Oh shit, people think we’re creepy like flock. Let’s do what flock is working towards and drop the camera and move towards EVERY OTHER FORM OF FUCKING TRACKING AND SELLING DATA.
comes with wifi/lidar to "monitor surroundings as home wifi has been shown to form a picture based on the singals around the wifi hotspot.
I wonder what the fallout from all this failed voyerism tech will be? What unexpected uses will we find for this spy shit? Ruview already looks like an interesting alternative to mmWave security sensors. What else can we come up with?
If it wasn’t going through their servers, i could stand to use it for drone flights, augmented reality GPS directions, monitoring shit at work, I’d not even pull my phone out of my pocket if I could get away wiht it.
Exactly. Once they give up on it we’ll see copycat tech without their restrictions.
No camera but echo location like Rocky from Project Hail Mary
I don’t get the hate, I don’t have a set but for action sports and stuff these seem great. Video is legal in public and it’s not hard to spot camera glasses
You can also take any flagship smartphone with a wide-angle lens and aim it down at 45 degrees, video content straight ahead, and unwarp/crop it in software. Ever since the advent of the smartphone camera, people have been voyureing.
It does make problems, it makes the creeps a little more brazen. There are assholes going on dates with that shit, and there are people defeating the camera light. It feels creepier to the masses because it’s no longer surreptitious, but it’s only not blaringly obvious like holding a phone up (which they wrongly assume voyeurs are doing.
Video is not legal in public in some countries. In Germany, for example, it is illegal to film people on the street.
If you’re recording a building or something, and there are incidental people, that’s fine, but with these glasses you’re walking around pointing the camera directly at people.
Regardless, even where it’s legal, most people wouldn’t know how to recognize them. They’re not obvious. Which is how people have gotten away with wearing them to film children changing, and the giveaway was that the guy was following and staring at the children, not the glasses. https://www.wcvb.com/article/mark-sullivan-new-charges-boston-common/73790219
Prob shouldn’t be sold in germany then 🤷♂️ here in the USA it’s legal, every business has their own security cameras, as long as the government isint aggregating the video and using the data for mass surveillance I’m fine with it. My buddy has a pair we use to record our flights when we fly our aircraft together, it gets some really good footage honestly in a way that you don’t have to think about where to aim the camera or be something else to distract your focus, very important when flying a plane your hands are usually full. I think some of the interactions recorded with them as well from the first amendment auditors is fucking hilarious too
it’s how people are choosing to use it, it’s more stealthly that most people think, they aren’t THAT obvious, they really need some kind of very clear ‘this is a recording camera’ tell that can’t be turned off, no one who wants to do legit things with it would care. like how you can’t mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.
like how you can’t mute shutter sounds on phones sold in Japan.
Except by downloading any of hundreds of camera apps. The only non-mutable sound is on the phone’s native camera.
Just glass
If it’s from Meta in any way: No.
Same, even though that’s my favorite color :)
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”.
Don’t forget logging every Bluetooth and WiFi device (mobile and hardwired) with location and timestamp and sending it all to meta for “tailoring ads”
Kinda makes a body want to figure out some sort of RPi+battery+automated exploit doodad to throw in one’s backpack to confuse/brick/pwn the creeperShades
BLE spam is already a functionality of the Flipper Zero but I’m not sure how much it actually hinders the data harvesters
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.
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!
“They ‘trust me’. Fucking idiots.”
-Mark Zuckerberg
It’s not even the glasses alone, it’s that it’s one more major part of the ENTIRE surveillance state that is growing around us. It is being sold to us as this great new future, but we are all very aware of what they really intend to do with it, which is enslave us in every way possible.
They are denying it, of course, claiming that this will make our futures easier, and more fun, but we KNOW these people, and they are not interested in making our lives easier or more enjoyable. Just the opposite, in fact. They want us working every second of our miserable lives to increase their personal profits. To them, that’s ALL we are good for.
To us, they have ALL the money and power. Let’s take that from them before they use it to kill everyone who resists them, because we all KNOW that’s what’s coming.
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”.
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.
No. Glasses with always-on microphones, internet connectivity and logging everything anyone is doing themselves + the people around them. So not much better than the current ones.
Any stupid mofo wearing them Zuck specs, meet this kid:
Great! A product for people who may not be perverts but like sucking the cock of an evil corporation!
You gotta admit that’s a huge market.
Went to get glasses and made a big point of avoiding Ray Bands for taking Facebook money to make pervert glasses. Hoping it’s not the first time they’ve heard that.
I do actually like the classic nerd look of their glasses, but yeah, fuck that.
FYI, Ray Ban is just a brand name owned by the same company that owns most well known glasses brands.
Once you realize how consolidated the eyeglass industry is its a lot harder to find truly independent brands.
That’s why I cut out the middle man. I place a screen at a predictable distance from my face all the time and let the cameras autofocus. AI makes everyone hot too.
The ads are a bitch though, but the Ritalin I got from Hims helps.
I not only have to pay to see, but I have also to pay huge markups for it??? Fucking hell.
It was always weird to me how expensive glasses and lenses were, now I’m just pissed at being right.
Yep. I go to Costco now because I’m blind in one eye so the correction is only for the other eye. Costco only charges me 50% of the normal lens cost and the blind eye just gets a balance lens (weight matched to the other without correction).
I’ve walked out with a brand new pair of lenses and frames for $30 after my eye “insurance”.
Anyone reading this there is still value in undermining the investment the conglomerate made in purchasing raybans.
Noooo! Well, I tried. I can’t remember which I got, but not a brand I recognized. I’ll have to look them up
I had to get glasses for the first time, and the first ones i liked, just by looking at 1000 glasses and being completely lost were ray bens. I made an audible eew and kept looking. The lady was probably a bit confused
Congratulations on joining Team Four-Eyes.
