Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a company with no morals, but the product isn’t stupid, and neither is the way the company operates or the people who run it.

  Don’t under estimate your adversary.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah.

    They’re about the last company in the world I would want to use this with.

    Also, you should take these off when you pee.

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• individual@toast.ooo ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  more evil than stupid IMHO, but otherwise agree

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How are smart glasses evil?

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    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re literal always-on surveillance that can collect faces, voices and things like local Bluetooth devices or WiFi APs as they walk around.

      Surveillance-capitalism wet dream, because they don’t just collect data on the wearer - but everyone they come near.

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So they’re phones that people hold slightly more vertically?

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    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They’re cameras and microphones and local compute that you don’t actually control rented from an evil corporation.

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So an Android phone?

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    • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      not the glasses per se, the company behind them, their design and their goals for the glasses are evil

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