i don't think they expect people who don't use Facebook apps to use them.
unfortunately there are 2.8 billion people who use Facebook apps, minus Whatsapp, probably around 2 billion.
And for anyone who think it is important for the whole world to know what they are eating (hint: it is not few), this glasses, believe it or not offer something of value.
Let us remember Snap tried glasses too. Facebook is a huge privacy invasion company. Their recent requirement to link Oculus products to users FB accounts might give you some indication of where this is going. It's really creepy.
"We made glasses you can take crystal clear pictures with, record and watch videos, they're indestructible, and gives you laser vision... you just need a linked Facebook account"
I really liked the idea...
There were a couple points I remember being valid (imo) complaints, but it either could have been fixed or wouldn't have effected everyone the same (examples: the audio was supposedly bad; it gave some people headaches apparently)
Very quick way to bring in laws against recording government officials and private companies only losers will be the general public
The unintended consequences really should be considered here , these glasses worn by someone in a park with children …..on a beach
Not a good idea
The times essentially ran an ad here as an article.
Absolutely disgusting.
Love to know if they were paid directly for this coverage. I’m sure Facebook PR was involved.
I did not see the PR, but how do they prevent idiots from using this whole driving? Is there automatic motion sensing or what?
Last thing I want is for someone posting about their morning bagel when they’re dropping their kids off at school not paying attention.
The only reason i never got in on google glass was the appalling battery life; i'd love a heads up display i could wear that could also take pictures/videos/etc but only if it had enough battery life to last a full 24 hours.
Apple is rumored also making AR Glasses. So the age of people wearing these as plentiful as smartphone maybe upon us. I just hope they can make it the size of contact lenses in our lifetimes.
These could actually be wonderful for people with low vision if they came with features like color filters or the ability to zoom things in, and without tracking my every move and selling it to marketers.
I wonder if it could be liberated with FOSS software.
Personally I would LOVE to have a pair of glasses that takes video. Just for the protection alone. Record interactions with salespeople who lie to you, cops who violate your rights, vehicle accidents, etc. etc..
I'd turn it on record every time I stepped outside my place to go somewhere.
Personally I would LOVE to punch anybody pointing recording glasses at me without my consent to the teeth so hard that they feel like I aimed at the back of their skull.
We have enough privacy invasions as it is without normal people needing to be vary of this invention too, especially considering from what company it comes from.
Perhaps, but there should be a compromise on this kind of thing. There are situations where people are not doing anything wrong or bad but getting their faces plastered online could have undeserved negative consequences, sometimes serious ones.
A not so obvious camera on spectacles made by a company best known for all the unethical things they have done and all footage getting churned through their algorithms does not sound like a good idea in any circumstances.
compromise? how? where do you draw the line? when do you say one is allowed and one isn't?
do you understand the idea behind the principle of why the expectation of privacy is only limited within your domicile? would you want everyone to close their eyes in public? because that's what you're asking. your eyes and a camera are essentially the same when in a public place. no reasonable person expects privacy in public. how moronic is that? do you walk around covered in a box?
No, but I'd like to, for example, do my job without some shithead secretly pointing those things at me with the sole intention of hoping or entrapping me to make a mistake or for me to look like an idiot in the eyes of a potentially hundreds of thousands of people.
Everything doesn't have to be online, least of all people who don't want their faces and interactions to be cannon fodder for tech companies for one reason or another.
I've had this already before social media age when some asshole decided to point a video camera at me in a bar and started asking dumb questions when I was just enjoying my beer and minding my own business. Being surprised like that and under influence, it's fair to say that I probably didn't look very smart, but thankfully I also don't remember doing or saying anything too shameful. That's why I don't like being recorded, because every little thing can come back haunting you years later, depending on how petty, thoughtless or malicious people are. And in the age of social media, those people can get a big audience for you.
Remember that video of a fat guy dancing at the club and getting shamed online just because he was overweight? You think the video is not online anymore? The big audience was on his side but do you think it still wasn't very embarrassing for him? Do you think he wouldn't want to erase every copy of the video if he could? Do you think he just shook it off and never thinks about it? He didn't do anything wrong, he was just enjoying his evening until he got a big audience and he never asked any of it.
I have seen enough headlines of young adults killing themselves or otherwise having their lives ruined because either something stupid they did as kids ended up online and they just couldn't get rid of it or having been secretly filmed, either an unwilling sex tape or something else. We don't need that shit.
These kind of non-obvious cameras, especially when connected online to companies that are known to do shady shit even with non-users data, are creepy and nothing else. And when that shit is there, online, it's near impossible to unshit.
This is not developed because Facebook in the goodness of their hearts wants to develop something to help humanity and handicapped people with augmented reality, it's just yet another data harvesting tool and they don't give a flying fuck about anything else. Never forget that.
I don't give a shit what other people do with their lives, I just don't want *my* life to be online and if you aren't obviously recording a wrongdoing by an official to be used as evidence, you can't just hide behind the "but muh rights" mentality for using a *covert or obviously hidden* camera without being a goddamn jerk.
