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Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes (hackaday.com)
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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (35 children)

For me at least, the killer feature is going to be tagging faces with names. Face blindness sucks.

Edit: For the downvoters, in case you're unaware, I'm talking about a real life disability.

Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, is a condition where individuals cannot recognize familiar faces, including their own, despite having normal vision and intellectual function. It can be congenital (present from birth), developmental, or acquired due to brain damage from injury, stroke, or disease. People with prosopagnosia rely on other cues like voice, hair, or clothing to identify people.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (16 children)

And that's also the main reason I don't want these to exist. I don't want to be identified by random people, and I especially don't want police to have access to something like this. People I spend time with know who I am, and I'm fine missing out on random same place/same time coincidences with people I knew from high school or something.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'd want them to use a local database that you've created. After you've met someone, the glasses could be like "remember this person?" and you could choose to save them or not, or something like that.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Its meta so they'll get their hands on that data the way peoples numbers end up in metas hands despite not having a Facebook account because people gave the app permission to contacts.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about a Meta made pair of glasses. I would never buy those due to the privacy issues. I'm talking about a potential pair of glasses that are open source, or at least privacy focused, and don't phone home.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Average people will have it phone home for convenience. Just how things play out. I think the tech is cool, but not looking forward to how it'll be utilized in the end.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, not looking forwards to being in Meta (or any other massive company)'s database or whatever when a friend or family member wears one of these.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Like VR, meta's will probably be the best priced and have the best tech on top of it for the price, so end up getting the most market share too.

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