Oh - I love this angle!!!
Spread the word bros! I'll only call them pervert glasses from now on
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I’ve never met a pervert that didn’t embrace that name.
Anyone wearing those are absolutely being a perv and playing dumb about it. Apple will probably come out with those next, and push them just like they have air pods so that they'll have a camera to go with their always active mics! Fucking drives me nuts when people act like they're so technologically savvy by using siri to call people on the phone.
I've had to inform all my boomer/genx peeps that have one about how they send video footage back even when you aren't recording. Instances like people just putting the glasses down on their bedside table and some meta contractor ends up seeing your wife get dressed after a shower.
My beef, what about underage users?? Let's say a high schooler gets frisky with his gf?? A kid at my kid's school was bragging about using his glasses for school work, and they were joking about taking a poop, etc then a kid joked about walking into the girls bathroom with them on.. Idk man, so many problems with them!!
One of the police officers was using it when I was in highschool, even in the restrooms I think.
Don’t forget…Facefuck was found by a massive letch/perv.
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The thing is, I'd love glasses with a private display. Imagine walking around a strange city with maps displayed in your vision, or giving a talk and having your notes in your view. Specs with screens! But why would I also want a camera? If I wanted to photograph something I can use my phone - perhaps using my SpecScreen as a viewfinder, sure, but the camera can happily live in my phone still. Basically, I'm worried the perverts are going to ruin glasses with HUDs for the rest of us. There must be dozens of us non-perverts, surely?
There are plenty of legit use cases for a camera. Traveling in a foreign place the glasses could overlay text in your language. Looking at a transit table it could highlight the correct route and time. And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.
And anytime you meet someone new it could store their name and face in a database.
Enough of this dystopian bullshit! Or was that satire?
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does that utility outweigh the privacy of the public though?
Shame it's meta because the answer will always skew towards invading privacy and shitting on the others.
Exactly. Navigating a city isn't really that hard from a phone, even if you don't speak the language. You don't need to be staring at it the whole time if you learn how to just orient yourself on a street grid. Having a HUD for that purpose might be a neat trick, but not at the expense of being constantly recorded.
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one of the leaked "test" features that everyone hated was the facial recognition...and i get it. lot's of opertunity for abuse. Shame though as that would be SO usfull to those with prosopagnosia or people like me who have an inability to remember names. It has hurt me profesionaly throughout my life. having the name and a few relivent facts about people pop up would just put me on the same playing field with those who can remember.
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I'd wear them if they didn't have a camera - the idea of a little screen and the music/phone call capabilities baked into something I have to wear every waking moment anyways actually sounds really nice. I'd probably turn off the display after the novelty wore off, but the audio alone is still worth it to me.
yeah the camera is the troublesome part. Thing is it is useful for camera tracking.
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The Even G2 is screen, audio and no camera. https://www.evenrealities.com/products/g2-a
I've never heard of these, will check them out
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Do you truly believe that those who have sold you your mechanical eyes have resisted the temptation to peek through them? Cameras are all around us, even within us! Your joys, your worries, your life... for them it is all mere spectacle. - Garry the Prophet
The prevalence of negative impacts is absolutely a reason to push back on these specific glasses.
Due to aphantasia and ADHD, I would love to be able to manually record and store locally what I am seeing in a wide variety of situations. That guy I talked to about the thing? What was his name and what did he look like? All I remember is he had curly hair and he had a common name. Being able to play back the introduction would let me refresh myself to keep up with people who remember a large number of names and faces in a short period of time. If I do something like work on my PC being able to record as I go without needing to set up the phone on a stand and hope I don't block it would be great.
Yeah, the negatives outweigh the positives and fuck meta for using what could be a great assistance device to collect everything they interact with instead of it being a locally stored thing that decent people could use.
this is the problem with great tech, it can be used for valid purposes like yours, or for nefarious purposes, and the maker doesn't fuckin care.
if this was a product made by a reputable company I'd say go for it, but considering their wretched history of invasive garbage, I'd hold out for a better take.
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You know what there should be a pull-down menu option on all phones called, "Radius" and it puts up a censored image over you like a box or a blur that can not be removed by any smart glasses wearer but can be removed by LEO's if needed. It could use the compasses proximity sensor and identify smart glasses in the area. Could be a nice addition to Android or Graphene.
That’s impossible. The information is already gathered, you could just be sending a beacon out saying “please don’t process this”.
What’s to stop them from ignoring that?
Better yet the glasses should just blur any human or replace them with an avatar.
Literally a black mirror episode
I was calling them "stalker" glasses. Everything facebook (meta) does is about stalking humanity. Creepy, creepy weirdos.
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second comment: I wouldn't doubt that there's a large percentage of perverted individuals using smart glasses, every time there's a technological advanced way to capture images of people without their consent, there will be creeps and perverts using that technology for fucked up purposes and if they know they can get away with it they'll do it. Best example, the police emergency response system went down and they couldn't take 911 calls for like 6 hours or something like that and my fiance and I were at the beach and some random guy with a telescopic lens starts taking pictures of kids on the beach. There was an area wide or I think it was actually the whole state that went down for a few hours might've been 3 hours but still!!!! The moment that emergency text went out to everyone who was able to get it , the moment you saw crime rise for 3 hours. I saw 4 drug deals and that creep taking pictures of kids when I was at the beach because people knew they could get away with it.
I'll take shit that didn't happen for 47 cents, Trebek
Was Revere beach in Massachusetts fuck I forget if it was two years ago by now but the police weren't able to respond to anything for like 3 hours. We got the text at the beach. I had to look it up I'm a pothead with a fucked up sense of time. It happened in June of 2024 for 2 hours. I'll never forget it because it sociologically showed that if people genuinely think can get away with crime, they'll attempt a crime.
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article is already a decade too late. I’ve perceived them as pervert glasses for years!
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Don't call them that!
Slandering the innocent perverts of the world by association with Facebook isn't gonna make 'em quit marketin spookware to assholes who oughta know better. =U
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You either get bought by Google as a start up, or live long enough to see yourself make all of Google's mistakes.