Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too

https://manualdousuario.net/en/smart-glasses-ugly-tacky/

by rpgbr • 1 month ago

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PaulHoule• 1 month ago

I think passthrough has no future. VR games are fun, immersive applications are real, AR adds a dimension to that but without the immersive applications tech bros will keep failing at this one.

miladyincontrol• 1 month ago

I’m inclined to believe in a future a bit less binary and more MR in general. Devices that can handle a variety of experiences from 1% augmented to 100% virtual.

malfist• 1 month ago

Well as long as we're all stating opionins at each other, I think bikes with 650b tires are the future

nostrademons• 1 month ago

VR is for games, AR is for businesses.

I've seen legit-useful AR apps for doctors/surgeons, dentists, firefighters, law enforcement, warehouse workers, etc. Basically anything where you need to be out in the real world doing something that would benefit from having situational-awareness of other non-visual conditions. This is a pretty wide swath of professions, with a lot of potential to save lives. Just having a patient's vital signs projected while a surgeon operates could prevent many deaths on the operating table, along with lots of fuck-ups like leaving a scalpel behind in the patient.

dylan6042• 1 month ago

AR adds

what really worries me would be AR ads

marssaxman• 1 month ago

If AR glasses could run an adblocker for the real world, that might convince me to buy a pair.

mrkpdl3• 1 month ago

I did quite a bit of work in VR about a decade ago. The VR vs AR delineation was a constant conversation back then too. In meetings, at the bar, and so on: “This VR sure isn’t great but just you wait, AR will be the good one”…

But in reality it’s splitting hairs. Similar to discussing which tone pot values are better for your Stratocaster. Most people just don’t care, nor should they! “Stop trying to make fetch happen” as they say.

lostlogin• 1 month ago

This is so much like something of the amazing series Silicon Valley. Fucking billionaires.

SkiFreeWin3• 1 month ago

Industrial use cases will be huge once software+AI are firing on all cylinders.

I’m a skeptic on the consumer side of this being a runaway hit like smartphones.

Enterprise and industrial and the trades use cases in physical space is big.

reaperducer• 1 month ago

Industrial use cases will be huge once software+AI are firing on all cylinders.

Industry has had entire VR rooms since at least the 1990's, when I saw one in use.

AR glasses are toys compared to what the big oil companies have been using to visualize underground strata since before Facebook et.al. even existed.

Pretending that they're going to revolutionize the industrial space is just grasping at straws to justify a gadget that nobody other than tech bros and perverts want.

Terr_• 1 month ago

Industrial use-cases could end up as fundamentally different product, ex:

* Guiding someone through a complex assembly, it's going to be on pretty much all shift, with effects on thermal management and battery capacity.

* You'll want to swap batteries so that it can be used by another shift, which will take priority over fashion.

* It may also need to incorporate positioning markers and QR codes and external sensor data from a particular environment, sometimes taking preference over any general object recognition.

* Facial recognition won't figure very much.

* Ruggedness and repairability may be prioritized over miniaturization.

* Little to no tolerance for letting the vendor have footage or vague "telemetry" when trade secrets are involved.

In other words, it's like kind of like how the design/use/adoption of freight trains isn't necessarily indicative of the design/use/adoption of pickup trucks. Sure, they both move large things on wheels using diesel power, but...

dylan6042• 1 month ago

* Ruggedness and repairability may be prioritized over miniaturization.

repairability? in what trend are you seeing that being a thing? they'll just make you buy an expensive warranty/insurance plan for replacements. i really don't see tech allowing for repairability

type02• 1 month ago

I think something like this might be implemented as part of the helmet for jobs that require it, definitely not built into glasses that will likely always be ridiculous just like riding penny-farthing is kinda ridiculous now.

quickthrowman2• 1 month ago

It would be amazing to be able to look at an equipment nameplate and pull up a cutsheet, installation and operations manual, etc.

01100011• 1 month ago

I can already do that with my phone and google lens. I don't have to strap extra crap to my face or let a device spy on everything I see.

merelysounds• 1 month ago

In the long run it could spread from commercial to consumer scenarios; perhaps extra fast if there was adoption in the services sector.

contingencies• 1 month ago

I disagree. The idea humans will be in the loop and the best way to accelerate things is to teach them slightly faster is fundamentally flawed. Future industrial will be automated, the only humans who will need comprehension will be the maintenance staff or management, and they will have familiarity and/or alternate tooling rendering glasses a noncritical value add at best.

