Currently there's a massive, and understandable, backlash against the Meta/Ray-Ban glasses
Is there? "Massive?"
Outside of HN and a few tech pubs read by a statistically insignificant number of people, 99.9995% of people don't even know these exist.
Is there? "Massive?"
Outside of HN and a few tech pubs read by a statistically insignificant number of people, 99.9995% of people don't even know these exist.
Yes, I would consider that "massive" since none of them are HN readers nor work in any tech or media related fields.
my local gym has posters up forbidding them. my non-tech daughter has asked me about them. the college i teach at has policies about them.
their banned in courts in various countries. they've been criticized in mainstream outlets like the guardian, BBC, CNN, business insider, national post, yahoo, and the independent. (i dont think any of those outlets are reasonably considered "tech pubs read by a statistically insignificant number of people")
Thinking of pubs in a different sense of the word, even Wetherspoons has opinions about them: https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/wetherspoons-bans-meta-glasses...
You really think if I asked 200,000 people in my city, only one would have heard of Meta RayBans? when there are billboards, magazine ads, and window stickers in every glasses store? Couldn't tell you the real number but it's probably closer to 1 in 5.
Not uncommon, in comments like these, for there to be so many 9s that the population of Earth is exceeded.