What kind of fool would spend $60 for something that a 1¢ piece of black electrical tape can do?
Doesn’t the glasses “know” if you tape it over and blocks you? I thought I remember there being a proximity sensor.
That said, usually prox sensors don’t detect things like…nail polish. Or paint.
I want to see videos of people getting absolutely fucked up just for wearing one (willingly) at all.
This is the only story we need to be seeing happen. Every single person seen wearing I’ve just gets bodied. No mercy. No excuses.
It should be specified as an exemption to property and assault rules. Oh you have footage of the person doing it to you? Great, now we know who’s innocent by definition.
I accept absolutely no exception to this.
Something non-Meta could be great for accessibility, for something like blind people, and how you make it distinctively and obviously non-privacy breaking is a challenge, but that’s the only exception. No one else should have technology on their faces, there is absolutely no good to come from that.
If you see someone wearing the glasses, can’t you just call them a pervert regardless? I don’t understand the point of them.
$60? I’ll put 2 drops of black nail polish over the LED for you for $20.
And if you’re really that worried about it a regular diode might do the trick. Or just a resistor. Or just desoldering the LED. In any case, it’s fucking stupid that these glasses exist in the first place.
Only because creeps exist. These would be fantastic for POV recording of extreme sports and racing if it weren’t for creeps. Unfortunately there are creeps.
You mean like a gopro?
Gopro always gives a funny perspective because it has to be mounted on a helmet or gas tank or such. Camera glasses would give true rider/driver/skier/you name it point of view. There’s real world, legitimate uses for them, they just don’t outweigh the risk of nefarious use.
And is that light really all that “privacy protecting” anyway?
Me wearing my skull-protecting shirt that says “I’m going to break your fucking skull open”
I think it’s only a matter of time before these things are ubiquitous. Once they find their “killer app”, whatever it is, people will make excuses for any failings. We’ll fall back to, “everyone is doing it, and privacy has been dead for a long time, that’s nothing new.” In other words, the same excuses we’ve always used to justify whatever terrible thing it is we want to do.
The people who continue to reject them and refuse to wear them will be marginalized and laughed at. I suppose by the time this happens, “Gen Z” will be the new “boomer”?
MMW.
Strong disagree. People fucking hate wearing tech on their faces for any extended period of time. People will push back on tech if it doesn’t actually offer any benefit to users and this doesn’t do anything better than what we already have.
Any killer app idea could be done better and faster and reach way more people if you just build it on a phone with your existing phone camera.
Plus there’s a bunch of people who actually have to wear glasses every day aren’t going to want to have pay the premium to get already expensive prescription lenses for what amounts to a novelty spy cam for Zuck.
The only tech I wanna wear on my face for an extended period of time are VR kits, but I’m mostly playing music games and I’ve been quite sedentary for a long while so I have to work back up to “extended periods of time” D:
Right now I’ve got a good half hour to an hour of high level play and I’m rekt. I used to be able to go for a few hours at least… I don’t think I could even do multiple hours of walking around Skyrim anymore.
My eye doctor gave me one of those as part of an eye exam once. I got nauseous after 30 seconds and had to call it off. I’m still annoyed about that.
Awwwh, I’m so sorry you had a bad experience D: that sucks ass! You really gotta ease your way into VR. I played short bursts of games that don’t require moving much until I got more comfy. Then I played moving-around games using a program called NaLo, which lets you swing your arms at your sides or in front of you to walk, which really helped me get used to ambulation! Now I’m totally comfy moving around smoothly, but it took some getting used to for sure.
Yup. I remember when cell phones first started creeping into life.
People used to get side-eye for interrupting in-person shit for taking a phone call - for example, when some asshole would get a call and start yammering away in a restaurant. At least among some people; lots of people will happily pick their nose in public and so on and so those people never even gave any kind of social niceties any thought, of course.
Same thing for when bluetooth headsets started coming on the scene. I realized things were fucked when some asshat wheeled up next to me at a urinal, apparently talking to himself, until I realize he’s yammering away on his headset while taking a piss.