By the time that rolls around, this stuff will be available for cents on the dollar, just as Shenzhen showrooms were full of AR/VR hardware in 2015 and the industry has gone nowhere for 30+ years.

cadamsdotcom• 1 month ago

Are you sure?

Wasn’t HoloLens (from Microsoft) squarely aimed at this use case? What went wrong there?

YuechenLi• 1 month ago

You should be skeptical of industrial use case as well. Allowing any device with internet access and a camera on it onto the floor of most electronics manufacturing facility is a nonstarter, phones, smart glasses, or anything of that sort. The other thing is, smart glasses buy nothing over having PCs/assembly line machines with screens for HMI, and standard operating procedures can be printed on paper. Also, if you are actually an operator on an assembly line, wearing these glasses for 10 hours a day is the last thing you want at your job.

The case for them gets even worse for heavy manufacturing industry/trades, since you have to think about safety and liability now: what if these smart glasses fall into the machines and cause an accident? Can these smartglasses can withstand the environmental conditions in the workshop?

Gud2• 30 days ago

I install heavy machinery for a living.

What exactly do you envision these things will help me with?

panny• 1 month ago

Yesterday's story about airpods causing wearers to isolate themselves and become unhappier comes to mind. Headphones in your ears, display in your glasses... about the only way to connect with anyone will be to smell really bad I guess.

throe93934• 1 month ago

The "smell" will be a pepper sprey! Why people can not just leave strangers alone? Always soliciting attention and "look at me" attitude!

Most people are not "isolating themselves", they have stuff to do and places to be. They do not want to talk about some animal, or current issue of today!

recursive2• 1 month ago

That doesn't sound distinct from "isolating themselves". Some people actually enjoy connecting with people.

rfrey• 1 month ago

Somebody saying hello to you has you reaching for pepper spray?

Hugsbox3• 1 month ago

My brother in christ, what are you even talking about

Gigachad2• 1 month ago

I can just imagine people walking around in a daze while instagram reels play endlessly in their meta spy glasses.

VTimofeenko2• 1 month ago

Folks are already walking (and driving, which is more scary) in a daze, glued to their doomscrolling rectangles

Hugsbox3• 1 month ago

Why did this site prompt me for permission to send notifications? Did my browser just do something weird? Seems strange

zachmorrison• 1 month ago

same question

Hugsbox3• 1 month ago

Okay, great, I was genuinely not certain it was the site or something I somehow did

caymanjim• 1 month ago

Tons of sites do that, because everyone who designs websites is a moron.

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

He doesn't like Zuckerberg's glasses, but he likes using his same dirty tactics!

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

Blog owner here. The notification prompt uses standard browser support for this. I know many people don’t like, but there are some that appreciate getting updates this way.

FYI, every major browser has a global switch to disable notification prompts like my blog did. It works as expected.

dieselgate• 1 month ago

Sorry for exposing you to this image

The photo captions are hilarious: "Style icons"; "Ahead of his time"

needSomeCoffee• 1 month ago

I read in another thread on another site that the Snapchat SPECs were targeted at developers. If not are they going to market with what Evan is attempting to wear at over $2K ?? Insights appreciated, NSC.

Brendinooo9• 1 month ago

I don't love the idea of smart glasses and I'm definitely very concerned about the implications of their widespread adoption. And yes, most of what we've seen hasn't looked very good.

But when I see a headline like "tacky men with ridiculous glasses" I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

reactordev• 1 month ago

Slips past the filters when “Voyeur glasses let you record your creepy interactions with females” gets flagged.

smokedetector16• 1 month ago

I find it to be an acceptable use of mockery, one of the most powerful cultural methods of exposing that the emperor has no clothes

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

I'm not finding it to be any different from "Four eyes!"

Brendinooo9• 1 month ago

The point of that story was that everyone was going along with something that was obviously nonsense, and the kid who breaks the spell simply tells the truth.

In this situation most people don't buy smart glasses because they don't look good or have a killer use case. It's not the same thing.

vkou2• 1 month ago

I get a sense that the intent is more to persuade via bullying than anything else, which...I dunno. Doesn't feel great!

Most advertising persuades you with less-than-rational means. It's just fighting fire with fire.