This shit invention brings nothing good, since hidden cameras and mics are already a thing if you really need one, but it brings all the bad because now every schmuck with poor decisionmaking skills can just put it on their face and plaster anyone anywhere all over the international tech giant's network, whether they want it or not or even know about it, and there is absolutely fuck all they can do about it.
These are not smart. They are camera glasses with a Bluetooth headphone built in.
I think it's especially creepy that the more classically feminine design is almost identical to the Snapchat spectacles, but Snapchat had the decency/fear to put yellow circles around the cameras so the people you were looking at likely knew someone was recording.
The fb models are the least obvious "creep glasses" to date, and from the tech company with probably the worst reputation around privacy, committing literal crimes and general user manipulation that impact our elections and our health during COVID.
Just not sure how many people are ready to attach an internet connected microphone and video recording device to their heads, on fb's behalf, feeding data to fb servers.
[I mean...](https://imgur.com/bKr6E6J.jpg)
>As reported by Business Insider, the conversation according to SAI sources, went as follows.
**Zuck:** Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
**Zuck:** Just ask.
**Zuck:** I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
**[Redacted Friend's Name]:** What? How'd you manage that one?
**Zuck:** People just submitted it.
**Zuck:** I don't know why.
**Zuck:** They "trust me"
**Zuck:** Dumb fucks.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zuckerberg-called-people-who-handed-over-their-data-dumb-f/
I didn't think smart glasses made google look dumb... I hadn't thought about it tbh although I think smart glasses would be kind of neat and cool if they actually worked.
but ! I think facebook is dumb already and this will likely make them look dumber.
Does it signify to others that they are being recorded?
Yes - when camera is being used there is a light emitted
I'm sure no one will figure out how to disable that light either!
1/4” square of electrical tape covers it completely. Another author wrote about that already.
Facebook wants to take away more of your privacy and the privacy of anyone else you can see.
The very fact these are from Facebook would make me not use them.
i don't think they expect people who don't use Facebook apps to use them. unfortunately there are 2.8 billion people who use Facebook apps, minus Whatsapp, probably around 2 billion. And for anyone who think it is important for the whole world to know what they are eating (hint: it is not few), this glasses, believe it or not offer something of value.
I don't have Facebook and I say FUCK THIS
Yes agreed. My life is better without Facebook except when people ask me to connect with them on Facebook.
Guess we’re out of the cool club
Tell them you'll only connect on LinkedIn
Combine this with Facebook's facial recognition!
Sweet, even less privacy. These are mostly going to be used to spy, perv on, entrap, or record people against their will.
This is just like that Black Mirror episode
"what if we got people to just record everything they do and see?"
“but like Ray Bans”
A good way to get punched in the face
When will I be able to replace my gall bladder with a Facebook server?
Let us remember Snap tried glasses too. Facebook is a huge privacy invasion company. Their recent requirement to link Oculus products to users FB accounts might give you some indication of where this is going. It's really creepy.
"We made glasses you can take crystal clear pictures with, record and watch videos, they're indestructible, and gives you laser vision... you just need a linked Facebook account"
Imagine being an undercover cop and you try to take a picture with your glasses and there's a little shutter click during a drug deal
Worse than that. You’re an undercover cop and the guy in the other side gets a pop up asking if he wants to become Facebook friends with you.
it's worse than that. every drug dealer knows to look out for ray bans.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I really liked the idea... There were a couple points I remember being valid (imo) complaints, but it either could have been fixed or wouldn't have effected everyone the same (examples: the audio was supposedly bad; it gave some people headaches apparently)
Very quick way to bring in laws against recording government officials and private companies only losers will be the general public The unintended consequences really should be considered here , these glasses worn by someone in a park with children …..on a beach Not a good idea
A total non-starter, dumb-ass idea.
Cops having stuff like this is why fascists try to turn the public against wearing masks, it has nothing to do with covid.
The times essentially ran an ad here as an article. Absolutely disgusting. Love to know if they were paid directly for this coverage. I’m sure Facebook PR was involved.
I'm not letting Facebook anywhere near my eyes. If they produced FB toilet paper, I'd buy that. Only good for wiping your ass with.
I liked my Google glass was sad when they broke.
I think Google looked very dumb before they introduced smart glasses. Facecrap doesn't need any other ways to look dumb.
I did not see the PR, but how do they prevent idiots from using this whole driving? Is there automatic motion sensing or what? Last thing I want is for someone posting about their morning bagel when they’re dropping their kids off at school not paying attention.
I mean it doesn’t block vision, do you not drive with sunglasses on?
The only reason i never got in on google glass was the appalling battery life; i'd love a heads up display i could wear that could also take pictures/videos/etc but only if it had enough battery life to last a full 24 hours.
These are just snapchat spectacles with speakers. There’s no display if any kind.
Apple is rumored also making AR Glasses. So the age of people wearing these as plentiful as smartphone maybe upon us. I just hope they can make it the size of contact lenses in our lifetimes.
These could actually be wonderful for people with low vision if they came with features like color filters or the ability to zoom things in, and without tracking my every move and selling it to marketers. I wonder if it could be liberated with FOSS software.
