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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

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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.

> their AI is not as good as their competitors

That's irrelevant because their AI was never a product they sold.

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

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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,…

Seems likely that the cops would take action against you for assault more than filming

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

#23
It's interesting that people seem to have forgotten/gotten over the whole Glasshole "rejection/anger" against Google glasses ~10years ago. Maybe it would have been more socially acceptable even back then if they hadn't made them look sci-fi and instead like regular glasses.

Or is it just that we haven't seen Scoble using these in the shower? :-D [1]

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

It’s one thing to make a passionate speech on the internet. It is another thing to be charged with battery and assault.

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

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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

You call it "boring advertising on consumer apps", but that's exactly where all the shady stuff keeps happening.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps

That is where the ugly shady stuff is.

> AR ventures

That is the corporate hobby stuff.

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

#27

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.

You can look for smart glasses (hey cyan) in aliexpress, and use claude/codex to reverse engineer. There's a guy who put an sdk on github. All you need is bluetooth to your phone, and of you go. You can build an app that does whatever you want within the firmware limitations of the glasses.

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

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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.

That's not why they're selling.

They're selling because people love to record other people, publicly, without shame. It's kind of like a go-pro, is the use case for these.

The creepers exist but they're not enough people to build a business around.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think all their actions could be explained by "they thought it will be next great thing and it either wasn't or they stumbled hard"

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

It’s one thing to make a passionate speech on the internet. It is another thing to be charged with battery and assault.

I mean technically if you do it for no reason (it not actually recording), they have no video evidence, and if they did actually record and use it as evidence, well, it shows you were in the right. Not sure what punishment is for creeping on someone's kid vs getting a slap in the face tho
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