And it's quite justified, because in this case, it punches up against a technology with a net-negative social impact.

Brendinooo9• 1 month ago

I, of course, could never confirm intent in an online comment thread, but I suspect that some people like to give themselves permission to be mean.

(This suspicion hasn't been lessened by some of the replies I've received.)

quantified• 1 month ago

Does it make you feel like getting them out of spite? Real question.

Brendinooo9• 1 month ago

Real answer: more than I'd like. I am a contrarian who has intentionally worked to temper that impulse.

But...nah, not really.

I will say though: The only time I know for sure I knew someone had a pair of Meta Ray-Bans was in my kid's youth baseball league; The coach would film the kids batting while he pitched and shared the videos with us. People loved it. There are definitely cases where hands-free video recording would come in handy.

slg• 1 month ago

It also seems incredibly shortsighted. No fashion conscious person would have been caught dead wearing a smartwatch circa 2012, then Apple partnered with Hermes and eventually things changed. There are all sorts of valid complaints against this tech, but fashion is something so ephemeral that it's a silly to act like it is a long-term hindrance to adoption.

websap• 1 month ago

No fashion forward person wears an Apple watch. Anyone, who remotely cares about what's on their wrist wears a whoop and a traditional watch.

Problem with the Apple Watch is it does too much. They should have never enabled Apps on the Apple Watch. Kept it super simple. I hope they'll come up with a new version with an improved form factor and better battery life soon.

insane_dreamer• 30 days ago

Apple partnered with Hermes and eventually things changed

no, they didn't; the people who buy Hermes bags still wear Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe, ...

It's the "cheaper" Swiss watches -- those in the same price range as the higher end Apple Watches (sub $1000) that have suffered.

sdevonoes2• 1 month ago

They are billionaires, so it’s fine for us to make fun of them (because the joke is on us)

toasty228• 1 month ago

Lack of bullying is exactly why the world is now run by sociopathic dorks like the ones pictured in the article

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

Is this meant to be even close to a reasonable perspective?

I could equally say "Bullying is exactly why Trump is in power and Elon Musk ran DOGE".

drdeca• 1 month ago

This seems implausible.

tech_ken• 1 month ago

I think there’s a difference between full-on “bullying” and what I’d call “blunt criticism”. I think bullying requires an intent to silence or otherwise coerce through fear. Blunt criticism is more about skipping the niceties and saying it plainly, and accepting that your subject might get offended as a result. Calling someone “tacky” is way more in the blunt criticism camp I think. It’s certainly not “nice”, but there’s no way that I read this blog article as trying to change Mark Zuckerberg’s mind through fear. Nobody is getting pilloried for being tacky, and tackiness can even be repositioned as desirable through the lens of nostalgia or similar.

anigbrowl4• 1 month ago

But they are ridiculous glasses. They're so big that they're visibly crushing the top of the Snapchat guy's ears. As a lifelong glasses wearer, this is a billboard size red flag.

This is an emperor's new clothes kinda situation. You could say 'our royal personage seems to be experiencing a sartorial deficit' or you could say 'the emperor's butt naked.'

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

None of those mentioned in this post will ever read it. I wish I could persuade Zuck to be a less awful person…

JKCalhoun• 30 days ago

I know what you're saying—but there's also an Emperor's New Clothes aspect to this. I mean, someone might really need to say, "Hey guys, and you also look ridiculous."

(Edit: I should read more of the comments—someone beat me to it.)

_dain_• 1 month ago

I hope theft deters people from wearing these perv glasses. They're easier to nick than phones since owner isn't gripping them at all. I'd tolerate a fair amount of crime and public disorder as part of this tradeoff, like how we keep predators around to control pests.

bjterry• 1 month ago

The Meta glasses camera has a very wide field of view. You'd need to be quite close to a person to realistically take "pervy" photos, and it'd be really obvious. Seems like it'd be no better at this than a cell phone.

doublerabbit• 1 month ago

As someone who wears glasses, I hate glasses. Yet these wears are never designed for those with glasses so you have to buy add ons to ensure you can see out these glasses.

To have eyesight without glasses would be bliss, minus laser surgery.

hdndjsbbs2• 1 month ago

Agreed, I can't even remember to wear my prescription eyeglasses that help me see and not get a headache. No chance I'm going to wear worse, heavier, more expensive glasses so I can take pictures and have AI talk to me 24/7.

