It'll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.

However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.

As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.

No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don't want to be recorded.

I'll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.

I work a retail job where I'm staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I'm working.

But until there are more of an "open source" type Smart Glasses that aren't supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I'll join the rest of y'all on staying far away from them.

Fuck no

In concept, they're the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they'll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.

I wouldn't use anything from Meta, no exceptions.

No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps

Tech isn't fun anymore. Why do I want to act as a spy camera for big corporations

Absolutely fucking not. I have literally no interest in being more online. That sounds depressing.

I'm mildly interested in the technology, but I sure as hell wouldn't go anywhere near Meta-branded anything. For starters, based on the demo, the product fucking sucks, but then there's also the privacy and fascism issues.

Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?

I gotta wear glasses anyways so it'd be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.

But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn't interesting.

I wanted a wearable computer with a head-mounted display real bad until the justified backlash against Google Glass ruined it for everyone.

This is a category of device that cannot be allowed to be implemented as a surveillance-capitalist product, only as Open Hardware.

Every idiot wearing this dystopian Stasi shit needs to be punched in the face.

Remember Google Glass?
Same story here. Neat tech but no chance buddy

If they weren't a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren't owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.

i'd buy glasses that would scramble the vision of smart glasses

I would not wear one and would never trust anyone that would.

I saw how impossible it was to actually take the WhatsApp call for Zuckerberg himself.

Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.

Just in a dream scenario where they are

• Seamless, Not bulky
• GrapheneOS version for it
• Physical kill switch for mic, camera and sensors
• Tor routed, or VPN friendly
• Only open source software
• Environmental and Fair wages commitment
• 100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
• Up to date law for these technologies

I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.

When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.

See y'all in 2077

I have a strong use case. As a hearing aid and earpods. Regular in ear units never stay put and aren't comfortable. Once I find a set that is affordable and can take my prescription, (and meet the need) I'm in.

No, even if it were open source, I don't want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.

Unless it can connect to my own server, no.

I don't think I want my face to be any more punchable than it already is

Literally the only thing I would want “smart” glasses to do is play videos or show messages from select apps. Ditch the shitty camera, don’t ever connect to an “AI” service, and for the love of god, don’t be made to lock into a big tech company..

I would kinda like glasses that could display my heart rate and running pace, so I would not have to look at my watch.

Nope. I can wait for the chip implant to broadcast ads in my sleep.

No

Fuck no. I don't need to record my life to share it with the world. Even if people would be interested in it, why do I need to be sharing so much of my life.

From meta? Not a chance unless there's a way to completely free them from any meta related software.

Not from Meta for sure.

And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.

I would buy smart tech in the future but only once capitalism has disintegrated into a new world social order (i.e. the distant future) otherwise the motives of the tech company might be questionable and who knows what secret control crap they might add without your knowledge.

Oh awesome can't wait to have my privacy invaded by every random yahoo dipshit tech bro fuckwad on the street with these bloody glasses. Love being recorded and logged for Zuckerberg's data wank bank.

Won't buy them, won't interact with people who have them. Will cut off friendships over this, no problem.

Isn’t tech already creepy enough, how’s this going to make things better, I can see limited good uses cases as opposed to how it’s being used most of the time right now

The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.

So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

Depends which company makes them. Probably not

I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it'd 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company's servers. I've gotten used to my android phone that doesn't have google play services, and I'll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I'd like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I'd be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.

Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won't be getting smart glasses any time soon

Hard pass

Made by Meta - hell no.

Made by someone else - possibly.

My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

Wouldn't even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I've seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can't imagine I'd use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they'd make everyone around me, I'd be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky ... I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.

Camera, full color discreet display, and open source/*nix based? Yes, I would throw a couple grand down for that.

I'd rather strap my cell phone to my face.

So many confidentiality violations with these. And if at the gym? Yikes. Hard no.

No. They'll probably find a way to put ads in your field of vision momentarily.

Nothing smart technology promises over dumb technology is something I ever wanted in the first place.

I just want phones to be phones, TVs to be TVs, and glasses to be glasses.

Not a chance in hell.

I'd love them, but like others have said, not if made by Meta, and not if they rely on sending all my data to cloud services to function.

I would love a pair of smart glasses to augment what I'm seeing... Give me context, keep me informed, allow me to monitor things closely, yet passively, and let me do it all inconspicuously and unobtrusively! Even better if it has eye tracking navigation.

Oh, and make sure the hardware and software are open source and self-hosted. If it has all of that I'm in, 100%.

Apparently, the Glasshole lesson was not learned.

Only of its running open source. Otherwise, probably not.

NEVER

its possible. Its hard to say until you start using something. It would make it more like it if it was basically a screen and maybe camera and mic.

Hell nah

Why would I?

Maybe if I wore glasses already I would potentially consider one, if it had no camera and was open enough to let me do whatever I wanted on it.

But I don't wear glasses so it would still be an extra thing I would need to carry with me and for that purpose I have a phone already.

Not unless they had some sort of UI in the glass that you can focus on, and some sort of visual Augmented reality system.

If it's just a bullshit piece of plastic with a camera that speaks to you then why the fuck would i stick that on my face? Just make it a necklace or something there's no reason for it to be glasses.

I want to be able to instantly snap a picture of what I am looking at when I am riding my bike.

So here's the deal. I can't understand people. Between the ADHD and general hearing issues I would pay a lot to have the ability to have subtitles on people. I feel left out on a lot of conversations due to not being able to follow along.

Nice try, industry shill.

No. I have no need for this piece of equipment. I don't want to wear the internet on my face. We asked for hoverboards, holograms, and flying cars.

probably not unless I'm developing software for one, I think the angle meta is aiming for is kind of dumb but I do see how they could be useful in industrial settings.. but then again I guess microsoft tried and failed at that with the hololens

No

no.