I think it’s only a matter of time before these things are ubiquitous. Once they find their “killer app”, whatever it is, people will make excuses for any failings. We’ll fall back to, “everyone is doing it, and privacy has been dead for a long time, that’s nothing new.” In other words, the same excuses we’ve always used to justify whatever terrible thing it is we want to do.
The people who continue to reject them and refuse to wear them will be marginalized and laughed at. I suppose by the time this happens, “Gen Z” will be the new “boomer”?
MMW.
Strong disagree. People fucking hate wearing tech on their faces for any extended period of time. People will push back on tech if it doesn’t actually offer any benefit to users and this doesn’t do anything better than what we already have.
Any killer app idea could be done better and faster and reach way more people if you just build it on a phone with your existing phone camera.
Plus there’s a bunch of people who actually have to wear glasses every day aren’t going to want to have pay the premium to get already expensive prescription lenses for what amounts to a novelty spy cam for Zuck.
Yup. I remember when cell phones first started creeping into life.
People used to get side-eye for interrupting in-person shit for taking a phone call - for example, when some asshole would get a call and start yammering away in a restaurant. At least among some people; lots of people will happily pick their nose in public and so on and so those people never even gave any kind of social niceties any thought, of course.
Same thing for when bluetooth headsets started coming on the scene. I realized things were fucked when some asshat wheeled up next to me at a urinal, apparently talking to himself, until I realize he’s yammering away on his headset while taking a piss.
And now for the past several years, yeah, some people get butthurt about “boomers” calling them if they are Gen X or younger or whatever, but still…it’s hard having a full conversation this day, involving eye contact with normal functioning adults without some interruptions while they start fiddling with their phone again to scroll endlessly or text someone who is not even present over some meaningless shit.
So yeah, I agree with you - the minute this has even a barely-passable use and hits some inflection point on price we are going to see this shit everywhere.
article is from October, wonder if still works or was killed by an system update
And is that light really all that “privacy protecting” anyway?
What kind of fool would spend $60 for something that a 1¢ piece of black electrical tape can do?
Doesn’t the glasses “know” if you tape it over and blocks you? I thought I remember there being a proximity sensor.
That said, usually prox sensors don’t detect things like…nail polish. Or paint.
