I used to run a comedy show during this era.

We straight up kicked those fucks out

I think the product that speaks the most about the camera was the Snapchat Spectacles. Snapchat did everything they could to position it strictly as a fun, party-oriented camera that didn't try to hide what it was but leaned into the fun ways to use it.

And they still died out after the initial hype. Which I think is most telling because, like, here's this product with the most positive take you could possibly have on "glasses with cameras" and people still didn't want it. So wth makes Google think the creepy no-fun version will catch on?

90% of the point of these things is having AI analyze what you are looking at (and also monetize it with ads etc).

Needed the data, if you're phone is always in your pocket then it's really hard to get a live video. Better to model their AI to simulate human interactions

creeps are the #1 target demo for these devices

Not for the first time. Metaverse failed for all the same reasons that Second Life did: it's a solution to a problem that most people don't have. Except Second Life - which still exists and supposedly is far more active than during its heyday - only cost the merest fraction compared to the Metaverse.

As for the Spybans, there were a couple of short films released around 2010 that predicted the privacy issues linking AR with realtime social networking would bring. So it's not a new idea. Unfortunately, both films were taken down soon after because they were deemed too disturbing.

And yet, here we are.

It wasn't dumb and they didn't forget. The frog has simply been sufficiently boiled. Meta sold millions of these. The people complaining are a very small minority.

The trouble is, half the cool shit that AR can do requires some sort of optical sensor to pull off. If you want it to be anything more than just a smaller cell phone closer to your eye.

And if course they were compelled to hook it up to their mass surveillance network...

They are not that keen on obtaining consent. In every regard.

A) Buy now
B) Maybe later

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These do exist and they are pretty amazing apparently.

there isn't any real way to prevent recording stealthily other than having the device stand out

Yeah the idea was so bad Apple stopped developing future Apple Vision products and pivoted to release an affordable alternative.

This thread seems to have a whole lot of hopefulness and not much actual data they are going off. If Apple actually launches a good usable pair for a decent price, it will all become "I wish manufacturers never made these" and people yelling pervert at someone on the street will result in them getting sued/arrested/baker acted.

It's been 12 years since glass went public, I have to imagine someone figured out decent ways to work the upgrades in hardware since into them.

2013 version: 45nm Chip made by Texas instruments.

Any chip from 2026/7 will run laps around it

that make sense, why i only saw one person in public once using, so they had to be a tech dev. in any cause it was still considered as a perv glass too, because you could somehow watch porn on it.

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The cameras have copper in them too. Probably.