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Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too
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#142This 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…
People already walk around with skins created for themselves. Clothing choices, hair styling, tanning, tattoos, piercings, colored contacts, fur suits, teeth sharpening, surgery for changing the shape of various parts of their body, and probably more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.
I don't think the people who would make AR avatars would exceed the groups of people who do the more uncommon forms of the above. A very niche thing.
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#143The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.
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#144This stuff is probably inevitable since economics will drive data collection. What we really need is a digital bill of rights to protect everyone. Recording in public without consent also needs to end.
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#145I feel like there is a lot pf potential for display-based AR in a glasses form factor. I wouldn't want to dismiss that outright. However, the concern about sensors (cameras and microphones) in the glasses is also real, despite them adding potentially the most value to those devices.
The tech will make its way into commercial applications and assistive technology. Beyind that, things can go a couple of ways:
- There is a killer application with mass appeal and thise glasses become common in public
- Consumer devices will lose their cameras due to large scale pushback. This will kill one of their major AI-related selling points (images as context). Microphines, although potentially equally intrusive, are more likely to stay.
- Comsumer devices will fade away in their entirety.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
His employees and the lickspittle tech blog press are
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 t…
> The very first sentence in the article associates people who wear these with "pervs".
But they're literally the target market. Nobody else needs a hidden camera on their face.
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#149Earlier 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
I'm not finding it to be any different from "Four eyes!"
... These are people with fine vision, wearing ugly glasses by choice. It's not at all comparable.
I can criticize anyone's choices. Needing glasses is not a choice. Wearing Meta creep-shot raybans is a choice i will never stop criticizing
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> hat harness