Remember, when Google glasses came out, users were asked to leave restaurants and other public venues, and otherwise bothered by people who didn't want to be filmed, so often that the product flopped massively and was shelved. We can do it again. I believe in our collective power to be annoying. - ThreadSky

varinajr.bsky.social • 164 days ago

Remember, when Google glasses came out, users were asked to leave restaurants and other public venues, and otherwise bothered by people who didn't want to be filmed, so often that the product flopped massively and was shelved. We can do it again. I believe in our collective power to be annoying.

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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the precious iteration.

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robeagle.bsky.social•163 days ago

Dark sunglasses and a hat.. always useful.

lauowolf.bsky.social•164 days ago

I also think they underestimate how little people want to walk around in weird not-glasses
Glasses suck
(... sorry, I had eye surgery and now need glasses for the first time and I hate them
They pinch my fingers, they fog up, I lose them)

fasterandworse.com•164 days ago

I reckon the people who *want* these things are probably borderline unbearable in public venues already

mskidchaos.bsky.social•164 days ago

I vote for accidentally throwing/spitting water in their faces. I wonder how they'll fare in the rain? 🤔

zoonie.bsky.social•164 days ago

Hopefully, and rationally, it'll go about as well as you can imagine!
Plus, if it starts raining, any weirdos wearing them as voyeurs will take them off, thus outing themselves. Wearing glasses in the rain is a royal pain in the arse.

mskidchaos.bsky.social•164 days ago

Glasses in the rain are awful. These could have the added benefit of

fasterandworse.com•164 days ago

Oh, Hi Mansi!

mskidchaos.bsky.social•160 days ago

Well that was quick https://bsky.app/profile/josephcox.bsky.social/post/3l5ju2ad44m2o

fasterandworse.com•160 days ago

Early adopters setting the tone

mskidchaos.bsky.social•164 days ago

bennettelder.net•164 days ago

Well we already know they can’t handle seltzer water.

artoriusfox.bsky.social•163 days ago

a punch would also solve it

zbk.bsky.social•164 days ago

I wonder if these glasses have good IR filters on the cameras.

Infrared LEDs are cheap and it wouldn't be that hard to create some small, wearable device to blind the sensors.

wicked-lizzie.bsky.social•164 days ago

I don't understand how this works of you already wear glasses. 🤣

marlo.ooo•164 days ago

see the thing is i love the idea of camera glasses sometimes for like, filming something from my exact POV now and again, but i want the glasses to be as “dumb” as possible. i want it to have an SD card slot and no wifi or bluetooth. that would be genuinely fun

shadefawks.bsky.social•164 days ago

See I wouldn't mind features like being able to translate on the fly, would be great for international travel, or a hud for directions on foot.

But companies want too much for that kind of features. And Glassholes would ruin it.

marlo.ooo•164 days ago

smart technology rocks when it isn’t also just surveillance

natanael.bsky.social•164 days ago

Yeah, I REALLY want something like Live view in Google maps in some AR glasses. Directions overlayed on top of the world around me, like arrows along the street. Plus easier remote control of devices around me, finding stuff, etc...

But everything is designed to be dependent on some corporation...

satyric.bsky.social•164 days ago

Given what we know about what Meta has done with the data we already give them, I am vehemently against allowing them to passively gather anything else from our lives for any reason

marlo.ooo•164 days ago

oh same i just like the concept of stylish frames that can take video that aren’t connected to the internet

satyric.bsky.social•164 days ago

There are hundreds of kinds of these right now, looks like they range from about $50-$700. 🙂

teotastic.bsky.social•163 days ago

A problem might be that Google glasses were pretty obvious even across a restaurant but would you be able to tell if the raybans the person is wearing are regular or meta?

shadefawks.bsky.social•164 days ago

It didn't help that people wearing them were clueless "What do you mean I can't wear a camera on my face while going into a movie theater?"

24bibi.bsky.social•164 days ago

#PeoplePower‼️👍👍👍

jothehat.bsky.social•164 days ago

Happy to see the Meta glasses fall in a black hole, but there are people with sight loss using head/spectacle-mounted cameras to make the world easier to navigate. Let's be sure not to throw them under the bus while protecting privacy and punishing Zuckerberg!

jothehat.bsky.social•164 days ago

If you think you can always tell if someone has sight loss, I guarantee you can't.

yjeanrenaud.bsky.social•164 days ago

but you may ask, don't you? something by the line of "excuse me please, but do you happen to wear a camera on your glasses eventually? and why is that?"

shadefawks.bsky.social•164 days ago

Depends, ADA is very strict for businesses. Even for people bringing in dogs all you can ask if you suspect it isn't a service dog is "Is that a service animal? What service do they provide?"

