The secret camera glasses for creeps that everyone said ‘men will use this to take creepy secret pictures of people?’ is getting used to take secret pictures for creeps? I think this is obviously just misusing this vital technology which we must have, and that’s why we’re ‘inventing’ it again even though last time failed because everyone wearing them got punched for secretly recording creepy pictures.
The glasses unfortunately do have cool uses for disabled people. There’s a lot of research going on at a university near me about implementing LLMs and vision AI into them to provide the likes of real time subtitles for the hearing impaired and realtime environment description for the visually impaired. They absolutely should be regulated into the ground in their current iteration as creep glasses though.
Another ethical use would be recording cops and ICE on the sly
Unlike being a sexpest, I imagine this is actually something Meta would ban the device’s users from doing.
I know a local ice watcher that has been using them, so far no ban. Although I wouldn’t doubt Meta will work with ice/cops when it comes to prosecution
Fuck, real life subtitles would be so useful
I wear glasses with basically one of the lightest prescriptions you can possibly get because it started to affect my work, and I gotta say, real time subtitles in my lenses would be fuckin rad
Are you staring at my chest?
It’s subtitles I swear!
No, I’m looking below them because Mark Zuckerberg told me that they could see subtitties.
my subtitles are up here
Me glancing:
Glasses subtitles: bouncing
This is what really bugs me with technology like this. I have some memory issues where I can’t immediately recall details sometimes, so forget things like names. Something like these glasses with a non shitty version of Facebook would be amazing for me.
Imagine walking down the street and seeing someone you know, and a little window pops up with some relevant information that they’ve chosen to share with you. It could have their name and a few lines of other information, like saying that their birthday is a few days away, or their kid’s and partner’s names.
Instead we’ve got the shittiest version possible where they just suck in as much data as possible to sell to other shitty companies 😤
I also have memory issues leading to me forgetting names and that sounds like an invasive, inhuman, and awkward way to live.
hello… Carl. Are you excited for your son’s birthday?
How did you know it was my son’s birthday
oh haha my glasses just popped up a bunch of facts about you
oh. Okay. I have to go.
No on cares if you forget their name. But if you start bringing up shit that they posted about on Facebook it’s going to get awkward.
Well, yeah, if you talk to someone like they’re a stranger it’s going to sound awkward. I already know my friend’s names and details about their families, because we’re friends. I’m not thinking of approaching random people in the street and spouting private details of their lives…
The reason I said that it would have information that they chose to share is for precisely that - they’ve actively chosen to share that information with you in particular. An actual conversation between friends would be more like
Hey stranger, long time no see (slightly silly intro between friends, assuming the info hasn’t loaded yet). How’ve you been?
Yeah, not bad thanks. Busy with the kids, but all good (hopefully by now everything’s loaded)
I can imagine. How’s Kelly (one of the kids) finding school? Is she excited for her birthday?
Oh, she hasn’t stopped talking about it. I’m dreading having a house full of overexcited kids in the house for her party, but she’s really looking forward to it.
Yeah, I don’t envy you for that! (Both laugh, because as much as dads love our kids, birthday parties are hard work). Anyway, I’ve got to go. Nice to see you again Carl, good luck with the party
Much more organic when you have an actual conversation with a friend and don’t just randomly spout facts at someone 👍
Wow who could have foreseen this coming from the guy who built this: “Facemash” was a website designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students.
/s
manfluencers
the internet was a mistake
they call short influencers minfluencers
Normalize calling these people glassholes once again.
normalize ripping this shit off of people’s faces and crushing it on the pavement
Ah I forgot all about glassholes.
It’s not secret, though. Meta knows what they did and could respond.
At least Google Glass was very obtrusive had a big, obvious light that came on when the camera was active
The Khmer Rouge regime targeted individuals they considered intellectuals, and wearing glasses became a symbol that often led to execution, as it was associated with education and knowledge. While not an official policy, many people who wore glasses were persecuted during this time
They were fifty years too early. /s
Granted this is rumor transmitted by refugees at the thailand-cambodia border. There is no hard evidence that this happened iirc. Though it is funny for its absurdity.
Wow looks like I have ANOTHER reason to immediately dislike and be suspicious of anyone wearing this bullshit
It’s Google glass all over again.
I bet you can detect these things by bluetooth MAC address
I want to imagine a hacker that makes these overlay goatse onto the screens
Wouldn’t even need to hack them. Just say OK GOOGLE! goatse dot cx
But I want it at least burnt into the screen, if not their stupid tech creep retinas
imagine having a casual interaction with a stranger and then getting like 100 stalkers a week later. Very healthy societyEvery time I imagine some hell these people create there is some vector I wasn’t keen to and it’s sex pest men.
Like I already hated the idea of some tech dork scanning faces for fuck knows what end - not a good one I say that confidently.
This is shit icing on shit cake
Sex pest society
I thought that was aoc
