Oh shit, people think we’re creepy like flock. Let’s do what flock is working towards and drop the camera and move towards EVERY OTHER FORM OF FUCKING TRACKING AND SELLING DATA.
comes with wifi/lidar to "moniter surroundings.
I don’t get the hate, I don’t have a set but for action sports and stuff these seem great. Video is legal in public and it’s not hard to spot camera glasses
Video is not legal in public in some countries. In Germany, for example, it is illegal to film people on the street.
If you’re recording a building or something, and there are incidental people, that’s fine, but with these glasses you’re walking around pointing the camera directly at people.
Regardless, even where it’s legal, most people wouldn’t know how to recognize them. They’re not obvious. Which is how people have gotten away with wearing them to film children changing, and the giveaway was that the guy was following and staring at the children, not the glasses. https://www.wcvb.com/article/mark-sullivan-new-charges-boston-common/73790219
it’s how people are choosing to use it, it’s more stealthly that most people think, they aren’t THAT obvious, they really need some kind of very clear ‘this is a recording camera’ tell that can’t be turned off, no one who wants to do legit things with it would care. like how you can’t mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.
like how you can’t mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.
Except by downloading any of hundreds of camera apps. The only non-mutable sound is on the phone’s native camera.
You can also take any flagship smartphone with a wide-angle lens and aim it down at 45 degrees, video content straight ahead, and unwarp/crop it in software. Ever since the advent of the smartphone camera, people have been voyureing.
It does make problems, it makes the creeps a little more brazen. There are assholes going on dates with that shit, and there are people defeating the camera light. It feels creepier to the masses because it’s no longer surreptitious, but it’s only not blaringly obvious like holding a phone up (which they wrongly assume voyeurs are doing.
I wonder what the fallout from all this failed voyerism tech will be? What unexpected uses will we find for this spy shit? Ruview already looks like an interesting alternative to mmWave security sensors. What else can we come up with?
If it wasn’t going through their servers, i could stand to use it for drone flights, augmented reality GPS directions, monitoring shit at work, I’d not even pull my phone out of my pocket if I could get away wiht it.
No camera but echo location like Rocky from Project Hail Mary
Just glass
They’re just turning them into sunglasses lol! I’m sure they’ll find a way to make lense shading a subscription though.
I’m out of the loop, what’s up with the glasses?
they are creep glasses with hidden cameras that record people in public and can use AI to identify people and find their social medias and shit at a glance.
supposed to have an LED that indicates when the cameras on, but there is a big underground industry of disabling the LED without disabling the camera so creepers can record without people knowing.
also facebook gets a copy of everything you see and do, which is especially problematic in bathrooms, in doctors offices, etc.
Big creepy pervert stalker stuff.
Fucking perverts
Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!
You gotta admit that’s a huge market.
Great. Now I not only have to listen to other people in public talking on their phones but now talking to their glasses.
Went to get glasses and made a big point of avoiding Ray Bands for taking Facebook money to make pervert glasses. Hoping it’s not the first time they’ve heard that.
I do actually like the classic nerd look of their glasses, but yeah, fuck that.
I had to get glasses for the first time, and the first ones i liked, just by looking at 1000 glasses and being completely lost were ray bens. I made an audible eew and kept looking. The lady was probably a bit confused
FYI, Ray Ban is just a brand name owned by the same company that owns most well known glasses brands.
Once you realize how consolidated the eyeglass industry is its a lot harder to find truly independent brands.
I not only have to pay to see, but I have also to pay huge markups for it??? Fucking hell.
It was always weird to me how expensive glasses and lenses were, now I’m just pissed at being right.
Yep. I go to Costco now because I’m blind in one eye so the correction is only for the other eye. Costco only charges me 50% of the normal lens cost and the blind eye just gets a balance lens (weight matched to the other without correction).
I’ve walked out with a brand new pair of lenses and frames for $30 after my eye “insurance”.
Noooo! Well, I tried. I can’t remember which I got, but not a brand I recognized. I’ll have to look them up
Anyone reading this there is still value in undermining the investment the conglomerate made in purchasing raybans.
Why do you need glasses at all for a version with no camera? Can’t someone just wear earbuds in that case? Can’t someone’s regular bluetooth (or even tethered) earbuds just talk to the phone in their pocket to do everything?
A glasses with a display were always my dream. But with actually good controls, which it looks like the current iteration of pervert glasses actually have, it’s more than I ever dreamed for. You can display a minimap there, you can do some media control, display relevant info if you’re working on something, speaker’s notes when you do the presentation, the possibilities are numerous.
If there will be a distinct version without a camera I might actually consider overcoming my hate for Zuck’s bullshit (but more probably I’ll wait for zuckless version)I know it is your dream. But, doing a presentation while wearing sunglasses indoor doesn’t exactly transmit humanity, connection nor empathy. I would nope out of that presentation. Everything else is just an app. They are all non-critical things, they don’t require a HUD.
Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.
They don’t have to be sunglasses. Google glasses worked how many years ago.
Anyways, that’s irrelevant because meta glasses don’t have screens. So, no AR functionality.
Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.
Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.
To make things worse.
To be a creepy perv. It was obvious since first revealed.
Also, Google glasses were just as creepy. Thy worked in the technical sense. Complete social and market failure though.
So if there’s no hud, and also no camera, Zuck is now just in the ugly sunglasses business?
They’re just impractical Bluetooth headphones.
Any stupid mofo wearing them Zuck specs, meet this kid:
I don’t think this is going to sell well.