Which is more to protect people with ACTUAL disabilities.

jothehat.bsky.social•164 days ago

I'm not going to answer for other people, beyond saying you would not believe the rude questions that blind and partially sighted people already have to put up with from strangers, and that you might want to bear that in mind. Also this sort of tech is pretty obvious and not hidden.

yjeanrenaud.bsky.social•164 days ago

that is true. Well, maybe we all should be more kind and thoughtful. So I might just not ask someone about their devices. I have seen such products just recently at a store and thought it's a nice idea. But it's a difficult thing, isn't it? one one hand, we got the bigTech privacy invasion gadget

yjeanrenaud.bsky.social•164 days ago

on the other hand, we got these tools that really aim to help someone. It reminded me of the App "Be My Eyes".

yjeanrenaud.bsky.social•164 days ago

on the other hand, I have met an architect who uses the meta glasses to show its customers the progress of the constructions. I was wondering why a simple video recorded with the smartphone would could do the same job and not spill all data and the faces of workers to Zuck's empire without consent.

jenk3.bsky.social•163 days ago

You know what white canes are for, right?

jothehat.bsky.social•163 days ago

I do. But a white cane can't read a print menu to you, or a departures board, or a directions sign. This tech can (the Meta glasses are not a patch on tech designed for use by blind and partially sighted people, hence why I'm happy for them to fall in a black hole).

jenk3.bsky.social•163 days ago

I know. I've been listening to a friend's exploration of smart glasses for reading signs or which button is which on a coffee machine. But the glasses have enough of a lag that the white cane is more efficient for, say, commuting. If you want a "person is visually impaired" signal, the cane is one.

jenk3.bsky.social•163 days ago

Really thick glasses can be a tell of visual impairment. I'm not sure if anyone's built a camera that attaches to (or allows using) prescription lenses.

jothehat.bsky.social•163 days ago

Orcam devices can attach to spectacles. And sure, for getting around a cane or dog are superior, but there's so much information that isn't accessible and having your phone out can be asking for trouble. Not every blind and partially sighted person will want this tech, but those who do should /1

hylen26.bsky.social•164 days ago

Somehow it's even worse when it's Facebook.

annezo.bsky.social•164 days ago

I can be very annoying.

aaronofypsi.bsky.social•164 days ago

The only acceptable design for these things is, weirdly, the AR glasses Meta was recently showing off for industry. They look like big goofy black safety glasses. No fashion allowed for gargoyles. If you want pizzaz you take those things off.

aaronofypsi.bsky.social•164 days ago

Example:

briantransplant.com•163 days ago

Meta has already put cameras on faces. Their entire VR line is basically "put these cameras on your head and walk around your house."

kkowboy.bsky.social•163 days ago

these Ray-Bans in the article photo also have cameras and already have been on the market for a while. Apparently they're also selling better than they ever even expected.

ninjamonkky.bsky.social•164 days ago

Tis an age of Luddites, why make ugly glasses instead of making things people need; economically. I keep asking for a pair of pairing specs that pair with my TV to show me subtitles as I walk around the room. Basic function, simple enough to be scalable, affordable; relationship saver on subtle y/n.

drewgee.bsky.social•162 days ago

Take Freedom or Privacy. You can't have both!

stephensmith.bsky.social•164 days ago

It's really disturbing and disappointing how many people just walk unquestioning into the pervasive surveillance state.

babayagaacolyte.bsky.social•162 days ago

We can all carry masking tape and just ask any ppl wearing these things to kindly tape over their cameras when in the same establishment/bus/park as us.

And if they refuse ... grab their glasses and run?

komadori.bsky.social•164 days ago

Indeed I do... I had a damn good rant about it at the time. Do you remember them being referred to as "glassholes"? 🫢

eclecticautie83.bsky.social•164 days ago

The only really useful thing I can see is like in a commercial (I think it was for Meta) where someone asked the glasses to translate a sign into English.

greatjoe.bsky.social•164 days ago

and your phone can already do this.

jenk3.bsky.social•163 days ago

Useful for visually impaired with reading instructions and such. Everyone else....

jenk3.bsky.social•163 days ago

(Visually impaired such that you can't make out where the writing is...pairing the glasses scanning with listening.)

hengymrohebwlad.bsky.social•163 days ago

Also remember that when Google Glass came out, there was no comprehensive EU-wide legislation protecting people's data privacy with robust financial penalties for infringement.

