jenny (phire)Mar 3

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too

Not for your eyes only.

Gizmodo
Show threadBen Zanin

@phire I've been waiting years for head mounted displays like the ones from XReal and Viture to get good enough that I could keep a pair in my bag and use them for working around town from my phone, without having to lug around a laptop. No interest in AR and "smart glasses".

And bullshit like this has poisoned that well entirely. I will now never be able to wear anything in public that looks like smart glasses without (correctly) attracting social opprobrium.

These finks make me so mad.

Mar 4 at 1:05pmTusky
Show threadRead along with MattMar 4
@gnomon @phire I've been using XReal glasses as my main screen for about a year, and I can confirm that the biggest downside is having to say "don't worry, there's no camera or anything creepy" every damn time a new human sees me
Show threadBen ZaninMar 5

I have not seen many people in the real world using head mounted displays / smart glasses. (Outside of work, which is decidedly not the real world.) In fact only two:

1. A front desk hotel clerk wearing a pair of Facebook glasses (I truly wonder how many laws he was breaking in how many jurisdictions by just looking at credit cards...)

2. A drone operator at the nazi rally at Christie Pits last summer who was busily recording the faces of all the folks yelling at the nazis

Bad track record.