Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera

Same, even though that's my favorite color :)

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”

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.

And a camera!

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

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.

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.

You gotta admit that's a huge market.

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.

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

One, there's only a couple of two party states. Two, that only applies to telecommunications. You can secretly record audio and video anywhere that it's legal to unsecretly record it.

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)

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

People are already wearing airpods and having LLM conversations.

So your telling me I can go into a mirror maze and not be so nervous? Psh, finally found a use case. Wait how much are they?... nevermind

They don't do AR anyway. They're just glasses with a camera, a mic, and headphones.

Well yeah. One lf the requirements of being a billionaire is having no shame.

The other requirement is sociopathy.

And also no vision. Dudes always been a late follower after the latest fad, hoping throwing crazy amount of money at it will compensate for being late to the party.

If he didn't have controlling ownership over the company, he'd have been booted out years ago.

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.

the only interesting version had a display.

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.

It's drastically different, wtf are you on about

And at least the pervs are advertising their spy cams so you can punch them.

Literally anything could be a hidden camera.

You can also take any flagship smartphone with a wide-angle lens and aim it down at 45 degrees, video content straight ahead, and unwarp/crop it in software. Ever since the advent of the smartphone camera, people have been voyureing.

It does make problems, it makes the creeps a little more brazen. There are assholes going on dates with that shit, and there are people defeating the camera light. It feels creepier to the masses because it's no longer surreptitious, but it's only not blaringly obvious like holding a phone up (which they wrongly assume voyeurs are doing.

Video is not legal in public in some countries. In Germany, for example, it is illegal to film people on the street.

If you're recording a building or something, and there are incidental people, that's fine, but with these glasses you're walking around pointing the camera directly at people.

Regardless, even where it's legal, most people wouldn't know how to recognize them. They're not obvious. Which is how people have gotten away with wearing them to film children changing, and the giveaway was that the guy was following and staring at the children, not the glasses. https://www.wcvb.com/article/mark-sullivan-new-charges-boston-common/73790219

it's how people are choosing to use it, it's more stealthly that most people think, they aren't THAT obvious, they really need some kind of very clear 'this is a recording camera' tell that can't be turned off, no one who wants to do legit things with it would care. like how you can't mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.