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Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by losvedir »

BatteryMountain wrote: post #436
aacook wrote: 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…

So META now has videos of your baby. Let that sink in. Hope they were clothed at least. People never learn. One day your children will be your judge when they are grown up, when they realise what you did to them. I hope it was worth it.

Because kids sure hate putting pictures on instagram...

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by xandrius »

_zoltan_ wrote: post #637
xandrius wrote: post #590

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Yep "vision" because they are trying to sell you glasses. /s But Meta's business is clearly getting more and more sweet data from its users. How anyone can not see past this being a surveillance tool for a vast amount of data is unbelievable to me.

the vision is not the glasses. the vision is a connected world. maybe this is not something that you understand, especially if you're in the US, as there it's common to move farther than the distance between Madrid to Budapest, as an example, but for a lot of people I know, like me, who live more than a 1000km from their childhood friends and 3/4 of the family, any innovation that helps us meet more often and do more…

From the EU, I really do not care for mr. Zuck. Fool me once, fool me twice, so to speak.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by endymion-light »

rhetocj23 wrote: post #684
endymion-light wrote: post #672

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honestly cookbooks genuinely are better i got the art of italian cooking recently and it's genuinely far easier to get a recipe than trying to scroll through a 50 page monologue about the intracicies of someones childhood before even listing the ingredients

Indeed. There is an element of trust with an actual cookbook - it signals quality. The internet over time has been riddled with junk, especially since the cost of production of information is just your opportunity cost of time. Even that is going away with the use of LLMs....

Core issue within the content age that I don't see being readily resolved. Unfortunately, I think the SEO marketing crowd are slowly catching up with LLMs, which is leading to poorer actual output when attempting to get information.

In the same way that google search used to be amazing before it was taken over by optimization, I think we're seeing a mass influx of content production to attempt to integrate itself into training corpus.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by mbreese »

illusive4080 wrote: post #662
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #601

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Switching from just basic Oculus accounts to Facebook accounts was the dumbest move, I say that from someone who was really enjoying the Rift and Quest 1 hardware. Whole thing was pretty effortless until that moment, then logging into it became this massive chore where you're bounding between the phone and headset twice, really tedious if you're not a big facebooker so haven't used their login flow in years and it wa…

Why did you have to switch to a Facebook account? I was gifted a Meta Quest 3S, and I was forced to make a Meta account, but I didn’t have to make a Facebook account.

When the Quest 2 came out they shifted from using a specific Oculus account to requiring Facebook accounts. It was a dumb idea and my wife was questioning why I made a Facebook account for my 12 year old kid (who as a typical Gen Z will probably never use FB proper).

They have since reversed that decision.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by ajuc »

rhetocj23 wrote: post #677
numpad0 wrote: post #508

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Every sufficiently tech obsessed kids dream about being able to look at the screen while walking. It takes experiencting for them to accept it doesn't work.

In this world even a self driving car doesnt help if an individual sporadically walks infront of a car at close range due to being distracted.

Fucking pedestrians even more and destroying cities is a big reason self driving cars should never happen.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by losvedir »

wronglebowski wrote: post #22

The live demo of this is brutal. https://x.com/ns123abc/status/1968469616545452055

Ouch. Kudos for trying, though. I miss the days of live demos at Apple events, instead of all these polished videos of people standing in silly poses around the Apple campus.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by pnt12 »

Cool tech, wrong company.

The tech is impressive, but people are already getting concerned about excessive screen time via zombie doomscrolling. Moving it from the pocket to literally in people's face will only worsen it.

And by Meta of all companies, with concerning privacy practices and of course motivated to hold your attention to serve you more ads.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by rhetocj23 »

endymion-light wrote: post #693
rhetocj23 wrote: post #684

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Indeed. There is an element of trust with an actual cookbook - it signals quality. The internet over time has been riddled with junk, especially since the cost of production of information is just your opportunity cost of time. Even that is going away with the use of LLMs....

Core issue within the content age that I don't see being readily resolved. Unfortunately, I think the SEO marketing crowd are slowly catching up with LLMs, which is leading to poorer actual output when attempting to get information. In the same way that google search used to be amazing before it was taken over by optimization, I think we're seeing a mass influx of content production to attempt to integrate itself int…

TBH I for one am glad about this.

I have always believed there is a cost borne to get the best of something. This means a sacrifice is entailed. Theres something very important about this re. the culture - a culture in which everything is free is how you get crap stuff produced. And people settle for crap stuff just because its free.

People who can see the bigger picture when you have this, can see the dangers of it.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by rayiner »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #116

>Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are designed to help you look up and stay present. With a quick glance at the in-lens display, you can accomplish everyday tasks—like checking messages, previewing photos, and collaborating with visual Meta AI prompts Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eye…

Also it makes you look like a dork.

Re: Meta Ray-Ban Display

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Post by hengheng »

heavyset_go wrote: post #394
drdaeman wrote: post #145

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> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you. They wouldn't do this if the conversation is important to them. Not as much as one would glance on a smartwatch when they get a chirp, which, I believe is perfectly socially acceptable in most business/casual situations. And if the…

The glasses close the attention loop faster, and the brain really, really likes quick stimuli -> dopamine release loops. The faster it happens, the more addictive it is. It's the difference between oral administration of drugs and IVing them directly into one's veins.

I don't even think it's cynical anymore to assume that this is the entire reason why Meta are pursuing this.

They see themselves in a race to produce the most radical, most efficient machine that produces the most effective addictive response. Content has been interchangeable for decades, everything is about the naked control over people's attention, because that is having power over people.

There is a very modernist logic in the whole effort. Everything must be taken to its extremes, nothing is ever enough, and nothing good sits in the middle of anything, and having values is only a detriment in this race.

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