Until and unless a patch is provided to remove the need for meta I see no point in these glasses.
A free and open firmware hack would make them way more interesting
Even then, you know that these glasses are going to be priced in such a way that is subsidized by data harvesting somehow.
It’s still Facebook and I’m still not giving them a camera and mic on my face.
Well ahead of Apple
Is this supposed to indicate that Meta is beating Apple to market?
Because I’ve got news for you then, neither are “first”, and it’s completely irrelevant which is first, if they can’t present a strong use case, which all previous attempts have failed at.This sounds a lot like Google Glasses, so kind of funny how they come full circle now? 🤣
At least google glasses were dorky
I want the dorky google glasses or something that has a more free operating system thingee
Bloomberg has shared reports from unnamed insiders that the device, codenamed Hypernova, is expected to launch later this year and will feature a monocular design, as in it will use only one display rather than a pair of screens – two details we’ve already heard.
This single panel would sit in the lower-right corner of the right lens, so it should allow you conveniently see information by looking down without obscuring your vision greatly.
It sounds like they’re kinda trying to compete with the watch market or something. Like, not trying to display something that you’d spend your whole time looking at, or even a virtual overlay, but just some status information that you can glance at without being super-obvious about it.
They also have cameras. I don’t totally get the use case for cameras plus single screen on lens. I guess maybe you could take a picture of someone’s face, upload the photo to Meta, do facial recognition on it, and then have personal details sent back to the screen at the bottom of your right eye. Like, maybe that’d be useful for people who don’t want to be in a position of awkwardly forgetting names or security personnel or something.
EDIT: Or maybe people who want to photograph people without it being obvious that they’re doing so, and want to have some kind of status display that they can use to see what their camera is doing?
Just seems like an odd combination of features.
EDIT2: Not to mention whatever they’re paying for the Ray-Ban branding, so they’re probably not pushing for a really price-sensitive use case.
So it’s Google Glass.
That’s literally just Google Glass.
Who would even want that?
This is much more innovative than Google Glass, it’s now in the bottom right corner. That’s what 13 years of innovation looks like. /s
Meta helped fuck over the global economy. Why does Meta think anyone cares about their fucking AR spy glasses at a time when severe global recession is expected to hit?
Meta helped fuck over the global economy.
What?
EDIT: You mean them spending a lot of money on VR stuff without it really generating a return?
No I mean them buying a seat at Trump’s inauguration, rolling back DEI commitments / departments, ushering in AI to lay off thousands, and all the privacy / security issues they already do.
And turning social media into a propaganda platform.
Also creating a platform perfectly designed for spreading false information and also helping genocide in certain countries
Great point. There’s a reason that boomers are intractably captured by Facebook.