And now for the past several years, yeah, some people get butthurt about “boomers” calling them if they are Gen X or younger or whatever, but still…it’s hard having a full conversation this day, involving eye contact with normal functioning adults without some interruptions while they start fiddling with their phone again to scroll endlessly or text someone who is not even present over some meaningless shit.
So yeah, I agree with you - the minute this has even a barely-passable use and hits some inflection point on price we are going to see this shit everywhere.
If they came up roughly with the rise of smartphones and social media I’d agree. But tons of people have realised the harm these companies can do, so they’re much less inclined to accept being recorded without consent nowadays.
Are these ‘tons of people’ in a room with us? User numbers are still growing across all big platforms.
This is like the fifth time this tech has been a thing, if HoloLens, Google Glass, and Vision Pro couldn’t find a niche this thing definitely won’t. I can remember when Sony had ones that used a CD-ROM Walkman for the display software and those were going to be on the head of every engine mechanic before the end of the 90s…
I actually see these quite often in the wild.
What I really want is a camera in my glasses that’s always loop recording like a dashcam so when my cat does something spontaneously cute I can clip that.
Of course, that’s probably impossible with current battery technology, and I’d want the app to be open source so I knew my glasses weren’t sending the footage to anyone else’s servers.
I also see a huge use to having a HUD in my glasses between navigation, reading chat during a livestream, watching videos while doing chores, but of course I won’t adapt that either unless an open source version becomes available.
I’m already wearing glasses on my face, might as well make them useful. I think I’d be willing to spend upwards of 1500USD on these frames if they did everything I mentioned at the bare minimum.
Tl;dr: I definitely want this product and see uses for it, but it also just isn’t there yet, let alone being made by any companies I’d buy from.
HoloLens is still a thing but for enterprise customers. Google Glass failed because it had no actual backing functionality - which isn’t an issue today as local translation and TTS/STT engines are good enough for real time translation.
Vision Pro was hardly a failure, and VR in general is still going strong.
This compared to all those devices is a simple camera, microphone and speakers in a pair of glasses. inexpensive at that. And it’s already quite widespread…
Vision Pro was hardly a failure
They’ve sold, in total, about 500k. It led to Apple effectively ending development for the device. By all accounts, it was a complete failure. With the price tag, it’s no wonder.
HoloLens was originally marketed to consumers along with what they called Windows Holographic, basically exactly what the Vision Pro tried to do a few years later. It’s been put on the shelf along with the original Surface (not to be confused with the unrelated Surface line of computers) which while yes is still a product line too it was also never the success they wanted it to be.
Google Glass connected to your phone the same way Meta’s do so I’m not sure what you mean by no backing.
Vision Pro is absolutely a failure, that’s why they’ve yet to release its sequel and canceled the other two versions. Vision Pro is not a VR headset it’s a spatial computing platform like HoloLens.
3D TVs were widespread too, they aren’t anymore. Just because something gets a killer feature doesn’t mean people will want it.
HoloLens was indeed marketed to consumers first. It failed (primarily because of pricing), and Microsoft shopped it around to enterprise clients, with MS releasing an updated version in 2019. You’re right that it was recently discontinued though.
With Google Glasses the primary use was supposed to be wearable computing. Not sure if you recall 2014, but back then, wearable tech was super limited in performance, and so were the phones it connected to… no chance of real time translation or even just subtitles… Which is, again, one of the main features today’s wearables target, beyond recording. Not to mention that the camera quality on the GG was ass. Useful for some minimal computer vision tasks but that’s it.
The Vision Pro literally got an upgrade, but in the ~3 years of its existence, wearable tech is going a different way, and Apple is going towards that (actual glass AR instead of headset), using the original AVP as a basis.
You know what else people said is going to be a fad?
- computers
- the internet, websites et al
- streaming
- smartphones
- native apps on phones
- laptops
article is from October, wonder if still works or was killed by an system update
