Meta along with Ray-Ban announced new smart glasses and the YT reviewers are praising it.

For me, I don’t find them particularly good and being a Meta product, it will be horrible for privacy. Also people can record others without their knowledge with these, hell no!

  • Squigglez@leminal.space
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    3 months ago

    I’ll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.

    I work a retail job where I’m staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I’m working.

    But until there are more of an “open source” type Smart Glasses that aren’t supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I’ll join the rest of y’all on staying far away from them.

    • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      There’s open source but not video capable. The Brilliant Labs Halo glasses coming in November are more of an informational companion with a peripheral-view display rather than a field of view overlay. So it’s not what you’re looking for now, but maybe a generation or two later it’ll meet your needs.

      • Squigglez@leminal.space
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        3 months ago

        That’s still really cool to hear though, definitely looking forward to see where that is in a few years.

      • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        No, none of this. It doesn’t matter if there are “good guys” versions. It shouldn’t be a thing at all because it never goes the good way. They’ll be bought out by Google or apple, and add in ads and tracking software. Or they’ll get big and change core values. Remember when googles motto was like, don’t be evil, or something like that? It definitely isn’t that anymore. There is no scenario where this kind of tech doesn’t turn bad.

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 months ago

        I wonder if a 3d printable frame could be possible with the lenses and SOC produced separately. Maybe it could be paired with a phone to offload the work.

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’ll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.

    However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.

    As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    In concept, they’re the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they’ll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
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    3 months ago

    The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don’t want it on my face.

    So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don’t see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

  • ksh@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Isn’t tech already creepy enough, how’s this going to make things better, I can see limited good uses cases as opposed to how it’s being used most of the time right now

  • StellarExtract@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    I’d love them, but like others have said, not if made by Meta, and not if they rely on sending all my data to cloud services to function.