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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 16 points 15 hours ago

Thank fucking god.

Wearing those should allow anybody to punch your face without law-based repercussions

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 80 points 22 hours ago (29 children)
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[–] Zier@fedia.io 17 points 18 hours ago

Meta. The largest portal for all your stalking needs.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can we just recycle “glasshole”?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 21 hours ago

Why not both?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

(Although TBH, I would really love to have a wearable computer that was fully open source and local. Unfortunately, big tech going full Orwell has ruined the idea permanently.)

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Oh I would love a computer on my face to that isn't part of some BS like meta. How fun would it be to look at an object and ask "what is it" and it can find the answer. On a sidebar giving you real time health updates like heart rate, O2 levels, ect. Oh theres a storm rolling in, good to know I'll roll my cars windows up.

Or my fav, your approaching a flock camera, here is an alternate route.

Plus news/rss/emails all in a AR setting.

But we all know this is probably never going to happen because these scumbags want to monetize/teach their failing AI to make a buck.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Oh I would love a computer on my face to that isn't part of some BS like meta. How fun would it be to look at an object and ask "what is it" and it can find the answer. On a sidebar giving you real time health updates like heart rate, O2 levels, ect. Oh theres a storm rolling in, good to know I'll roll my cars windows up.

Tbh, I don't see how this is significantly better than a smartphone or smartwatch, besides the gimmick factor of having a HUD

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I had high hopes for Google Glass because of the previous work of the GA Tech professor who led it, until it came out. That thing was a regression in both privacy and functionality compared to his self-built wearable computers from the '90s or 2000s.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Honestly this is one of the biggest bummers for me. I love new tech that comes out, but every time I see something my first thought isn't "oh boy I wonder how I can use this" it's "ah great I wonder how that's gonna gather data on me"

It sucks, the "user data" market has taken all the whimsy out of tech for me.

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[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago

As they should be, fucking perverts

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

At least two major events that happen in my city have announced a full ban on the pervert glasses

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 5 points 19 hours ago

Oh no how unfortunate.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 4 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Good. Cuz if I see you recording and I ask you to stop, you get one warning... I won't hesitate to punch you in the face and break those obnoxious glasses on your face if you argue. Hey maybe you'll go viral 😅

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 21 hours ago

And then everyone on the bus claps

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Now do cell phones.

Honestly the hot mic you carry in your pocket that can be used as a wire to record every conversation is more invasive

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I was living in NYC when Google Glass first premiered. Within three or four days, almost every restaurant, every shop, and certainly every bar and club had a sign that said “Google glass forbidden! Anyone wearing Google glass will be banned for life!“

I didn’t see many people wearing them, but when I did, it wouldn’t be long before I saw some random person just punch the fuck out of that person, or grab the headset off of the person’s face and just stomp it, and then just start screaming at the person who was wearing them until they ran away, while everyone nearby cheered them on.

And every time, I felt that they deserved that— because they did.

With all of these secret spyware sunglasses that Meta is pushing out today? I fully expected people being beat to death with baseball bats, or being shot in the face with guns. I’m actually quite glad that people are learning their lessons now before they are just being fucking murdered in the streets. But if that’s what it takes for people to stop wearing these sunglasses, not spy on people in record them without their permission, then so be it.

Listen up, you entitled assholes. You wear these stupid spyglasses in public, and you deserve every shred of bodily harm and violence that you get coming to you. And if it takes every single person who puts them on their face being torn apart in the streets and dying horrific death until a long gets past banning them forever, then please please please make that happen. People need to learn that their personal entitlement will cost them their lives if it steps hard enough on others that the others fight back. And we others? We need to learn how to fight back hard enough to make them stop.

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago (10 children)

I'll take "things that never happened" for 300, Alex.

[–] finley@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Why? I’ve seen someone with smart glasses get punched in the face about it, and I don’t even live in fancy New York.

Lol, things happen to people. Get over it.

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[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Things like this make me miss living in New York.

[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Greatest place on earth

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