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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 195 points 3 weeks ago (49 children)

good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they've invested in tech that most people don't want 😌

[–] andresil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (48 children)

It's funny, I would love to some have the novel tech they developed (HUD / display built into glasses since I'm wearing them anyways). The problem, as usual, is corps taking the piss with prices and profit then spying on you and everyone around you non-stop anyways....

I would 100% be open to some HUD glasses delivered with a FOSS OS that works completely offline and/or via your phone (but still offline). But that's seriously wishful thinking given our corporate and political overlords

[–] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (41 children)

I can't think of anything I would want to have pop up in my view. I have a phone to hand all day, and the notifies me of important things.

Can you think of anything that you actually want so see constantly or so immediately you can't pull a phone out of your pocket?

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

As someone with auditory processing disorder, the only thing i want is real-time closed captions of whoever is talking to me.

[–] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

This, this is a really good answer. Thanks for bringing it up.

[–] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh that would be nice.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that and where sounds are coming from

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

I have raging tinnitus, If a model could properly filter out background noise and give me CC I would be super stoked.

[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

IRL subtitles is a great idea

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