Not sure how GDPR will handle semi-covert data-gathering by glassholes, but should be fun to watch.

https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/

fruvous73.bsky.social•164 days ago

Eventually they will dodge this problem by making smart glasses that look exactly like normal glasses.

Then everyone who wears glasses will be suspect. :(

orionkidder.bsky.social•164 days ago

This is a very good point, and that's probably why they're now being designed to *hide*. In a book, we'd all start start carrying around some kind of bluetooth jammer or a non-visible light that screws up their cameras.

shanny8.bsky.social•164 days ago

"We're trying to violate your rights to privacy"

SUE THEM...the idiot who wants to invest in a pair of those glasses- AND Meta

theotherrickfox.bsky.social•164 days ago

Meta: *Looks back at Google Glasses' monumental failure*
"Hey, guys, look! I have a great idea!" *Repeats what Google Glasses does verbatim*

8bit.social•164 days ago

Was in SF when that whole 'glasshole' thing unfolded. Stories of people being punched in the face in bars.

Oh and this is just
https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/augmented-reality-explorer-steve-mann-assaulted-at-parisian-mcdonalds/

daughterofmercury.bsky.social•163 days ago

I think it might be time to make wearing masks, anti surveillance makeup, and other privacy methods more normal

gru.beer•164 days ago

I am not sure that's why the product failed though

rwwgreene.bsky.social•164 days ago

I feel like we've lost a lot of ground on privacy since then.

emilgson.bsky.social•164 days ago

True , though pretty sure we’ll eventually get to the point where smart glasses become indistinguishable from normal glasses and then we’re in for a whole other can of worms.

transgirlterra.bsky.social•164 days ago

That’s why you gotta create your own privacy in public and where a mask because when you are in public you are being filmed already over a 100 times a day

kroos1.bsky.social•162 days ago

Kind of lovely I think

wesmank.bsky.social•164 days ago

Using these things as computer screens at home could be useful. Walking around with them all day is a dumb idea.

asheepie.bsky.social•163 days ago

Yeah, they can bog off too, along with the idiots wearing them

f1ngerless.bsky.social•164 days ago

November Caldwell-Kelly observed that the eternal enemy of wearable technology is bullies. we bullied google glass, we bullied vision pro, we bullied the humane ai pin, and now we can bully mark zuckerberg again like when he was angling to run for prez

themilfmag.net•164 days ago

oh is that how it went down sick

enceladusty.bsky.social•163 days ago

I have the same reaction except for when it comes to filming cops.

mountainmusings.bsky.social•163 days ago

I heard Zuckerbergerer on a podcast talking about his glasses and he's all in on it. Sounded goofy and useless to me.

angryoldgeek.bsky.social•164 days ago

I also remember there were Snapchat video glasses like these (but don't remember the product name) they were hot for a second and only sold through vending machines that were randomly placed and removed around the country.

nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social•163 days ago

What I’m hearing is Meta wants to be inundated with thousands of terabytes of people fapping.

farwent.net•164 days ago

It's stronger than their power to be annoying, which is saying something!

patrickcanning.bsky.social•164 days ago

Musk's spin on this will be to replace your actual eyes with cameras that send the info first to their servers and then back to you..

geoffreyconley.xyz•164 days ago

"Sorry, your EyeCams® require a security update limited only to premium verified customers. Don't worry though, your $199/month subscription comes with security updates and a free blue checkmark."

patrickcanning.bsky.social•164 days ago

😂
*system is currently unavailable

traveller-in-black.bsky.social•164 days ago

"Firmware and hardware updates may be ceased on any time, expiring all warranties and cancelling all subscriptions and contracts, with no liability to the producer, even if said technology is a part of your body or necessary to your quality of life"

motomatters.com•164 days ago

The word glasshole was invented precisely because of those people, and we need to start using it again

chimney.bsky.social•164 days ago

the biggest sticking point for me (aside from all the obvious privacy concerns) is that i dont want to pay for a monthly data plan to be able to see. some things dont need to be “smart”. i dont want it in my glasses, in my car, or my washing machine. give me a real machine. analog is the way to go

droidgoat.bsky.social•164 days ago

One of the cashiers was wearing a pair of these at Safeway (Ray-bans Meta).

pettet.bsky.social•164 days ago

The autocratic regimes will love this - #TrumpyBoy and consorts - #Putler - the war criminal #BiBiN etc..

smullins3000.bsky.social•164 days ago

Don't you like to be out in public and then suddenly take on a facial expression that indicates that you're either pooping your pants or having a stroke?

spagritty.bsky.social•163 days ago

with the explosion of video-based social media and video surveillance i wonder if the public will be less resistant to the threat of being constantly filmed.

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