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

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Post by Brendinooo »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #126
Brendinooo wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

- glasses are only for "clandestine" use

- any use case I could suggest will be dismissed because other tools exist

- those tools are "better" partly because they're not covert

- which re-asserts that covertness is the glasses' only distinguishing feature

- therefore the only use is being a creep

Am I reading this right? If so, it's circular, and I don't think I can do much more than just point that out.

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

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Post by rpgbr »

BeetleB wrote: post #58
smokedetector1 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> zuck is trying to push bad, ugly glasses ... > i’m not sure how you got to “four eyes” from there I'm guessing you're younger than me. In my youth, having glasses meant being ugly.

You use normal glasses to see better. You buy a smart glass to record people without their knowledge. The only thing similar in these objects is that your wear them on your face.

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

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Post by rpgbr »

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!

None of those mentioned in this post will ever read it. I wish I could persuade Zuck to be a less awful person…

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

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Post by rpgbr »

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…

90s’ moms were right all along!!

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

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Post by bloody-crow »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #97
Brendinooo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real answer: more than I'd like. I am a contrarian who has intentionally worked to temper that impulse. But...nah, not really. I will say though: The only time I know for sure I knew someone had a pair of Meta Ray-Bans was in my kid's youth baseball league; The coach would film the kids batting while he pitched and shared the videos with us. People loved it. There are definitely cases where hands-free video recording…

A GoPro with a chest or hat harness would take much better videos

The benefit of glasses is that you know for sure what they're recording cause they're recording pretty much what you're looking at. A GoPro on your chest could be angled weirdly and you'd have no idea.

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

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Post by rpgbr »

Hugsbox wrote: post #8

Why did this site prompt me for permission to send notifications? Did my browser just do something weird? Seems strange

Blog owner here. The notification prompt uses standard browser support for this. I know many people don’t like, but there are some that appreciate getting updates this way.

FYI, every major browser has a global switch to disable notification prompts like my blog did. It works as expected.

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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

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 know what you're saying—but there's also an Emperor's New Clothes aspect to this. I mean, someone might really need to say, "Hey guys, and you also look ridiculous."

(Edit: I should read more of the comments—someone beat me to it.)

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

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Post by rpgbr »

montag wrote: post #33

I agree that VR goggles hit a ceiling due to simple inconvenience. Whether smart glasses will suffer the same fate is a very interesting question. But the article would be much more effective without the cheap “tech bro” ridicule. Ultimately, after calling every product ugly, the analysis put forward by this author comes down to “short battery life and privacy concerns”.

No, it wouldn’t.

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

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Post by bloody-crow »

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

What kind of privacy are people supposed to expect in a public place like an aquarium?

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

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Post by rpgbr »

BeetleB wrote: post #37

> sold a few million camera glasses for pervs I stopped reading. If you want to convince people, try to meet them where they're at.

I wasn’t trying to convincing anyone anything. But that these glasses with cameras are pretty popular among pervs is a fact.
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