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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology.

This has nothing to do with smart glasses, and everything to do with surveillance capitalism. You could do the same thing with a smartphone, or any camera + computer. All this does is highlight how everyones most sensitive data has been aggregated by numerous corporations and is available to anyone who will pay for it. There was a time when Capitalism used to equate itself as the "free" and privacy preserving antithesis to Soviet style communist surveillance, yet no KGB agent ever had access to a system with 1/100th the surveillance capabilities that 21st century capitalism now sells freely for profit. If you need proof, a couple of college students were able to create every stalking victims worst nightmare.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I mean sort of.

It does mean that walking around with smart glasses will have people potentially reacting to you like you are waving a recording smartphone in their face.

Which is not great for product adoption, if you get my drift.

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Soon smartglasses will look like regular glasses though. Miniaturisation isn't about to stop.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New style: Frameless glasses or you are creeping.

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Frameless glasses AND clear temples

[–] vonbaronhans@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you can see what their brain is doing.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can never quite trust an organ you can't see.

[–] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Yea the ray bans in question are completely discreet unless told or you've seen them already

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