long as we're all stating opionins at each other, I think bikes with 650b tires are the future

In the future, all cars will have fins

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

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Post by frizlab »

AgentME wrote: post #84
milkshakes wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes, obviously? Holding a phone to film someone is obvious, having glasses that film is just having glasses…

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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

BeetleB wrote: post #99
mrkpdl wrote: post #60

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> sold a few million camera glasses for pervs I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices. Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100% of the time. So maybe ‘glasses for inconsiderate people who are sometimes also pervs’ is a better description?

> I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices. It's not a reasonable characterization of the people that wear these devices, and that's what the sentence is implying. > Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100% of the time. Isn't it great, then, that these glasses don't do that? Years ago I lived in a country where…

> Isn't it great, then, that these glasses don't do that?

Are the cameras somehow removable? Is there an obvious lens cap? If not, then everyone in your field of view is at the business end of a camera lens all of the time, and might as well be filming.

Even if I trust the wearer of these glasses to not be constantly recording, I certainly don't trust the manufacturer of them.

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

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Post by YuechenLi »

SkiFreeWin3 wrote: post #4

Industrial use cases will be huge once software+AI are firing on all cylinders. I’m a skeptic on the consumer side of this being a runaway hit like smartphones. Enterprise and industrial and the trades use cases in physical space is big.

You should be skeptical of industrial use case as well. Allowing any device with internet access and a camera on it onto the floor of most electronics manufacturing facility is a nonstarter, phones, smart glasses, or anything of that sort. The other thing is, smart glasses buy nothing over having PCs/assembly line machines with screens for HMI, and standard operating procedures can be printed on paper. Also, if you are actually an operator on an assembly line, wearing these glasses for 10 hours a day is the last thing you want at your job.

The case for them gets even worse for heavy manufacturing industry/trades, since you have to think about safety and liability now: what if these smart glasses fall into the machines and cause an accident? Can these smartglasses can withstand the environmental conditions in the workshop?

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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

Brendinooo wrote: post #100
bigfishrunning wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would be a great argument if there were any non-pervy application for these glasses. They're marketed at people who already have screens and better cameras in their pockets and on their wrists. "Clandestine" use cases are the only application here.

Ugh, trying not to get baited into stuff like this but - There are absolutely non-pervy reasons why your hands might be occupied but you want to record a video.

This is why gopros exist.
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