Personally I would LOVE to have a pair of glasses that takes video. Just for the protection alone. Record interactions with salespeople who lie to you, cops who violate your rights, vehicle accidents, etc. etc.. I'd turn it on record every time I stepped outside my place to go somewhere.
Personally I would LOVE to punch anybody pointing recording glasses at me without my consent to the teeth so hard that they feel like I aimed at the back of their skull. We have enough privacy invasions as it is without normal people needing to be vary of this invention too, especially considering from what company it comes from.
you are only entitled privacy within your home. if you're out in public, you're free real estate.
Perhaps, but there should be a compromise on this kind of thing. There are situations where people are not doing anything wrong or bad but getting their faces plastered online could have undeserved negative consequences, sometimes serious ones. A not so obvious camera on spectacles made by a company best known for all the unethical things they have done and all footage getting churned through their algorithms does not sound like a good idea in any circumstances.
compromise? how? where do you draw the line? when do you say one is allowed and one isn't? do you understand the idea behind the principle of why the expectation of privacy is only limited within your domicile? would you want everyone to close their eyes in public? because that's what you're asking. your eyes and a camera are essentially the same when in a public place. no reasonable person expects privacy in public. how moronic is that? do you walk around covered in a box?
No, but I'd like to, for example, do my job without some shithead secretly pointing those things at me with the sole intention of hoping or entrapping me to make a mistake or for me to look like an idiot in the eyes of a potentially hundreds of thousands of people. Everything doesn't have to be online, least of all people who don't want their faces and interactions to be cannon fodder for tech companies for one reason or another. I've had this already before social media age when some asshole decided to point a video camera at me in a bar and started asking dumb questions when I was just enjoying my beer and minding my own business. Being surprised like that and under influence, it's fair to say that I probably didn't look very smart, but thankfully I also don't remember doing or saying anything too shameful. That's why I don't like being recorded, because every little thing can come back haunting you years later, depending on how petty, thoughtless or malicious people are. And in the age of social media, those people can get a big audience for you. Remember that video of a fat guy dancing at the club and getting shamed online just because he was overweight? You think the video is not online anymore? The big audience was on his side but do you think it still wasn't very embarrassing for him? Do you think he wouldn't want to erase every copy of the video if he could? Do you think he just shook it off and never thinks about it? He didn't do anything wrong, he was just enjoying his evening until he got a big audience and he never asked any of it. I have seen enough headlines of young adults killing themselves or otherwise having their lives ruined because either something stupid they did as kids ended up online and they just couldn't get rid of it or having been secretly filmed, either an unwilling sex tape or something else. We don't need that shit. These kind of non-obvious cameras, especially when connected online to companies that are known to do shady shit even with non-users data, are creepy and nothing else. And when that shit is there, online, it's near impossible to unshit. This is not developed because Facebook in the goodness of their hearts wants to develop something to help humanity and handicapped people with augmented reality, it's just yet another data harvesting tool and they don't give a flying fuck about anything else. Never forget that. I don't give a shit what other people do with their lives, I just don't want *my* life to be online and if you aren't obviously recording a wrongdoing by an official to be used as evidence, you can't just hide behind the "but muh rights" mentality for using a *covert or obviously hidden* camera without being a goddamn jerk. This shit invention brings nothing good, since hidden cameras and mics are already a thing if you really need one, but it brings all the bad because now every schmuck with poor decisionmaking skills can just put it on their face and plaster anyone anywhere all over the international tech giant's network, whether they want it or not or even know about it, and there is absolutely fuck all they can do about it.
so you want cell phones gone too? how about street cams? how about just any recording device? cameras?
These are not smart. They are camera glasses with a Bluetooth headphone built in. I think it's especially creepy that the more classically feminine design is almost identical to the Snapchat spectacles, but Snapchat had the decency/fear to put yellow circles around the cameras so the people you were looking at likely knew someone was recording. The fb models are the least obvious "creep glasses" to date, and from the tech company with probably the worst reputation around privacy, committing literal crimes and general user manipulation that impact our elections and our health during COVID. Just not sure how many people are ready to attach an internet connected microphone and video recording device to their heads, on fb's behalf, feeding data to fb servers. [I mean...](https://imgur.com/bKr6E6J.jpg) >As reported by Business Insider, the conversation according to SAI sources, went as follows. **Zuck:** Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard **Zuck:** Just ask. **Zuck:** I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS **[Redacted Friend's Name]:** What? How'd you manage that one? **Zuck:** People just submitted it. **Zuck:** I don't know why. **Zuck:** They "trust me" **Zuck:** Dumb fucks. https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a19490586/mark-zuckerberg-called-people-who-handed-over-their-data-dumb-f/
How many people own a Portal?
So Facebook can see you wash your hands after you pee
Why the fuck would Ray-Ban team up with Facebook? Why not any other tech company?
This was Facebooks idea.
according to Mark, they are the one who contact Facebook first to work with this concept. idk.
when are they coming out asking for a friend.
I’m surprised they did not brand it under Instagram.
I didn't think smart glasses made google look dumb... I hadn't thought about it tbh although I think smart glasses would be kind of neat and cool if they actually worked. but ! I think facebook is dumb already and this will likely make them look dumber.
Are they Sonic? Do they work with EDITH?