Any stupid mofo wearing them Zuck specs, meet this kid:
Why do you need glasses at all for a version with no camera? Can’t someone just wear earbuds in that case? Can’t someone’s regular bluetooth (or even tethered) earbuds just talk to the phone in their pocket to do everything?
“Oh, don’t worry, these are actually the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™. They’re actually pretty innovative! I can go off-grid while still feeling so connected to all my feeds! Instead of recording to the cloud, I can use my new Freedoms©®™ to record moments directly to my brain using the new Facebook BAM technology. Yup, these babies don’t have a single semiconductor, but Zuck still managed to somehow run Brain Access Memory on them! The best part is how cheap they are! Nearly half the price, and you get a 10% discount on their AI subscription since these glasses don’t actually transfer any data. But that subscription lets the Meta Glasses Freedom©®™ assist me with directly accessing memories whether the glasses were present or not! It’s a pretty sweet deal, if you really think about it.”
My favourite part of this is that Zuck was so out of ideas that he tried to reinvent Google Glass at great expense and is running into exactly the same social brick wall that project did.
To be fair, people have become more stupid / subservient, to the point I can see why someone would think “let’s try that again”.
People this fucking stupid shouldn’t have this much wealth and power
So… Glasses?
Not unless your normal glasses do all this: “The camera-free glasses, code-named Luna, will still feature an array of six microphones to allow users to speak to the company’s AI chatbot and its recently-released AI assistant, called Muse. They’ll presumably pick up audio from users’ environments as well, where bystanders may not be aware of the eavesdropping.”
What I love about the internet sometimes is that the literal thought that I had - the literal comment, character for character - I wanted to make is already here.
How does this beat a glasses and earphone combo. You take the glasses off but still enjoy the use of the earphones that way.
This is still surveillance, just with audio instead of video.
But this actually creates a new problem: wearers of pervert glasses have plausible deniability. “Are you filming me?” “Who, me? Oh no, these ones don’t have cameras. Trust me”.
Yep, it’s just meant to muddy the waters. Pretty common tactic, especially from these big tech companies.
I think the new problem is exactly what they want to achieve.
I think so too.
If it’s from Meta in any way: No.
No camera but it will six microphones.
And a camera!
Not a camera! A ‘digital imaging device’. With AI!. Thats constantly connected! And it all happens on device! Encrypted for your safety! Trust us bro!
Lidar glasses incoming
So your telling me I can go into a mirror maze and not be so nervous? Psh, finally found a use case. Wait how much are they?.. nevermind
So how about those state all-party-consent wiretap laws?
I see audio scrambler projects blowing up in the near future.
To be fair, this is not that different from the always-on, always-listening phones in everyone’s hands now.
It’s drastically different, wtf are you on about
In what way?
Are we assuming that phones aren’t listening all the time and glasses are?
Or that you can theoretically turn off always listening on phones but not on glasses?
Or that the phones are Apple / Google / Samsung, etc, but the glasses are Meta, so that’s different?
Or just that phones are already out of the barn, and one listening device per person is bad enough, but glasses we will have a chance to regulate with common sense data privacy laws?
Other folks covered it better than I can
I mean, your phone isn’t constantly pointing his cameras at other people’s face and using meta’s database to gather information on the people you’re filming, that’s already a big difference.
Then you have different options to deGAFAM your phones. I personalky use graphene but I get most people are not there yet.
Don’t get me wrong, phones are obviously the most common spying devices out there, but jt’s definitely not to the level of these dystopian glasses.
That is a good point about having graphene as an option on some phones.
I was talking about the version of the glasses that will be sold without cameras.
