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There is one feature I want from a product like this and that is to use facial recognition to remind me of the person's name. I have always been terrible at names (I think I'm a little bit face blind as well) and being able to remember everyone's name is such a super power.

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Some significant development needed before this can be done ethically (asking everyone you are talking to to consent to having their names and faces matched at your service provider cloud is likely more awkward than asking what their name was again).

In theory that feature is possible to do in a privacy-respecting manner but that will certainly not be introduced by Meta.

Seems like if they are one of my linked-in contacts or Facebook friend and they have their face publicly available on their profile, then it would be fair game.

Have met someone that mentioned using them for taking photos of their kid while playing together in a hands-free way to capture cute moments but it sounded very much like a hobbyist use case not their intended purpose necessarily.

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