I guess I'll move to a cabin in the woods.

arjie2• 1 month ago

My wife wore Meta glasses (we borrowed a pair from a friend) on a visit to the Vancouver aquarium and they were frankly amazing. You could just hit a button and say something like “what’s that orange fish in the back?” and it just tells you and then you can read stuff off the plate or get more information if you need.

I get that this kind of dunk polemic is popular among a certain crowd but it’s more incantatory than persuasive. For the rest of us who don’t particularly dress stylishly or whatever I guess it’s fine. I can be tacky. Not the greatest sin.

milkshakes• 1 month ago

you can already do this with your phone without casually and needlessly invading the privacy of everyone around you

arjie2• 1 month ago

Yes, and now I can do it with my glasses without casually and needlessly invading the privacy of everyone around me - except the fish and I’m not that convinced by an argument for fish privacy.

AgentME• 1 month ago

Is the phone's camera more privacy-preserving than the glasses's camera?

bloody-crow2• 30 days ago

What kind of privacy are people supposed to expect in a public place like an aquarium?

layer8• 1 month ago

Zuckerberg looks like Woody Allen in that photo. :)

type02• 1 month ago

and equally creepy

montag• 1 month ago

I agree that VR goggles hit a ceiling due to simple inconvenience. Whether smart glasses will suffer the same fate is a very interesting question. But the article would be much more effective without the cheap “tech bro” ridicule. Ultimately, after calling every product ugly, the analysis put forward by this author comes down to “short battery life and privacy concerns”.

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

No, it wouldn’t.

semiinfinitely• 1 month ago

links to pages which ask if they can send you notifications should be insta-flagged + banned on hn

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

sold a few million camera glasses for pervs

I stopped reading.

If you want to convince people, try to meet them where they're at.

mrkpdl3• 1 month ago

sold a few million camera glasses for pervs

I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices.

Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100% of the time. So maybe ‘glasses for inconsiderate people who are sometimes also pervs’ is a better description?

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices.

It's not a reasonable characterization of the people that wear these devices, and that's what the sentence is implying.

Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100% of the time.

Isn't it great, then, that these glasses don't do that?

Years ago I lived in a country where your type of comment is precisely what much of society said about smartphones. Taking one out in a social event brought a lot of angry stares.

Welcome to that demographic.

tracerbulletx• 1 month ago

Ya.. if they can't admit they're fantastic for cycling or other activities where you want hands free access to some of your phones capabilities and don't want your ears obscured, then they aren't being intellectually honest in the argument. I think that's what most people actually get them for.

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

I wasn’t trying to convincing anyone anything. But that these glasses with cameras are pretty popular among pervs is a fact.

janalsncm• 1 month ago

I would encourage anyone who has a chance to book a Vision Pro demo at an Apple Store. It changed my mind in the following way:

Previously, I thought AVPs were expensive, ridiculous and useless. Now I think they are expensive and still mostly ridiculous and useless.

I saw the immersive movies and the immersive sports experiences. If they had AVP support for MLB/NBA games in my market I would absolutely buy a subscription. I think they have Lakers now but I don’t care about that.

From what I understand, there’s still a chicken and egg problem for Meta and Apple with regards to content and devices. It sucks because both companies are flush and could fix it if they wanted to.

The device itself still costs too much though.

svachalek• 1 month ago

I keep getting this ad for... Meta? glasses that shows a guy at a concert I guess filming it with his glasses. It zooms out and everyone around him has their phone in the air but not him because he's super cool.

It's like one of those puzzle images where you're supposed to find 20 things wrong with this picture.

joemi• 1 month ago

Since when was looking ridiculous a hindrance to being fashionable?

entontoent9• 1 month ago

This feels like I'm reading a comment written by anti-video game moms in the early 90s talking about the stupid unfashionable nerds and how they were ushering in a frightening new age of fewer values and greater social isolation.

I dunno, I'd love to have elf-like abilities to see systems of energy in the world around me that the human eye can't see, like wind patterns, and be able to zoom in on plants and animals in the garden and woods where I hike. I can't wait to see the skins people create for themselves, just walking around the world on holidays with fun appearances. And I'm excited for all the identity crises coming. Philosophy as physical reality.

