• Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    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.

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    comes with wifi/lidar to "monitor surroundings as home wifi has been shown to form a picture based on the singals around the wifi hotspot.

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    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.

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        That’s why I cut out the middle man. I place a screen at a predictable distance from my face all the time and let the cameras autofocus. AI makes everyone hot too.

        The ads are a bitch though, but the Ritalin I got from Hims helps.

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        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.

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          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”.

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        Anyone reading this there is still value in undermining the investment the conglomerate made in purchasing raybans.

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        2 days ago

        Noooo! Well, I tried. I can’t remember which I got, but not a brand I recognized. I’ll have to look them up

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      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

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    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?

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      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.

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    Great. Now I not only have to listen to other people in public talking on their phones but now talking to their glasses.

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    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?

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      15 hours ago

      Bad news, Apple is trying to figure out how to add cameras to airpods.

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      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)

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        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.

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          They don’t have to be sunglasses. Google glasses worked how many years ago.

          They are all non-critical things

          I mean, nothing strictly speaking is. But having hands-free screen actually opens some nice possibilities that holding a phone in your hand doesn’t afford.

          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.

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            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.

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              Also, Google glasses were just as creepy.

              I mean yeah, but again, remove a camera and it’s actually a very useful product for a very specific purpose.

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            Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.

            To make things worse.

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            I will say the point, it is an extension of your phone essentially. A very expensive, pointless, and ultimately creepy extension.

            It’s like buying a smart watch, so you can ask it stuff, and not use anything else it can do. When your phone can probably still listen to you perfectly fine.

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              I like to think my version is the truth. Like Zuck is trying to convince everyone that they look cool for real you guys, so that he can put the cameras back in later.

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    This is still surveillance, just with audio instead of video.

    But this actually creates a new problem: wearers of pervert glasses have plausible deniability. “Are you filming me?” “Who, me? Oh no, these ones don’t have cameras. Trust me”.

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    My favourite part of this is that Zuck was so out of ideas that he tried to reinvent Google Glass at great expense and is running into exactly the same social brick wall that project did.

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      To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.

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    It’s not even the glasses alone, it’s that it’s one more major part of the ENTIRE surveillance state that is growing around us. It is being sold to us as this great new future, but we are all very aware of what they really intend to do with it, which is enslave us in every way possible.

    They are denying it, of course, claiming that this will make our futures easier, and more fun, but we KNOW these people, and they are not interested in making our lives easier or more enjoyable. Just the opposite, in fact. They want us working every second of our miserable lives to increase their personal profits. To them, that’s ALL we are good for.

    To us, they have ALL the money and power. Let’s take that from them before they use it to kill everyone who resists them, because we all KNOW that’s what’s coming.