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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #236

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Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. Their brand problem doesn't extend much further than the HN comment section.

Instagram or WhatsApp are absolutely critical for daily functioning in certain circles of humanity.

WhatsApp. Instagram not really. WhatsApp has unfortunately become "official" (not in a figure of speech) mode of communication in certain countries, one of which has more than a billion people in it.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #287

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OP is taking videos of his baby with these when Meta's page here doesn't event mention data privacy or security of the user's information or how it protects them

All babies look the same, out of anything private you could film by mistake, a baby seems pretty harmless.

Face recognition is uninuitively good. Google Photos was able to pick out faces from my baby photos pretty easily.

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post #208

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The ai is in the cloud Edit0: ie without internet access the ai is unable to produce an answer other than some prerecorded ones I guess In the live showcase the presenter even mentions that the wifi must have been bad for the ai to repeat the answer

You're saying "you've already used the first two ingredients, so go ahead and add the sauce" is the prerecorded response when it doesn't have a connection?

the thing is, if it loses the connection, why on earth would the correct behaviour be to just keep repeating the last response? It should just straight up say, "Sorry I'm having trouble connecting". Even the best case scenario here suggests terrible product design.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #236

They have a brand problem. Absolutely no way I buy anything from Meta.

Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. Their brand problem doesn't extend much further than the HN comment section.

You can use their products and still hate the brand.

I use Whatsapp daily (as does everyone I know) and there's no way I'm buying anything from Meta.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #236

They have a brand problem. Absolutely no way I buy anything from Meta.

Meta has close to 4 billion people worldwide using one or more of their products. Their brand problem doesn't extend much further than the HN comment section.

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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #99

It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user. I bought these both in clear and sunglasses and I love them. I've recorded some of the most amazing videos of my baby with them. Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you — I've even done a few longer bike rides with them and…

> It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user.

Really? Does nobody remember the "Glasshole" debacle with another equally large FAANG corporation who tried to push a similar technology? There were incidents of people getting physically assaulted JUST for wearing the things.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #99

It seems like there are a lot of negative comments about Meta's glasses which is surprising to me as a regular user. I bought these both in clear and sunglasses and I love them. I've recorded some of the most amazing videos of my baby with them. Listening to music is fantastic as it's different from regular headphones since you can still hear the world around you — I've even done a few longer bike rides with them and…

I use them too for similar uses. Brilliant. I also use zero AI. I don’t care. I totally understand ppl not buying them because they are meta. I get it.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Meta locked two games I already paid for - Blade & Sorcery VR and Beat Saber - behind account verification on the Quest 2. I already bought both of these, played them for a while, but now it won't let me use the headset without "verifying" my facebook account by sending them a photograph of my drivers license. Neither of these games are online, neither allow me to interact with other users in any way.

I will never buy a Meta product again, the brand reputation is lower than dirt to me. Even ignoring all the other awful things Meta does, they have no reason to require a verified account to play two local-only games that I already paid for. No matter how cool glasses like these may look, I have no trust that the brand will not suddenly demand more money or information from me to continue using a product I have already purchased.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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post #305

They have a brand problem. Absolutely no way I buy anything from Meta.

The brand on display here is Ray Ban. That's why they spent billions to lock in the partnership.

Facebook changed its name to Meta. Meta is the company with the brand problem, not Ray Ban.
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