It's so sad they felt okay with unveiling these with the horrible aesthetics and no guarantees anywhere in plain sight on privacy.
Elaborate. Do you mean this with regards to the data that users will generate when using the device? Or the privacy of the people around the wearer?
I try hard to be kind, but I will have very little patience for any individual who wears always-on cameras that infringe on my privacy. I don't use social media for a reason. Meta just wants to sell surveillance devices so they can collect more data, and will try to convince us it is for our benefit.
Do you not consider HN social media?
Not funded by ads, not about building a network of 'friends'. I consider HN more of a link sharing site.
HN is as much social media as any other platforms: traffic driven by popularity, echo chamber, bias, or algorithm.
HN is not a link sharing site. The links aren’t organized by natural order such as the alphabet. You aren’t here for the links, but for the comments.
Sites like FB were referred to as social networking. But then the terms got conflated.
Overall i dont care to film or take pics of anyone but what im experiencing in life and those Im with. No doubt that's how what the majority of Meta Ray ban wearings are using their smart glasses too.
A year of wearing them and fairly often smart glasses are the next big thing yet they will not replace the smart phone as these tech dudes say they will. You can not take a selfies with smart glasses and we are narcissistic beings.
I'm not a violent person but wouldn't rule out using my fists if someone was filming me or my kids. That said, I live in Japan, so they'll more than likely be banned or heavily restricted like other devices used to make covert recordings.
And yeah like in the future, these will shrink in size. Probably by half in five years. Remember in 2018 when we were wondering if we'd ever have the compute available to do "inside out tracking"? Now it's expected as a minimum requirement. How far we've come.
They look like what army personnel used to call “birth control glasses”. Only extra thick for added protection.
Ugh. My own petard.
It's just to show what's possible, and to presumably jump the gun on their competitors