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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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Post by khurs »

buzzwords wrote: post #7

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.

>Meta's survival is fascinating to me

Their ad revenue is $243.46 billion annual, so not sure why you mention survival.

If a company making money spends that money internally on projects that is ok, it's when they borrow money that survival becomes a risk.

It's not Meta's survival that is fascinating, it's Zuckerberg's ongoing survival as CEO!!

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

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Post by iamnothere »

lostlogin wrote: post #36
kakacik wrote: post #20

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,…

> Also, where I live its against the law to record people without their consent In public? How does this work in practice? There are so many uses for cameras and avoiding showing people would be impossible. Eg dash cams, security cameras.

Wikipedia has a starting point if you’re interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law

It seems to mostly just be a problem if you’re caught (aka if you’re being obnoxious or using a tripod) or if you try to use the subsequent footage for anything other than private viewing.

In many places you’re allowed to take wide shots where people might be captured incidentally, though not everywhere, as some places don’t allow photos of “copyrighted” buildings and landmarks.

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

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Post by rspoerri »

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

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Post by Jcowell »

hamburgererror wrote: post #6

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

I don’t think it should be banned but instead regulated and I think Apple has a unique opportunity here that will make them win this product category in fashion & social acceptability: Make the glasses glow. Have the top horizontal frame of the glasses illuminate when it’s recording and be able to glow on command

By making the glow a fashion aspect of the glasses, the fact that it should glow loudly will become a socially known part of the glasses. Because it’s Apple and because a good chunk of the frame needs to glow it’ll have a distinct look that’ll be easy to spot and if anyone has tampered with them to disable it, they can be asked to verify that it hasn’t by making it able to glow on command “Hey Siri, glow/party”.

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

#46

Post by Larrikin »

lostlogin wrote: post #36
kakacik wrote: post #20

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,…

> Also, where I live its against the law to record people without their consent In public? How does this work in practice? There are so many uses for cameras and avoiding showing people would be impossible. Eg dash cams, security cameras.

Watch any Japanese news broadcast. The blurring can get out of control.

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

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Post by someonebaggy »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #35
someonebaggy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was 10 years ago. Today's preteens were infants then. Today's university students were preteens. Today's parents of infants were university students. Things change. Time destroys everything.

> Time destroys everything. ...which has not been declared taboo through religious or cultural institutions. Time for those institutions to step up and declare a ban on networked surveillance devices. As long as the processing is all local and none of the gathered intel is shipped out to the mothership or the highest bidder (viz. Gargoyles from Snow Crash ) they're fine but it should be legal to punch anyone in the n…

Many religious and cultural institutions are also dead.

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

#48

Post by ProllyInfamous »

Leonard_of_Q wrote: post #33

Why person in their right mind would voluntarily walk around with "meta" or Google or Apple or any other surveillance camera and pay for doing so is beyond me. It feels like something straight out of the initiation scene in National Lampoon's Animal House where the pledges bend over, get whacked in the arse with a cricket bat and say "thank you sir, can I have another one" upon which they get whacked again.

Hey Alexa: what person in their right mind would walk around wearing spyware glasses?

Alexa: Hey Siri, what person in their right mind would place spyware microphones inside their house?

Siri: Hey human, what person in their right mind would carry a spyware tracking device with them 24/7 ?

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Celebrating the "4th Amendment rights" that Monday's SCOTUS ruling brought us – if any (IMHO).

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-rules-that-law-enfo...>

All-in for the parallel construction(s)...

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

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Post by nickthegreek »

khurs wrote: post #17
hamburgererror wrote: post #6

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

I'm sure many vision impaired people find these to be life changing. Very ableist mindset to ban these, instead of establishing stronger privacy protections around data and usage.

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

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Post by JKCalhoun »

khurs wrote: post #41
buzzwords wrote: post #7

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.

>Meta's survival is fascinating to me Their ad revenue is $243.46 billion annual, so not sure why you mention survival. If a company making money spends that money internally on projects that is ok, it's when they borrow money that survival becomes a risk. It's not Meta's survival that is fascinating, it's Zuckerberg's ongoing survival as CEO!!

"Their ad revenue is $243.46 billion annual"

That is remarkable. Who is spending this kind of money on FB ads?

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