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Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by georgemcbay »

paxys wrote: post #41

I don't understand why Meta is so insistent on making the camera and creepy video recording the primary feature of these glasses. They do have a ton of other uses. The speakers are genuinely great. It's useful to be able to hear notifications while walking. Having a decent AI for asking random questions is nice as well. It supports live translation. And unlike Airpods it doesn't tune out the rest of the world, which…

> Release a model without a camera and people might actually give it a chance

They also have to look radically different, because anyone who sees someone wearing the current design will always just assume the person using them is a creeper recording creepy videos whether or not the glasses are even capable of doing that. The association is already made from the current model.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by runtime_lens »

dom2 wrote: post #64
gumby wrote: post #57

The real killer app form me requires a camera (though it doesn’t need to record photos or video for me to access — I have a phone for that). I need a device that tells me who I’m talking to if I’ve been introduced to them before and tell me how I know them (This is Bob Dobbs, you first met him in Texas in 1985 and he saved you at that party when you needed some Slack)”. Especially great when I meet someone out of con…

You can actually accomplish this pretty easily with off the shelf components! You can just say, "Hey, I think we've met before but I can't remember exactly where?"

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Post by jms703 »

chvid wrote: post #38

Ray-Ban Wayfarer used to be a such classic design. By associating them with cameras and Meta, Ray-Ban risks messing that up for good.

"Ray-Ban Wayfarer used to be a such classic design. By associating them with cameras and Meta, Essilor Luxottica has messed up an iconic name and brand."

Fixed it for you.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by paul7986 »

Barbing wrote: post #49
paul7986 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you do one of the following now... - Wear sunglasses or glasses now - Take pics or videos with your phone Smart glasses are very handy and when traveling especially solo asking about what your seeing in front of you is handy/informative. I can see when AI becomes 100% reliable with smart glasses we all are almost know it alls. Everything and anything we need to know will be presented in front of us. Ok all the abo…

> when AI becomes 100% reliable with smart glasses we all are almost know it alls Keep going with that line of imagination and it's easy to understand how even someone burned on the Metaverse could be excited about the kinds of pitches Zuckerberg must give for his future visions. (Legitimately exciting thoughts, w/optimist hat on) Have you ever unintentionally recorded a stranger?

Have you ever took a photo or video while your in a crowd and other people you don't know appearred in either? Did you care about them and look for them to ask if it was ok that they were in the background of the media you took?

Pardon but I don't understand your question cause if you think of it all humans have done the above since the day cameras or video cameras existed.

Further, im pretty sure smart glasses to AI devices are the next big thing. Meta probably will not win the smart glass race as many hate them due to privacy reasons. Apple a privacy focused company could add tech to blur out and or anonymize faces of those in the background to calm peoples fears.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by [deleted] »

jms703 wrote: post #73
chvid wrote: post #38

Ray-Ban Wayfarer used to be a such classic design. By associating them with cameras and Meta, Ray-Ban risks messing that up for good.

"Ray-Ban Wayfarer used to be a such classic design. By associating them with cameras and Meta, Essilor Luxottica has messed up an iconic name and brand." Fixed it for you.

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Post by mattoxic »

gumby wrote: post #57

The real killer app form me requires a camera (though it doesn’t need to record photos or video for me to access — I have a phone for that). I need a device that tells me who I’m talking to if I’ve been introduced to them before and tell me how I know them (This is Bob Dobbs, you first met him in Texas in 1985 and he saved you at that party when you needed some Slack)”. Especially great when I meet someone out of con…

I would immediately walk way from you. Then you could label me as an uncooperative element in your database of people you've met.

These things are peak ick

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by [deleted] »

ge96 wrote: post #33
gdulli wrote: post #4

It's hard to believe that in the late smartphone era there are people who think they're not online enough already, and want smart glasses so they can be even more online.

The concept of constantly taking images and storing metadata so you can remember where your keys are seems nuts but at the same time I could see it being normal.

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Post by Someone »

ffsm8 wrote: post #55
paxys wrote: post #41

I don't understand why Meta is so insistent on making the camera and creepy video recording the primary feature of these glasses. They do have a ton of other uses. The speakers are genuinely great. It's useful to be able to hear notifications while walking. Having a decent AI for asking random questions is nice as well. It supports live translation. And unlike Airpods it doesn't tune out the rest of the world, which…

Eh, realistically speaking the camera is it's main selling point. If you want just audio, why not get eg an aftershockz headset. They've been around for over 10 yrs and work very well for that exact usecase (speaker that doesn't block your ears whatsoever) The translation feature is also available on your phone which you'll need to pull out when using it anyway, because otherwise the other party won't understand what…

> The translation feature is also available on your phone which you'll need to pull out when using it anyway, because otherwise the other party won't understand what you're saying either...

I think a major use case for live translation is one where the other party is standing opposite to you.

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by brigandish »

Nursie wrote: post #34
charcircuit wrote: post #28

The UK police monitoring your social media posts is more of a risk than Meta monitoring your social media posts to their platforms.

> Meta monitoring your social media posts to their platforms. Monitoring everything around you, all the time. And what you've heard about the UK police is likely to have been comically exaggerated by people with an agenda. There are problems, yes, they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no. (I'm rate limited and can't reply below - when people look into these figures what they tend to…

> they do not arrest thousands of people a year for being mean on twitter, no.

It doesn't need to be thousands for it to be worrying.

From [1]:

> The Metropolitan Police has awarded Father Ted creator and Irish comedian Graham Linehan £25,000 and an unreserved apology after they arrested him last year as his plane touched down at Heathrow airport.

> Last year, Graham Linehan — who now lives in Arizona, United States of America — was arrested by five armed police officers as he landed at Heathrow airport in one of the most shocking incidents we have seen in years.

> What was Graham's supposed crime? Three gender-critical posts on X. This is despite the fact that gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010 and were reaffirmed by last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling, which settled that "sex" is defined by biology, not gender identity.

Armed police for 3 tweets on a political topic, seems like overkill in an unfortunately possible literal use of the word. It also seems that it is far more than one, too:

> General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, Lord Young, said: "I'm beginning to lose count of the number of cases we've fought in which the police have arrested someone for a tweet, decided to take no further action and then had to pay them substantial compensation for wrongful arrest.

[1] https://freespeechunion.org/news/met-police-apologises-and-p...

Re: Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

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Post by com2kid »

ffsm8 wrote: post #55
paxys wrote: post #41

I don't understand why Meta is so insistent on making the camera and creepy video recording the primary feature of these glasses. They do have a ton of other uses. The speakers are genuinely great. It's useful to be able to hear notifications while walking. Having a decent AI for asking random questions is nice as well. It supports live translation. And unlike Airpods it doesn't tune out the rest of the world, which…

Eh, realistically speaking the camera is it's main selling point. If you want just audio, why not get eg an aftershockz headset. They've been around for over 10 yrs and work very well for that exact usecase (speaker that doesn't block your ears whatsoever) The translation feature is also available on your phone which you'll need to pull out when using it anyway, because otherwise the other party won't understand what…

Having my main pair of prescription glasses, covered by insurance, also be my Bluetooth headset is super useful.

The camera feature is also really nice for a lot of non-creepy use cases. From translating signs and plaques in front of me w/o pulling out my phone, to taking 1st person videos on amusement park rides, to photos of my son without having to view the world through my phone waiting for just the right shot.

Heck video calls with Grandma where I can chase my son around the house and let Grandma see everything, or when we read books together over video chat.

Meta glasses are great for parents, kids do all sorts of wacky things and I don't want to be one of those parents always waiting with my phone out so I can capture the perfect picture.

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