nah. no way to know what strangers are doing with them

There are no "privacy-focused" smart glasses. In fact, all of them are the exact opposite.

Lets not normalize [smart] glasses.

I mostly just don't see the point in them. If the technology could run a live adblocker that would be a different story.

If smart glasses become mainstream you'll have many people wearing them in public. And you can choose privacy respecting glasses but most people will not. So maybe let's not make them mainstream.

Keep the creep glasses where they belong, in the bottom of a garbage can

That there is an oxymoron.

I would never trust them, no matter the claim.

I would like no smart glasses at all.

'Privacy focused focused smart glasses' sounds as credible as 'your friendly stalker neighbor'.

No. Absolutely no interest in 24/7 being plugged in.

My thought is that y'all will someday see on the news "old fucker on lemmy arrested for curb stomping some asshole with smart glasses that refused to respect his wish to not be filmed"

There are some already, e.g. https://docs.brilliant.xyz/ with firmware you can replace or https://mentraglass.com/ and I even made one by sticking a RPi with its tiny camera on 3D printed frames https://twitter-archive.benetou.fr/utopiah/status/1449023602079240194/

I'm not saying it's a good idea or that it's private enough, just that it's not a theoretical questions, alternatives to Meta or Google Glass do exist already and some of them are not cloud dependent.

IMHO what's important is to be explicit about usage, understand how it's used and have informed consent. If you use them to be sneaky and hurt others, even if they are "privacy focused", fuck off.

Smart glasses with HUD and speakers, and bluetooth, no cloud dependency - yes, please.

With camera - absolutely not. This would be just a hidden recording device, absolutely capable of intruding other's privacy, regardless if it's cloud connected or not. I realize that camera provides a lot of functionality, but I just don't see the way how it can preserve privacy of other people and fit in glasses form factor.

I have some smart glasses with no camera and the option to use on device or cloud AI. They've been gathering dust though; they didn't add much to my life once the novelty wore off.

I'd love a useful heads up display with things like navigation, search (as in, "where the fuck did I leave my keys, they should be in my field of view", not "what's the capital of italy"), and something like a dashcam, where you can retroactively playback the last X minutes if something happened, but otherwise it gets deleted automatically.

And nothing gets off the device without my consent of course.

This is something I've been wanting, but with a camera. I take lots of videos on my phone everywhere I go, but I often miss moments and record too late. I think having glasses with a camera can make my life documenting easier.

I guess if only find it remotely fine if the glasses were very obviously equipped with a camera, bulky and what not.

If not, then its just a pedo cam a guy can use at a childrens playground

if it has camera and does show time, calendar, txt files and image files through sd card, without internet connectivity, that would be enough for me

if you only use them at your home alone, that's fine

If they are screens for viewing something with no camera, that already exists. "Smart glasses" as they were are tools for creeps to video everyone against their will

I don't need another source of distraction. My phone is distracting enough I don't need to have a HUD like that constantly.

Truly "privacy-focused" smart glasses wouldn't have gesture- or voice controls: because it wouldn't come with cameras nor microphones. It wouldn't allow ambiguity surrounding the ability, for these devices to collect personal data without consent: "trust me bro" toggle switches (controlled by the wearer) don't provide reasonable reassurance, to those in the vicinity of such sensors. Which would pretty much leave a heads-up display, which isn't something for me: I like clear separations between the digital and physical world, and this seeks to further blur that line; together with the obvious surveillance implications of course...

Even if I think there could be nice advantages using AR for specific use cases, for example in construction jobs, we should not invest in those technologies in any way as they would become more popular and reduce privacy overall

No such thing.

We got some camera glasses as swag and gave þem to by BIL. He used þem to take candid photos of our 4 y/o niece, who was hyper camera-conscious and knew when þe phones were being used for pictures, and would invariably pose. Þe glasses were þe only way he could get pictures wiþout interrupting whatever was going on. I believe þere's use for þem even outside of industry. Þere are stages of dementia where having AR would be helpful to þe sufferer.

I'd like access to privacy-conscious AR.