Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.
For me, I don’t find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!
No. I have no need for this piece of equipment. I don’t want to wear the internet on my face. We asked for hoverboards, holograms, and flying cars.
If they weren’t a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren’t owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.
Unless it can connect to my own server, no.
No, even if it were open source, I don’t want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.
I straight up think people might start making EMPs in response to these. Image your doctor has them, would you feel safe?
… like surveillance cameras and phones? These are quality bad, no?
Haven’t given too much thought to be fair. Taking video on the phone is much more obvious, while someone with camera glasses could make the excuse “I’m not recording!” and you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. For surveillance cameras, you could know where they are and evade, throw a rock, or drape something over them, whereas you’d have to go up and snatch the glasses off the wearer.
I also wouldn’t be against it if it were used legitimately to help with a disability, or for specific tasks like a HUD with vitals, etc when doing surgery. But for general use, I’m not comfortable.
No, the one is fixed position part of same building and the other does not collect data on other people around it.
Yet.
No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don’t want to be recorded.
somebody tried to bring them to our psych ward and argue that they needed them because they were prescription (in fairness they were but bruh). it was a shitshow.
Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?
I gotta wear glasses anyways so it’d be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.
But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn’t interesting.
I wear glasses as anyways and I’d love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I’d probably need a device to control it somehow too.
However, I wouldn’t want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and “updates” I didn’t ask for.
I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.
However, I’m pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I’ll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.
You can buy various HMDs that essentially mount to your existing glasses (I bought and fiddled about with one during the lockdown) and attach to any computer that supports USB. I haven’t looked into whether there are any wireless options now, but you could satisfy at least some of your desires with that kind of thing.
Thank you, I wasn’t aware
Happy to have helped!
Just in a dream scenario where they are
- Seamless, Not bulky
- GrapheneOS version for it
- Physical kill switch for mic, camera and sensors
- Tor routed, or VPN friendly
- Only open source software
- Environmental and Fair wages commitment
- 100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
- Up to date law for these technologies
I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.
100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
This needs to be mandatory due to its fragile nature.
I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it’d 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company’s servers. I’ve gotten used to my android phone that doesn’t have google play services, and I’ll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I’d like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I’d be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.
Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won’t be getting smart glasses any time soon
I kinda feel like big tech regrets that we got away with PCs running all foss software. The existence of GNU/Linux saved us in a way, I think some still try to lock us behind Windows I guess but Linux options are not going anywhere and they keep growing stronger I believe. However when it came to smartphones they tried so hard to keep them locked and far from what a natural computer would offer (running anything as long as your CPU architecture supports it). While Android phones got some freedom in the past I believe they’re getting more closed and harder to tweak. Also I was there when iOS jailbreak peaked with all the crazy stuff (it was still hard to switch OS though). Fast forward to smart watches, now these are far more locked than phones and very limited in terms of freedom (even tho some run standars CPUs architectures). I think no way would big tech allow glasses to have freedom and they would make them close to what watches offer these days, maybe worse. I really believe that we should be able to run whatever the hell we want on hardware as long as it is technically possible.
Tl; dr: GNU/Linux saved the PC industry, corpos will not let that happen again with another industry.
I wouldn’t use anything from Meta, no exceptions.
Oh awesome can’t wait to have my privacy invaded by every random yahoo dipshit tech bro fuckwad on the street with these bloody glasses. Love being recorded and logged for Zuckerberg’s data wank bank.
Won’t buy them, won’t interact with people who have them. Will cut off friendships over this, no problem.
When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.
See y’all in 2077
No
From meta? Not a chance unless there’s a way to completely free them from any meta related software.
Not from Meta for sure.
And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.
These are valid reasons that I’d consider getting one for myself. But big tech says fuck accessibility, let’s cram it full of bullshit instead. And that’s on top of the privacy concerns that they seem focused on shoving under the rug rather than making it obvious if someone’s using these.
