Anecdotally, it helps me a lot. It helps eye strain and when I’m working all day in the whitest of lighting, they’re more socially acceptable than sunglasses.

the dark theme craze from a few years ago

I didn't understand it until very recently. Age is really catching up with my eyesight now, and I need the dark themes in the evening. Otherwise, even with the laptop's backlight turned all the way down , it's really straining on my eyes.

Red shifting doesn't do anything for me though, as I've never had any trouble falling asleep with blue light around. But I get that some people need it.

Yeah, always found it weird that people get blue light filters in their every-day-glasses. It's kind of like the dark theme craze from a few years ago. Screens are significantly less bright than looking outside a window, even on a cloudy day. And we evolved to run around in sunlight for many hours a day, so you'll be fine.

Hell, you'll be less fine, if you don't blast your eyes with bright lights, because melatonin production isn't inhibited, which you do want during the day.

Because of course they were.

"Fixed an issue" = tactical deflecting.

Tech cucks.

I want this on a T-shirt: https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

I swear, this is exactly how I imagine Zuck explaining the idea of this product to his peons:

Sooooo who's going to prison then?

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat no waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

How embarrassing for Meta glasses owners. They bought them to spy on other people, not to be spied on themselves. What an invasion of privacy! The horror! /clutches pearls

Pervert glasses record without consent. News at 11...

The issue is they were caught. The fix is they'll hide it better next time.

Meta confirms that their pervert glasses were recording and stalking without being activated

« It was a Bug » yeah, sure

"Fixed an issue"...

Yeah, it was totally an unfortunate bug that was totally not on purpose...

Go pros have existed for pov filming for YEARS.

They are also more conspicuous than pervert glasses, so perving on those dogs without their knowledge is harder.

And they still can’t help themselves

If they didn’t have all that extra nonsense on there, they might have been able to cut battery size and price down.

Even Reality G2. That's what I'm getting. No camera. Just a hud.

I have seen only one legitimate use in the wild:

There is a gentleman who goes to shelters and tries to rehabilitate traumatized dogs. I think his channel is called “sitting with dogs” or something like that.

He recently switched to these glasses because it more easily allowed him to record what he was looking at without using his hands. Because excess hand movements could - and sometimes did - spook the dogs. It also allowed him to use both hands to do certain things, which IIRC proved to be safer in some instances.

Without a camera, they're just very expensive glasses.

Anyone can do that with their smart watch already.

You underestimate the nefarious potential of hidden audio-only recorders. Thieves can loiter in busy locations and record people having an affair to blackmail them, spelling their password on the phone or giving their address to their friend in a bar and ask them to water the plants while they're on vacation next week (indicating that the house will be empty and ripe for burglary next week)...

There's a reason why it's illegal to record people without their consent.

The thing with those audio-recording glasses, as with the Apple spy watch, is that the valid uses cases are few and weak (it's mostly people who are too lazy to take notes in a meeting) but the nefarious use cases are much more numerous.

The important point though is that the devices need to be compelling enough for people to buy them, so the makers can use them as Trojan horses to put their customers and their surroundings under surveillance. And the makers don't care if the usage is legal or ethical, as long as they can get their bugged devices into the hands of their victims.

Nobody will buy a camera-free version because the only reason anyone buys these glasses is to be a fucking pervert.

Because they are build to collect data. Collecting data is the main business of tech companies now. All new tech is developed wtih the primary purpose of collecting data, everything else is an afterthought.

Which is why all new tech is so unimaginative now.