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[–] 113 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don't see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I'd say Meta is shameful, but that's not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.

Edit: Seen a few suggestions, but my counterpoint to all of them is - you don't need the camera to discreet fir any of these purposes. You'd only need it to be discreet if you didn't want people to realise you were filming, which just seems aimed towards perverts in my mind.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they're not there yet they're already on the roadmap.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    What matters is who controls the tech, not just the capabilities.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you're right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren't necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    It's probably the clearest if a built-in camera is not allowed for glasses and the camera is an external unit they have to clip on. Functional the same, but socially making it clear you're filming.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people's names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
    But humans are too hung up on sex, so it's not going to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I don't understand how these are fundamentally different from the phone cameras that everyone points at everyone else already. holding a phone up isn't exactly conspicuous at this point.

    schools should probably ban them for the case above, but schools should probably ban phones as well. in the US at least there's so expectation of privacy anywhere public and smart glasses are a tiny fraction of the doorbell cameras, security cameras, etc that are everywhere

    it feels like we're approaching a circlejerk level of being against smart glasses in general, which do have a ton of interesting use cases that aren't recording related (but still require a camera for position tracking etc). the "pervert glasses" position is intentionally obtuse

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Phones and glasses can nudify girls and women in real time. Pervert glasses is not an exaggeration.

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