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I'm excited about the use cases, and leery-but-cautiously-optimistic about tying the experience to meta, but am I the only one worried about buying hardware from a company that's synonymous with monopolistic price-gouging?

(Ray-Ban is owned by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica )

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I'm sorry, but cautiously optimistic about tying the experience to meta?

You must be the only one not worried about buying hardware from a company that's synonymous with blatant privacy violations.

(Meta is owned by https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zucker...)

Ray Ban Wayfarer's are $171 without the included tech.[1] The included 12mp camera, 5 mic system, network connectivity, battery, microelectronics small enough to be hidden in fashionable eyewear all seem to add up to more than $128 worth of value. It seems to me that these are subsidized by Meta. I'll leave it to the reader to speculate on why Meta would do such a thing.

1. https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/sunglasses/RB2140%20UNISEX%20ori...

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