But I guess this is as diverse of a human experience as y'all are willing to tolerate. :/

sdevonoes2• 1 month ago

Technically speaking, yeah, those things are cool. What’s not cool (anymore?) is that people like Zuck and other similar billionaires are behind such tech. I didn’t give a shit of the millionaires of the 80s/90s… but these billionaires of today, simply suck big time. So fuck them

entontoent9• 29 days ago

Yeah this is the part that really sucks

Affric5• 1 month ago

That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real.

It’s not elf like, it’s not magic, it’s not a sense, quite the opposite, it’s replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

lmm• 1 month ago

replacing sensing and processing with reading. The death of aptitude, prowess, and the human experience.

Replacing something all animals do with something uniquely human, perhaps the most important thing that sets us apart, is the death of the human experience?

BeetleB10• 1 month ago

That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real.

aka the "Digital photos aren't real photos!" argument.

gavinray• 1 month ago

  > a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real

This already describes our base experience of "reality". It's a predictive sensory hallucination.

entontoent9• 29 days ago

I feel like you would love the book "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. It agrees with you, and there's a sense in which you're right.

I wonder what you think our eyes are doing, though, and what you think magic is.

What makes it not elf-like?

We are creatures of the field and forest. The things that we invent are of the field and forest.

Are you saying that for you, the symbol translation needs to occur within cells and neurons instead of within a machine? Okay, well imagine we find a way to do that instead. Are we then more elf-like to you, because the senses would become part of our body?

Or are you saying that regardless of the path that we take to read wind and water with our eyes, we will never be like elves? That this could never be magic? Do you believe we need an External Being With Authority to grant us magic? Or a random, chaotic External Force like evolution?

It seems to me that regardless of when you "install" a sensory apparatus, before or after birth, your experience of the world will be similar (unless one or the other is more inconvenient for technical/social reasons).

If we can live in better harmony with nature due to enhanced senses that allow us to see the invisible motions of Earth, if we can identify birds and plants by sound and sight, if we can emit and process sonar, scan resources beneath the surface, better utilize and eliminate invasive species, spot predators from thousands of yards away (so they can remain in our ecosystem without being killed)... I mean that's magic to me?

apsurd2• 1 month ago

I wouldn’t say that “what if the world was digital!” is some kind of apex creative insight.

More practically the people in power need to own real estate. The metaverse, VR, AR, you’re giving these builders way too much credit by connecting it to creative expression.

They want to own the land.

entontoent9• 29 days ago

I don't think the intentions of those men matter, though, when it comes to whether or not they are creating new mediums for self expression. It won't be those men who make the art.

Most of Michaelangelo's working artistic life was spent touring and locking down stone quarries, pigments, etc and collaborating with brutal leaders to do so. Those men only cared about land and power, but the artists of the Renaissance manipulated those leaders to accomplish their own ends. This is what artists have always had to do.

And also... why is AR itself not automatically considered a form of creative expression? Art installations and cathedrals and any constructed space are doing the same thing.

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

90s’ moms were right all along!!

xboxnolifes• 30 days ago

People already walk around with skins created for themselves. Clothing choices, hair styling, tanning, tattoos, piercings, colored contacts, fur suits, teeth sharpening, surgery for changing the shape of various parts of their body, and probably more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.

I don't think the people who would make AR avatars would exceed the groups of people who do the more uncommon forms of the above. A very niche thing.

entontoent9• 29 days ago

I doubt this will remain niche.

Clothing was niche at one point.

So was plastic surgery.

Image filters are now ubiquitous.

Also, I lived through the Second Life and Warcraft eras. Many people hunger for a form that wasn't just given to them by random chance by the universe.

The internet did eventually become homogenous, but it wasn't always this way, and tens of thousands of people spent a majority of their social life in these kinds of spaces.

I think in the future, there will be costume parties and entire communities where it'll be considered vulgar to insist on looking at someone's unfiltered body, in the same way it would be strange to see them without clothing.

Gud2• 30 days ago

If you want to wear these things in your own garden, go ahead.

But please don’t bring the panopticon to the forests.

entontoent9• 29 days ago

I absolutely will. I am.

thefz2• 30 days ago

they were ushering in a frightening new age of fewer values and greater social isolation

For as much as I love video games, it's really really what happened, though.

entontoent9• 29 days ago

I don't think so. We had genocide and thousand-year periods of enslavement and colonialism and existential despair (and existentialism) and mechanization and atomization that led to the "elevation" and isolation of "nuclear" families from their social and historical contexts. We had racism and murder and sexual assault and lonely unemployed men who had nothing better to do than scapegoat entire populations and subjugate them.

