Big Brother strapped to your fucking face.
Id quite like a HUD instead of a smart phone.
Way to sweaty.
Invasion of the privacy snatchers.
Genuinely, every person who participated in creating this should be taken out to an island and dumped there, to be forgotten about.
This is vile.
As someone whose taught a fair number of undergrad classes, my nightmare scenario is a student showing up to an exam wearing one of these fucking things. When I tell them to take the damn things off, they then might protest saying they have prescription lenses and that they’re the only way they can take the exam.
Can’t it just be in the requirement of the exam? If they have connected glasses, they have to remove them for the duration of the exam and use them only after leaving the room. If they are spotted with them, they get disqualified instantly?
Edit: IMHO the accessibility argument would not stand for a written exam as those glasses are often used to transcribe audio. If it’s written there is nothing to transcribe thus is not required. Those glasses are also more expensive than the non connected one so economically speaking if they can afford these glasses, they sure can afford the non connected ones. If they don’t have a pair of non connected glasses they have to plan ahead of the exam which typically happens weeks if not months after the beginning of the semester so it’s on them to plan accordingly.
TL;DR: forbid them in school ToS.
Who would buy them in first place
My boss, he owns a pair and is trying to convince our chief operations manager to get pairs for the whole department so we can take pictures of our work.
We already get a bonus on our pay stubs for having our phones available so we all find this dumb.
Not the good guys.
So I know what to look for in the future for people to avoid, the glasses apparently look like this:
I’m going to refuse to talk to people unless they take them off and shut them down first.
I won’t even give them the option to take them off. If I see someone wearing them I had intended to interact with, I’ll keep on walking by and ignore the person.
Thats the wayfarer model, you’ll never be able to tell, theyre too common
You’re missing the details:
Regular wayfarer on the left has the small oval (sometimes chrome) accent. AI wayfarer on the right as the round black camera lenses.
You’re going up close to every person you see with wayfarers to check the corner for a small oval? The details are too small to matter from a distance.That’s what I’m trying to say.
There will likely be other models or brands where you can’t even rely on the distinction you’re trying to make here.
It’s looking bleak.
You’re going up close to every person you see with wayfarers to check the corner for a small oval? The details are too small to matter from a distance.That’s what I’m trying to say.
No. If I’m walking up to someone intending to interact with them, that is close enough to see the lenses. Upon identifying those, I will elect instead to not interact with that person and keep on walking by.
The details are too small to matter from a distance.That’s what I’m trying to say.
And putting Ray Ban on the “never buy a fucking thing from” list.
Ray Ban’s parent company is going to have AI glasses from all of the companies they own. I was boycotting Ray Ban up until I learned that it’s really fucking difficult to find prescription sunglasses big enough for my giant head that can accommodate my very strong prescription and Ray Ban had the only pair that I could find.
Also throwing out Zenni as an option. I’m on the verge of coke bottle sized lenses and can find many frames from them.
Have you tried Warby Parker? I’ve been using them for prescription sunglasses for years with decent success and I’m blind as a bar without lenses.
You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there
That’s 99% of eyeglasses in the US and Canada
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Not Costco tho!
Or most of the online only stores.
Who would have thought that people don’t want to be recorded without their knowledge or consent?
This would be a huge setback to anyone even remotely concerned about privacy.
Yeah, this is understandable but like, where were these people who are up in arms two decades ago? The ship has sailed. Walk around in any store, mall, shopping center, urban area… But no, all those recording devices are to keep me “safe”. But glasses, now that’s too far.
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There’s a huge difference between a somewhat stationary surveillance camera and a hidden personal camera that films 24/7 without an indicator.
I fail to see the difference. Actually, if anything, I’d make the argument that it’s less invasive. Sure, the one person can be a stalker or whatever, and the camera company can be acting in bad faith, but they’d have to find you and maintain visual contact all day. The moment you step/drive onto a roadway, you’re being tracked, and you have already lost the battle. Sometimes, you don’t even need to leave your home. I’m from the states so this example is from that perspective.
Every intersection, at the very least capture your face, vehicle, direction of travel - and none of which have indications that they are recording you. When you stop for fuel, you have cameras from dozens of perspectives outside at the pumps and inside paying, watching you fuel up, get a snack. Getting back on the road, a cop passes you, and an automated license plate reader records where and when your vehicle was seen. When you enter your workplace, cameras. When you get groceries, the parking lot is littered with them, the store interior using them to track thefts, customer profiling, what items you pick up but set back down on the shelves. When you pull into your driveway, your neighbor across the street who has a ring doorbell detects you getting out of your car and notes the event. And on top of all the innocent use cases, with just a little effort, you’ve now been pulled into a dragnet search for an investigation because your phone was connected to the same tower as XYZ while they committed a homicide, a block away while you were getting your groceries. But now your movements for the past month are scooped up in a database, scrutinized and picked through with a magnifying glass. Looking for a reason, any reason, to nail you and hundreds of others caught up in this investigation, with anything they can find in their pursuit of the attacker. You, you are just a bonus to them.
I don’t like either, to be clear, but I’d take the one camera on someone’s face vs the thousands of networked cameras you pass - and likely don’t even notice - every single day. Unfortunately, the agencies and companies that installed those cameras are quite indifferent to my feelings regarding them. Funny how that works.
Like I said, the ship has sailed.
Who would have thought that people wouldn’t want to be surveilled?? What the fuck?? Why???
Greed and sadism.
Because they thought everyone knew they are already doing that.
I mean, we pay hundreds of monies every 2-4 years for the privilege of carrying the latest version of a device that does most of this already.
Record Everything Constantly
Which camera glasses have all-day battery life? 🤔
Acceptable for the blind only
That’s why I will wait until buying them.
“AI-powered”. That alone should turn everyone off
Makes me paranoid now to go out.
My neighbor has several security cameras in front, covering the parking lot, the sidewalk in front of the building, and the unit entry doors. We live in apartments. Our doors are clustered in the same area, so anything that can see his door can also see my door and our other neighbors’ doors.
I absolutely hate it. I can’t even throw the goddamn trash out without feeling watched.
I’ve been like that for many, many years.
imagine passing everything you see in life to openai api
worse, meta ai api
