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It feels like there is an active war between sane people who don't want fucking cameras staring at them and looking them up on facebook and the revenge porn sites... and "content creators" who want to normalize wearing the thing they are getting sponsorships for because it makes it easier for them to record shopping spree videos (see, kiwi farms own, Linus Tech Tips).
It does bother me a bit since stuff like the xreal are getting caught in the crossfire. But, let's be real, people were just watching porn on flights with those so it is PROBABLY not a great loss for the sickos who plugged those into their steam decks or gameboys.
only a matter of time until they come out with a chip that can record whatever your eyes see directly by intercepting their signals to the brain. Have fun with that one, descendents
Meanwhile commenter Ken's on the prowl.
I started seeing these a few years ago at my optician; all I could think was all the privacy issues they were going to cause.
I for sure will get downvoted for this. But the glasses are not the problem, it's the potential misuse. There are actually lots of applications where augmented reality comes in handy, as for example heads up information related to instructions, or, for example, in a much earlier time, people with, e.g., autism, got a feedback with an emoji, what the mood of the other person was. Or, for example, reading sign language without having thousands of hours spent on that. There are so many useful applications and people are just censoring the technology like they would censor the way now it's mandatory to check for ID's. I really get the idea, that mass surveillance is bad. No discussion about that. But cameras can be used in a good way. The problematic thing is, that you don't really can't tell if somebody is recording you or just using it neatly. But that's the same with smartphones. Everytime somebody is holding his/her smartphone up, doing something, I also think "is he/she recording me right now? Nah, it's probably just used properly..."
Are these Meta glasses even AR? AFAIK they are just regular glasses/sunglasses with a camera, mic, and headphones in them so you can listen to music, record video, and use voice controls with your smartphone. There's no display.
I think these would be really cool to stream my scooter rides to my friends but I would probably buy an off brand because I don't trust the weird AI glasses
Camera mounted to your helmet probably works just as well and also might be a deterrent to drivers who might otherwise try to murder you (because you could record them in the attempt)! In that context having a visible camera is probably a good thing.
...I hate that that has to be a thing but yeah.
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best news to open lemmy to 😂
Only two comments on the article and one of them is most definitely a pervert.
I'm all down for smart glasses, I just don't want anything megacorp on them. If they are to have mics and cams, I want those for AR and voice commands, not to stream me taking to piss to creepy Zuck and his pervert friends.
when did mitch mcconnel appear.