A BYOB bundle with each item you choose priced at €1.50 or less. This is a particularly good deal if you're interested in the classic tactical wargame series Close Combat as I don't think these games have ever been bundled at a price as low as this before.

Pick from:

Battle Academy

Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front

Close Combat - Gateway to Caen

Close Combat : Panthers in the Fog

Close Combat: Cross of Iron (CC3 modernization)

Close Combat: The Longest Day (CC5 modernization)

Close Combat: Wacht am Rhein (CC4 modernization)

Radio Commander: Vietnam '64

Field of Glory II: Medieval

Field of Glory: Empires

Fantasy General II

plus a bunch of DLC for some of these games

One model from Warby Parker and another from Gentle Monster. The display versions are coming next year at the earliest.

The video reviews both the visual translation (looking at text) as well as live transcription features of different smart glasses. There's some through the lens footage for all of them.

The following glasses are included: Meta Ray-Ban display glasses Rokid Glasses RayNeo X3 Pro Even Realities G2 Inmo Air3 Inmo Go3

The Qwen S1 specs have a heads-up waveguide display etched into the lenses, and serve as a rival to Meta's Ray-Ban Display model (minus the gesture control). My first impression of these AR glasses was that they were light and comfortable to wear -- I wouldn't have known that they were smart glasses by their weight alone. At the end of each arm are swappable batteries, which snap off easily so you can keep the glasses running for longer when you're on the go.

The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.

Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex and other intimate moments.

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media’s coverage of how people are using Meta’s Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

In 2023, Bluesky's CTO Paul Frazee was asked what would happen if Bluesky ever turned against its users. His answer:

it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there's a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I'm switching to freesky

That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.

Meta sold more than seven million smart glasses last year. This is according to the annual report of the world's largest eyewear manufacturer EssilorLuxottica, which the company published on Wednesday evening. EssilorLuxottica develops and sells the smart glasses together with Meta.

A year ago, it was said that two million smart glasses were sold and that the annual production capacity was to be increased to 10 million units by the end of 2026. In the summer, the company announced that sales had more than tripled compared to the previous year. A quarter later, EssilorLuxottica stated that smart glasses now accounted for a third of its revenue growth and that plans to increase production were being further accelerated.

I argee with the article's author that there's reason to have some concerns about this.

The following studios being shut down: Sanzaru (Asgard's Wrath series), Twisted Pixel (Deadpool VR), Armature (RE4 Quest VR port)

Meta acquisitions have proven to be a death sentence for so many great VR game developers already before, most notably Ready at Dawn.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56884744

AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a "strategic advantage," Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

MSC Cruises is the latest one to ban smart glasses and this may be becoming more and more of a problem for people using them.

Previously in Egypt tourists have reportedly been blocked from going to see the pyramids and some museums there also ban them. Saudi Arabian authorities apparently confiscate them at the airport from arriving passengers. Anyone who needs a prescription needs to consider that they may not be able to use them everywhere.