I’m out of the loop, what’s up with the glasses?
they are creep glasses with hidden cameras that record people in public and can use AI to identify people and find their social medias and shit at a glance.
supposed to have an LED that indicates when the cameras on, but there is a big underground industry of disabling the LED without disabling the camera so creepers can record without people knowing.
also facebook gets a copy of everything you see and do, which is especially problematic in bathrooms, in doctors offices, etc.
Big creepy pervert stalker stuff.
Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!
Fucking perverts
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.
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
Congratulations on joining Team Four-Eyes.
FYI, Ray Ban is just a brand name owned by the same company that owns most well known glasses brands.
Once you realize how consolidated the eyeglass industry is its a lot harder to find truly independent brands.
Noooo! Well, I tried. I can’t remember which I got, but not a brand I recognized. I’ll have to look them up
Anyone reading this there is still value in undermining the investment the conglomerate made in purchasing raybans.
Great. Now I not only have to listen to other people in public talking on their phones but now talking to their glasses.
Any stupid mofo wearing them Zuck specs, meet this kid:
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?
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)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.
These Meta glasses do have screens: https://www.meta.com/fi/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display/
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.
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.
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.
Wait, they don’t? What the fuck is the point then.
To make things worse.
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.
So if there’s no hud, and also no camera, Zuck is now just in the ugly sunglasses business?
They’re just impractical Bluetooth headphones.
“Oh, don’t worry, these are actually the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™. They’re actually pretty innovative! I can go off-grid while still feeling so connected to all my feeds! Instead of recording to the cloud, I can use my new Freedoms©®™ to record moments directly to my brain using the new Facebook BAM technology. Yup, these babies don’t have a single semiconductor, but Zuck still managed to somehow run Brain Access Memory on them! The best part is how cheap they are! Nearly half the price, and you get a 10% discount on their AI subscription since these glasses don’t actually transfer any data. But that subscription lets the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™ assist me with directly accessing memories whether the glasses were present or not! It’s a pretty sweet deal, if you really think about it.”
I don’t think this is going to sell well.
How’s it supposed to do Augmented Reality without a camera?
They don’t do AR anyway. They’re just glasses with a camera, a mic, and headphones.
But these also have display: https://www.meta.com/fi/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display/
You can actually thank Meta for wrecking AR for the foreseeable future, because AR glasses currently need cameras for position tracking, and Meta make sure everyone views the cameras as a threat.
So… Just glasses with headphones in them?
the only interesting version had a display.
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.
To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.
So… Glasses?
No. Glasses with always-on microphones, internet connectivity and logging everything anyone is doing themselves + the people around them. So not much better than the current ones.
Not unless your normal glasses do all this: “The camera-free glasses, code-named Luna, will still feature an array of six microphones to allow users to speak to the company’s AI chatbot and its recently-released AI assistant, called Muse. They’ll presumably pick up audio from users’ environments as well, where bystanders may not be aware of the eavesdropping.”
What I love about the internet sometimes is that the literal thought that I had - the literal comment, character for character - I wanted to make is already here.
People this fucking stupid shouldn’t have this much wealth and power
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”.
Don’t forget logging every Bluetooth and WiFi device (mobile and hardwired) with location and timestamp and sending it all to meta for “tailoring ads”
Kinda makes a body want to figure out some sort of RPi+battery+automated exploit doodad to throw in one’s backpack to confuse/brick/pwn the creeperShades
BLE spam is already a functionality of the Flipper Zero but I’m not sure how much it actually hinders the data harvesters
Yep, it’s just meant to muddy the waters. Pretty common tactic, especially from these big tech companies.
I think the new problem is exactly what they want to achieve.
I think so too.
