I just bought new glasses, so that will be a miss this time round, with the Whole frames, I’d be looking at a total of around 1,500€ (the current frames cost around 150€ and the total was over 1,200€), so I won’t be looking too replace them for 4-5 years…
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Apple Smart Glasses: Everything We Know About Apple's Answer to Meta Ray-Bans
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In the US, you have absolutely no expectation of privacy in public. Matter of fact, filming in public is a constitutional right.
Downvote me all you want but these are facts.
So you looked at what’s out there and predicted Apple will make there own. Not much of a rumour is it
Exactly! Who needs an AI to make these bullet-point articles? just adding:
9. Apple's glasses will launch at LOWEST PRICE EVER!
10. Also available: Apple iLabubu case for dangling battery.
While augmented reality overprint is a natural display for such glasses, it's very committing of Apple to degrade iPhone UX with such overprints on the phone screen (aka Liquid Glass). Is it Peak Screen already?
That may be one big reason why it WON’T be normalized. This would just seem plain weird in most corporate contexts or even social contexts where you don’t know everyone REALLY well. Sorry, not weird - just downright creepy.
AirPods don’t have a display either. This will be like AirPods plus cameras, which besides taking photos/videos will provide Visual Intelligence-like functionality. And even for just the non-visual AI assistant functions, some people with prefer using glasses over wearing AirPods all the time.
I completely agree.
Unless you have mobility issues and can’t hold a camera, what is the benefit of having one strapped to your head at all times? Even if you really need a wearable camera, there are multiple other options all with better image quality.
Glasses that incorporate a display, similar to what Google has been showing off lately, seem like a great idea with many different use cases. Without a display, it feels like companies are just trying to rush something to market.
So dumb.
Waiting for this product from Apple. Price might be $399 or even $499. Might launch only after Apple Intelligence improves a lot.
It’s ridiculous how long this will take after spending 5 years on the Vision Pro. They act like they never heard of glasses before and they’ll have to go through years of Research and Development. It’s like they can’t work on more than one thing at a time. And we STILL don’t have AI
Thats a misconception. We dont have Siri yet but we have many of the AI features.
If there is one positive out of this, hopefully I can watch a concert without everyone's phones in the way recording it
That's the future, no privacy. And it's 100% coming. Everything recorded from multiple angles everywhere, even in bathrooms. People will largely embrace it as they have cell phones, which intrusively make you available at all times--most don't even see the change in 20 years time as a negative at all. When's the last time you intentionally didn't take your phone with you?
Yep, this the story of Tim Cook's Apple. However, in his defense, people love their AirPods, AirTags, and Apple Watches despite them being the same basic story of following the market leaders and taking over. This is just what they are.
Using a cellphone camera is frowned upon and outright prohibited in some places, but these prohibitions are becoming increasingly uncommon--it will be the same with these. When you're in someone else's presence you will be recorded. The recordings will be saved, gone over by AI agents that analyze it and tag it with metadata. In places like China you may even have to answer for what's on it. People will come to understand why the wealthy build walls around their homes, but the masses--us--won't be able to do that. The panopticon will be decentralized and mined for advertisers.
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There are lots of positives. This is how AR begins, and AR is the biggest thing humans have ever done to date. It's putting us in the machine. Melding us with the internet. Not surprising many don't want it, but history shows that hasn't much mattered.
Very few people wanted cellphones. They didn't see the need for carrying a device whereby you could be contstantly reached, but it turned out to have its conveniences, even if a phone in every room already existed. To be personally reachable 24/7 provided some utility. And then smartphones came and most didn't see the appeal in having email always at hand. Didn't we already have computers in every room? And who liked email anyway? Why did we want or need texting when by then we had ubuitous cellphones anyway where we could call people if we wanted to discuss something? The internet and social media in your pocket; who wants to bother with taking photos of your food and posting it?...turns out a lot of people.
AR will customize reality for you, allow advertisers to target you better, make you safer, make you better at small talk, make you more productive at your job, and entertain you from the moment you wake.
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I don't know what the laws are like in the U.S. but that doesn't surprise me at all.
Luxottica owns just about every other brand out there, so I wonder as well. A lot of people don't know that.
Your likeness/image cannot be monetized by someone else without your consent, but that's about it. If you're in public you can't stop people from looking at you or recording you. Makes a lot of sense to me. But what about behind closed doors? I suspect it will work like recording of audio (generally allowed by any of the parties to a conversation but not a third party surreptitiously).
I’m not sure “allowing advertisers to target you better” is a positive. And I don’t think it will make people better at small talk if they are distracted by a screen in front of their eyes at the same time they’re trying to socially engage with someone - smartphones have had a huge negative impact on face-to-face social interaction. Eye-strain might become an issue, depending on how the display works and how your eyes perceive the display, the fact that you simultaneous trying to focus on something very close and other things further away. Your other points though are strong.
You should assume if you are anywhere other than your own home, you are being recorded.