Ray-Ban Meta Glasses get new features and increased availability Comments
- Anonymous
- 38@
Another trick that won't do you any good, thanks Meta. If you're in regular contact with people who don't speak your language, you'll learn theirs in a matter of months (especially if you like these people). Instead of buying their stuff, which will easily cost several hundred euros and help ruin the environment, use that money to travel and do your own translations without your privacy being exploited by Meta.
- Anonymous
- 7@8
cheezo, 24 Apr 2025my only problem is that google glass was killed on arrival due to privacy concerns and people ... moreBecause Zuck can control a positive image of his products on two of the most popular social media services in the world? Google hadn't quite figured that out back in the days when they launched.
- Anonymous
- 0p}
cheezo, 24 Apr 2025my only problem is that google glass was killed on arrival due to privacy concerns and people ... moreThese are discrete enough that you don't know they can take photos or record videos unlike the Google glasses that made people look like cyborgs. Most of the time, people don't know they're smart glasses.
- cheezo
- gya
my only problem is that google glass was killed on arrival due to privacy concerns and people being creeped out by it, as awesome as it was. it least it had a built in display and you could remove the device and attach it to any frames you have.
how come these were so celebrated? and why isn't anybody competing?
- Anonymous
- M5C
That was perhaps too dismissive. Here are concrete reasons to hate these, as cool as the idea and product themselves are:
Let's not normalize using a company's name as a wake word. Better yet, let's not use a wake word at all by default, so you have to opt in to annoying others by abruptly talking to your own face as you go about your day.
There's the entire dialogue of your personal privacy and your own data's worth as well as whether there's a remote possibility a government decides to make use of its army of portable surveillance cameras and whether you'd even know it happens. You think Meta got rich by selling lemonade on the corner?
Next, let's ding this trillion dollar engineering company for only supporting English for music apps and four EU-/US-centric languages despite unfettered access to everything they'd need for supporting at least the world's 15 or 20 most popular languages. Region-locking features is also on-brand for FAANG. Yawn.
Right... engineering... Bluetooth 5.2?? The nRF54 and STM32WBA6 have been accessible to companies for about a year (longer if you count pre-tapeout reference manuals) and later BT versions give more design flexibility w.r.t. security, efficiency, range, throughput, and/or device interaction. Meta has one of the most permissive licenses with Arm and whole teams of architecture experts. They could develop a state-of-the-art circuit board but don't. The reason they use old tech? Laziness. Inertia. Lack of inspiration.
Water resistance? IPx4. You're not gonna look like Tom Cruise anymore when you meet a rainstorm and need to park your motorcycle under a bridge because you can't ride with Metaglasses in the rain and can't ride without your prescription sunglasses.
I'd rather see: a well-thought strategy for handling loss and theft; an open API so users aren't reliant on Facebook/Instagram for functionality; examples of how this would help persons with disabilities; some semblance of water resistance; users that don't defend lack of engineering prowess by stating you can just get a warranty to replace them when they break (Thanks for the extra e-waste, fellow humans); an LED that can also be a flashlight or message indicator; implementing a provably secure/reliable method of allowing businesses and government buildings to disable sensors inside their boundaries. (This last one is simply another revenue stream for Meta: selling block-boxes for thousands to places accessible to the public where someone would still actually expect full privacy e.g. doctor's office, courthouse, bank, voting booth, restrooms, strip club, daycare playgrounds, etc.)
At the end of the day? Me complaining doesn't change that these exist and have some nice functionality. I'm shouting into the wind, wasting energy that could be better spent on engineering.
At least you're gonna look cool AF while making Zuck rich enough to buy all of Kauai and build a spaceship to Mars!
- Cpt.Power
- SH3
Sounds interesting but in the end they are useless as the previous Google glass were.
In the world where 100% of the population would speak natively one samme language it would be make and made any sense in this world i see no piont for such device to exist.
- Anonymous
- M5C
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