cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52022727
Actually made me giggle
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12 hoursOh shit, people think we’re creepy like flock. Let’s do what flock is working towards and drop the camera and move towards EVERY OTHER FORM OF FUCKING TRACKING AND SELLING DATA.
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish10 hours
comes with wifi/lidar to "monitor surroundings as home wifi has been shown to form a picture based on the singals around the wifi hotspot.
I wonder what the fallout from all this failed voyerism tech will be? What unexpected uses will we find for this spy shit? Ruview already looks like an interesting alternative to mmWave security sensors. What else can we come up with?
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish12 hours
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.
Exactly. Once they give up on it we’ll see copycat tech without their restrictions.
- Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish14 hours
I don’t get the hate, I don’t have a set but for action sports and stuff these seem great. Video is legal in public and it’s not hard to spot camera glasses
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
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
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish12 hours
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.
- Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish12 hours
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.
like how you can’t mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.
Except by downloading any of hundreds of camera apps. The only non-mutable sound is on the phone’s native camera.
- lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!
- CluelessCalls@lemmy.worldEnglish23 hours
They’re just turning them into sunglasses lol! I’m sure they’ll find a way to make lense shading a subscription though.
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.
- LilB0kChoy@reddthat.comEnglish1 day
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.
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.
- tigermountain@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Great. Now I not only have to listen to other people in public talking on their phones but now talking to their glasses.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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?
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Bad news, Apple is trying to figure out how to add cameras to airpods.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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)- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- Nalivai@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
- dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
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.
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.
- 1 day
To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.
