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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

BeetleB wrote: post #101
bigfishrunning wrote: post #94

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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?

Use a GoPro or something. You'll get better quality video and you won't look like you're trying to hide the fact that you're filming.

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

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Post by smokedetector1 »

soiltype wrote: post #90
smokedetector1 wrote: post #53

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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?

i dont think the blog is proposing a long-term criteria. the ugliness is funny and worth noting now because its currently happening and a great symbol of them pushing plainly horrible stuff down our throats

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

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Post by delis-thumbs-7e »

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…

What country is that, sounds amazing?

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

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Post by jamie_ca »

websap wrote: post #75
slg wrote: post #47

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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.

No fashion forward person wears an Apple watch. Anyone, who remotely cares about what's on their wrist wears a whoop and a traditional watch. Problem with the Apple Watch is it does too much. They should have never enabled Apps on the Apple Watch. Kept it super simple. I hope they'll come up with a new version with an improved form factor and better battery life soon.

Ignoring the fashion context (to which, no comment), totally agree.

I have an Apple Watch SE that I got the battery refurbed after 5 years, 95% of my use is a quick check on my next calendar, setting timers, managing the morning alarm, and tracking medication and exercise. Oh, and constantly putting it into power save mode after I take it off the charger.

It's not a cellular model, so the other 5% is basically letting me know my phone has something to tell me. I have in the past tried to put games on it, but purely as a novelty.

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

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Post by type0 »

Terr_ wrote: post #9
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.

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…

I think something like this might be implemented as part of the helmet for jobs that require it, definitely not built into glasses that will likely always be ridiculous just like riding penny-farthing is kinda ridiculous now.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

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!

But they are ridiculous glasses. They're so big that they're visibly crushing the top of the Snapchat guy's ears. As a lifelong glasses wearer, this is a billboard size red flag.

This is an emperor's new clothes kinda situation. You could say 'our royal personage seems to be experiencing a sartorial deficit' or you could say 'the emperor's butt naked.'

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

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Post by BeetleB »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #111
BeetleB wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Use a GoPro or something. You'll get better quality video and you won't look like you're trying to hide the fact that you're filming.

So it's clear you're not going to bother researching into why people use it.
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