MysteriousStain
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The news is just worse and worse every year. Heck, every month. Society is dying from a thousand cuts.
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Google's First AI Smart Glasses Launching This Fall With iPhone Support
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-BigMac-
macrumors 68030
As there is no screen - how will the user know when the camera/mic is being used? Don't worry about your google searches or cross app tracking - these glasses will be scanning everything all the time.
Robert.Walter
macrumors 68040
Perv goggles are just creepy. Their function is to evade the social stigma of recording people without consent.
People choose to act differently when someone is shoving a camera in their face. Walk up to anyone with your phone held up recording and you can see their reactions are different.
Tech like this exists to hide the cameras/sensors and deny the other person informed consent. It’s gross.
People choose to act differently when someone is shoving a camera in their face. Walk up to anyone with your phone held up recording and you can see their reactions are different.
Tech like this exists to hide the cameras/sensors and deny the other person informed consent. It’s gross.
dannyyankou
macrumors P6
dannyyankou
macrumors P6
I think the concept of smart glasses as a whole is dumb, but you can actually make an argument that it’s easier to discreetly record with a phone than glasses. Meta’s glasses flash lights when recording (no way to disable it either). Your phone doesn’t.
And especially with the zoom in some of these phones now, you can easily record someone without them knowing from a far distance. Even remotely, using the Apple Watch. Which is super creepy to think about, no doubt pervs have done that.
A little idiotic imo.
The camera in the earbuds is a better idea. You're not displaying anything so how you get the data isn't important. But this could be really useful. It's just these glasses.... I don't know. If they could make the camera in the buds work, these non-display glasses will be gone until they get a HUD
The camera in the earbuds is a better idea. You're not displaying anything so how you get the data isn't important. But this could be really useful. It's just these glasses.... I don't know. If they could make the camera in the buds work, these non-display glasses will be gone until they get a HUD
Yup. Has no one learned that glasses with cameras are socially hated and no amount of “Apple coolness” can make these palatable. Maybe in 20-40 years after people have become accustomed to a lack of privacy, but not today. (And I can imagine the EU outright banning products like these due to privacy reasons.)
I agree, but I will never accept lack of privacy so I will never accept glasses (wearables) with cameras in public.
Also I thought EU wasn't big on privacy?
Wow really. I've found it incredibly useful in both at my work and personal life. Saved so much time and it can do certain task much better than me. Sometimes it feels like a having a super power.
carswell
macrumors regular
DocMultimedia
macrumors 68030
From the sound of it not a single person here goes to a bar, never drives, doesn't use FaceID, never scanned their prints for TouchID, travelled overseas with a passport, visited the DMV for a license, or bought food at a major grocery store. Smart tech is everywhere if you don't live in the woods, and you wouldn't be on this site. Just deal with it you young folk. Things change. In my day a microwave oven was considered satanic. Do you use one of those?
Meanwhile, my straight up Ketel One with a twist is going down really well. I can't wait to have the Apple Glasses.
Meanwhile, my straight up Ketel One with a twist is going down really well. I can't wait to have the Apple Glasses.
TVreporter
macrumors 68030
Octavius8
macrumors 65816
Can't see (pun intended) any real use for me. Poor at music, poor at giving directions, poor at anything useful...
twinlight
macrumors 6502a
These guys would have used the built in camera for sure. 🙂
I am not completely against glasses with cameras and there will be some uses for it but it will also be a slippery slope of privacy concerns. Look at how people just cant leave there phones in the locker or bag when visiting a sauna or pool area with clear signage that phones are not allowed. Glasses will definitely be used here and people will reason that there is no sign against it. "Uh it says phones.. I got glasses.. no one cares, bla bla" sure naked people wont care..
I keep looking at the Meta glasses and the macrumors regarding the Appleglasses and don’t see ANY useful features. Those enter in the same category … am I missing something?
Big_D
macrumors 6502a
It is going to be a hard sell in many places, like most of the EU. You wouldn't be able to use them in public - taking pictures of people without permission is not allowed, there are some exceptions, such as people crossing the background of a scene when you are photographing, say, a national monument, but generally, if the person is identifiable, you need their permission to take the picture / upload it.
I need corrective lenses, so around 800€ on top of the frame price... For a product I couldn't use at home (my wife would kill me), I can't use at work (I'd lose my job, no cameras allowed in many areas, we even have to leave our phones behind, when we enter certain areas) and I can't really use them in public either...
I need corrective lenses, so around 800€ on top of the frame price... For a product I couldn't use at home (my wife would kill me), I can't use at work (I'd lose my job, no cameras allowed in many areas, we even have to leave our phones behind, when we enter certain areas) and I can't really use them in public either...
lemoncrsh
macrumors member
So to add to the people who always use phones on speaker in public places, we’re now going to have people with glasses on speaker in public places.
Great.
Great.