Asklemmy

Unless it can connect to my own server, no.

No, even if it were open source, I don't want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.

its possible. Its hard to say until you start using something. It would make it more like it if it was basically a screen and maybe camera and mic.

Maybe in 20 years when they’ll be decent and I won’t pay to be you beta tester. Also open source, repairability and privacy is a must

If they weren't a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren't owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.

Only of its running open source. Otherwise, probably not.

Oh awesome can't wait to have my privacy invaded by every random yahoo dipshit tech bro fuckwad on the street with these bloody glasses. Love being recorded and logged for Zuckerberg's data wank bank.

Won't buy them, won't interact with people who have them. Will cut off friendships over this, no problem.

I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it'd 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company's servers. I've gotten used to my android phone that doesn't have google play services, and I'll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I'd like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I'd be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.

Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won't be getting smart glasses any time soon

No. They'll probably find a way to put ads in your field of vision momentarily.

I would buy smart tech in the future but only once capitalism has disintegrated into a new world social order (i.e. the distant future) otherwise the motives of the tech company might be questionable and who knows what secret control crap they might add without your knowledge.

No

Hell nah

Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?

I gotta wear glasses anyways so it'd be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.

But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn't interesting.

NEVER

So here's the deal. I can't understand people. Between the ADHD and general hearing issues I would pay a lot to have the ability to have subtitles on people. I feel left out on a lot of conversations due to not being able to follow along.

From meta? Not a chance unless there's a way to completely free them from any meta related software.

Just in a dream scenario where they are

• Seamless, Not bulky
• GrapheneOS version for it
• Physical kill switch for mic, camera and sensors
• Tor routed, or VPN friendly
• Only open source software
• Environmental and Fair wages commitment
• 100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
• Up to date law for these technologies

I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.

I want to be able to instantly snap a picture of what I am looking at when I am riding my bike.

Why would I?

No

no.

probably not unless I'm developing software for one, I think the angle meta is aiming for is kind of dumb but I do see how they could be useful in industrial settings.. but then again I guess microsoft tried and failed at that with the hololens

Hard pass

I'll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.

I work a retail job where I'm staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I'm working.

But until there are more of an "open source" type Smart Glasses that aren't supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I'll join the rest of y'all on staying far away from them.

I wouldn't use anything from Meta, no exceptions.

No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don't want to be recorded.

I wear glasses as anyways and I'd love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I'd probably need a device to control it somehow too.

However, I wouldn't want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and "updates" I didn't ask for.

I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.

However, I'm pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I'll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.

When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.

See y'all in 2077

It'll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.

However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.

As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.

Not from Meta for sure.

And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.

Fuck no

In concept, they're the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they'll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.

Remember Google Glass?
Same story here. Neat tech but no chance buddy

Tech isn't fun anymore. Why do I want to act as a spy camera for big corporations

Made by Meta - hell no.

Made by someone else - possibly.

My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

Wouldn't even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I've seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can't imagine I'd use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they'd make everyone around me, I'd be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky ... I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.

No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps

I would not wear one and would never trust anyone that would.

Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.

Fuck no. I don't need to record my life to share it with the world. Even if people would be interested in it, why do I need to be sharing so much of my life.