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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 #48
smokedetector1 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They are literally deforming his ears, as you can see in this near-profile photo. If you wear these for more than 5-10 minutes at a time you will either find them painfully uncomfortable or you will damage your ear cartilage. The might have worked great as part of an integrated helmet or something, as glasses they completely fail.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/snap-specs-launch-live-l...

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

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Post by mrkpdl »

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?

As long as there’s a lens on them the perception remains. Ala panopticon. Particularly the idea that not knowing when you are being watched means you must assume you are being watched all the time. In the case of your glasses this maps 1 to 1. Your camera is there, it is pointing forwards at all times. We do not know what you are or are not filming.

Regarding your smart phone analogy. Which seems to make the point that you shouldn’t argue against the negative aspects of something that may later become popular, I have a story too. Before smart phones were a thing, my school attempted to ban the ‘camera phone’. Which was a pretty reasonable thing to do in that context and at that time. History shows that this was a good idea, even if the levee broke later with the smart phone which has been an absolute negative in school hours.

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

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Post by Brendinooo »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #110
Brendinooo wrote: post #100

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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.

I mean, this is logically no different than saying that we shouldn't use smartphone cameras because DSLRs exist.

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

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Post by Brendinooo »

anigbrowl wrote: post #121
Brendinooo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They are literally deforming his ears, as you can see in this near-profile photo. If you wear these for more than 5-10 minutes at a time you will either find them painfully uncomfortable or you will damage your ear cartilage. The might have worked great as part of an integrated helmet or something, as glasses they completely fail. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/snap-specs-launch-live-l...

Yup. You're supporting my point, right? People see stuff like that and don't buy it as a result. The emperor doesn't have new clothes, and nobody is acting like he does.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

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?

It's not about taste! They're literally too big to function effectively! If you bed over to look at something they will fall off your face. It's like offering running shoes with kilogram-weight batteries on the bottom, a basic failure to understand the problem.

I can't believe people are trying to make excuses for a product that is clearly not ready for consumer applications.

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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

Brendinooo wrote: post #123
bigfishrunning wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why gopros exist.

I mean, this is logically no different than saying that we shouldn't use smartphone cameras because DSLRs exist.

It is, because when you're using a smartphone camera you're not trying to hide the fact that you're filming, or at least it's harder to do so. There are already ways to film without having to hold a camera, and those ways produce a better product. The advantage of the glasses is you can be a creep but be less obvious about it.

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

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Post by bigfishrunning »

BeetleB wrote: post #120
bigfishrunning wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, I don't need to research it. I have all the evidence I need.

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

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Post by recursive »

BeetleB wrote: post #86
toasty228 wrote: post #76

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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".

Both can be true.

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

All of the people whining about the tone of this are way off base. These glasses are a joke because they are too large for the human head. They are visibly crushing the ears of the wearers. They are so large that if you bend your neck or back to look at something they will fall off.

But it's making fun of people who wear glasses

No it isn't. I've had to wear glasses with thick ass lenses since the age of 5 and I am telling you with my 50 years of glasses-wearing experience that these glasses are stupid because they were very clearly designed by people who don't have to wear glasses. Defending these is like saying that people who laugh at bicycle wheels with rounded corners are being shapeist.

It's not about the fashion, or the technology, or even the social applications. It's because these are not ready for market and anyone who makes the mistake of buying them is going to regard them as a $2000 paperweight by the end of week 1.

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

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Post by rpgbr »

Brendinooo wrote: post #73
smokedetector1 wrote: post #57

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it is spiritually the same even if its not exactly the same

Stating the obvious truth and mocking are, spiritually, two very different things.

Whatever, man. Making fun of those losers is the least damage we can cause to them. No need to defend the Zucks and co. like they were kids (although I agree they behave like children).
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