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Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

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Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

#11

Meta's survival is fascinating to me. They dumped money in VR, their AI is not as good as their competitors and now they are dumping money on this glasses thing. They keep on getting caught doing shady things too.

Says a lot about just how much money they’re raking in from core business.

Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

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> Meta’s rate limit is ridiculous. [...] feature [...] doesn’t use Meta’s servers. It runs on-device, using the chips inside the glasses [...] I turned off my internet, and it kept working. BMW heated-seats style move. Classy.

Well, of course it's getting rate limited behind a subscription. Someone has to pay for all the additional compute and storage required to datamine your conversations.

Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

#17

This kind of product should simply be banned, there's just so many things wrong.

Like all things, there can be positive use cases.

For example, a musician would probably rather have the audience wearing recording glasses and actually watching then recording on phone and watching the phone screen.

The 'creepy pick up artists' and other social media types have become synonymous with it unfortunately

Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

#18
Mild tangent: are there smart glasses out there without camera, without needing internet access, and with custom app support? All my neck and back want is a way for me to look up instead of down whenever I'm bored and smart glasses would be one possible solution for that.

Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

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post #10

Meta's survival is fascinating to me. They dumped money in VR, their AI is not as good as their competitors and now they are dumping money on this glasses thing. They keep on getting caught doing shady things too.

I think it is the shady stuff that earns them money. They cant survive without that. The rest is a corporate hobby, basically.

i think honestly it’s the opposite. it still confuses me why meta invested so much in their pointless experiments (think any of their AR ventures) when their main source of revenue was, and continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps

Re: Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

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post #3

Doesn’t even have adoption yet? They’re skipping a couple of steps on the enshitification ladder here

They are actually selling really well. But sadly, they are selling because you can drill out the 'recording' indicator light and use them to secretly record people to make creepy TikToks.

Thats a good candidate for a closed fist falling at non-walking speeds at somebody's ugly face. Do that around my kids and you are automatically a pedo that will get adequate treatment.

Also, where I live its against the law to record people without their consent so if I would be feeling very nice I would just hold you against the ground till cops come.

You wear them = you film with them. Get your shit together kids, this ain't some harmless fun.

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