I grew up gay in the American South, and the internet and video games were one of the only places I found connection that wasn't threatening. To me, what you're saying only applies to people who were part of the dominating population. Everyone else was alienated.

I am skeptical video games accelerated or deeply altered the way humans have been interacting with one another for the past 70 thousand years at least. There are a gazillion factors in why we act the way we do today, but when I read the existentialists, or mystics from 1200 AD, or the writings of ancient leaders, or Ecclesiastes, I see the same humans with the same nervous systems and the same kinds of goals. Every generation I've ever read about has lamented that the next generation is uniquely devoid of connection and has abandoned the values they had when they were kids.

idreyn• 1 month ago

I'm rooting for this general class of technology as a platform for sensory augmentation for the blind. I don't know exactly what sonic encoding of spatial information is exactly ideal — I suspect it's something echo-like, only slowed-down — but it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to develop it and support it on commodity hardware. Please no Meta login, though.

gherkinnn• 1 month ago

These people have no taste.

But I must admit, similar things regarding style were said about the AirPods and here we are.

Ratfor• 1 month ago

The accessibility features for blind and low-sight individuals is life-changing. These are available already for Meta glasses, and I am very hopeful that the Google Audio glasses will be as good.

The problem is not the glasses.

dools• 1 month ago

The new Google ones don't look too bad.

delecti• 1 month ago

I'm actually looking forward to AR glasses getting more mainstream. My dream is glasses with displays that show live captions for people speaking. My auditory processing kinda sucks, and live captions would be a huge help in conversations. I'd also see the appeal of a HUD with some basic information like compass direction, clock, and weather, but really just captions would be awesome.

But all of the mainstream glasses are basically just bad earbuds and cameras. The idea of permanent cameras on my face feels creepy as hell, and there are a million better options for earbuds. It also feels ridiculous to get a device with a permanent connection to one single company's AI. It's like a dedicated Hulu button on a smart TV's remote, but several cranked several notches dumber.

qkeast• 30 days ago

I’m deaf and just got a pair of Even G2 glasses, which have a live captioning mode and no camera. They’re already lifechanging, even if they come with the risk of being taken away at any moment if the company shuts down or discontinues support.

anigbrowl4• 1 month ago

All of the people whining about the tone of this are way off base. These glasses are a joke because they are too large for the human head. They are visibly crushing the ears of the wearers. They are so large that if you bend your neck or back to look at something they will fall off.

But it's making fun of people who wear glasses

No it isn't. I've had to wear glasses with thick ass lenses since the age of 5 and I am telling you with my 50 years of glasses-wearing experience that these glasses are stupid because they were very clearly designed by people who don't have to wear glasses. Defending these is like saying that people who laugh at bicycle wheels with rounded corners are being shapeist.

It's not about the fashion, or the technology, or even the social applications. It's because these are not ready for market and anyone who makes the mistake of buying them is going to regard them as a $2000 paperweight by the end of week 1.

rpgbr8• 30 days ago

Why this post was flagged?

penguin_booze• 30 days ago

Clearly, someone was offended.

nickvec• 30 days ago

The glasses David Gilboa is sporting honestly don’t look that bad. I think putting them in the same “ugly” bucket as Snapchat’s SPECS is a bit of a reach.

deepfriedchokes• 30 days ago

This stuff is probably inevitable since economics will drive data collection. What we really need is a digital bill of rights to protect everyone. Recording in public without consent also needs to end.

gmueckl• 30 days ago

I feel like there is a lot pf potential for display-based AR in a glasses form factor. I wouldn't want to dismiss that outright. However, the concern about sensors (cameras and microphones) in the glasses is also real, despite them adding potentially the most value to those devices.

The tech will make its way into commercial applications and assistive technology. Beyind that, things can go a couple of ways:

- There is a killer application with mass appeal and thise glasses become common in public

- Consumer devices will lose their cameras due to large scale pushback. This will kill one of their major AI-related selling points (images as context). Microphines, although potentially equally intrusive, are more likely to stay.

- Comsumer devices will fade away in their entirety.

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