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I understand the gripes about Meta, but I don’t understand how everyone clowns on this like the core concept is stupid or unwanted.

Easy $1000 sell: cycling / escooter accessory. People already regularly buy expensive sport glasses just for sun and wind protection. With a smart version of them like this, you add open ear headphone, and you add the potential for navigation directions, or even a Bluetooth rear view camera on the back of your helmet to get a virtual mirror.

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thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The core technology is impressive, and has legitimate use cases.

But that doesn’t outweigh the enormous privacy concerns these devices raise. They aren’t being angled as an accessory for specific activities, but as everyday wearables. If smart glasses like these became common they would be unavoidable, creating leave of intrusion that’s concerning even without Meta being involved.

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OrgunDonor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
As a cyclist, this is a terrible sell. I already have tech which does all this, and probably does it better, for less.

I don’t need a HUD constantly in my face obscuring the beautiful views. I have sun glasses which fit well with a helmet and wrap around my face to keep the wind out.

I have a cycling computer, which offers GPS turn by turn, and pairs to power meters, heart rate and radar light. It is mounted on the handlebars in an easy to view place.

I have bone conducting headphones for music.

All of this is significantly less than $1000, and if something breaks, I can replace it all individually. I also don’t have to wear ridiculous looking sunglasses to listen to my bone conducting headphones.

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- MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.
  
  ‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’
  
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  - jve@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Exactly my first thought.
    
    Hope it doesn’t turn out the same way this time around
    
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    livejamie@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    You’d rather have a camera cell phone and mp3 player than a smartphone?
    
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  - magguzu@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Heh…these days I kinda long for devices for for specific purposes again 😅 and I’m a software engineer.
    
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- masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  As a cyclist, this is a terrible sell. I already have tech which does all this, and probably does it better, for less.
  
  Oh yeah, totally valid point you raise, I’m sure every single cyclist for all eternity going forward already owns every bit of cycling technology and no one will ever have to buy new ones.
  
  I mean why didn’t they ask whether or not /u/orgundonor already bought a cycling computer before they developed a new one? What were they possibly thinking???
  
  I don’t need a HUD constantly in my face obscuring the beautiful views.
  
  Yeah, good thing it’s a small transparent display that can just pop up a small arrow when you need it.
  
  I have sun glasses which fit well with a helmet and wrap around my face to keep the wind out.
  
  Yes, just like the cycling smart glasses that Meta released alongside these. Try and keep up.
  
  I have a cycling computer, which offers GPS turn by turn, and pairs to power meters, heart rate and radar light. It is mounted on the handlebars in an easy to view place.
  
  You know where’s easier to view?
  
  I have bone conducting headphones for music.
  
  Hey, everyone, check out this guy’s bone conduction headphones! See? No one cares.
  
  I also don’t have to wear ridiculous looking sunglasses to listen to my bone conducting headphones.
  
  LMFAO you bought cycling specific sunglasses. Yes, you already do look ridiculous. Everyone is already making your de France wannabe jokes about you, but you don’t care because they’re practical.
  
  Literally everything you said is just dumb hater bullshit. If I want to see someone be as pessimistic as possible to the point of being blindly inaccurate, I would just go rewatch black mirror.
  
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  - unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Literally everything you said is just dumb hater bullshit. You added nothing to the discussion.
    
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    masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Literally everything you said is just dumb hater bullshit. You added nothing to the discussion.
    
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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  We’re at the point now that we “need” 6 gadgets that do the same thing.
  
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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sell your bike to afford them. Easy. It’s another pointless gimmick, like 3D TV or the Metaverse and virtual shopping. Zuckerberg had one idea and got lucky, it’s been wasting money since.

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I agree that head mounted displays can be useful, I’m contemplating getting something like it, but just no cameras, please. not in the frame, not backwards, not anywhere.

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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you don’t have cameras you instantly lose a tonne of potential amazing functionality.
  
  If you’re in public you have no expectation of privacy, so someone being able to photograph you or record you with glasses is no different to being able to do it with a camera or phone.
  
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  - thatonecoder@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    People should still have an expectation of privacy in public spaces to some extent, otherwise the only way is to move to the foresf. One should not have to be concerned about being recorded, especially children (a pdfile can take photos to pick “targets”, so to speak).
    
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    d7sdx@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The pdfile will do it anyways. What concerns me is all those data will be streamed to Meta. They will relay it to Palantir. The best mass surveillance you can think of.
    
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horse@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To me it seems like a thing that sounds kinda cool on paper, but is not actually that useful in practice. We already have the ability to do real time translations or point the camera at something to get more information via AI with our smartphones, but who actually uses that on the regular? It’s just not useful or accurate enough in its current state and having it always available as a HUD isn’t going to change that imo. Being able to point a camera at something and have AI tell me “that’s a red bicycle” is a cool novelty the first few times, but I already knew that information just by looking at it. And if I’m trying to communicate with someone in a foreign language using my phone to translate for me, I’ll just feel like a dork.

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- AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  real time translations or point the camera at something to get more information via AI with our smartphones, but who actually uses that on the regular?
  
  Anybody living in a foreign country with a different language.
  
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  - Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Being able to read signs and storefronts from a motorbike in real time would be life-changing.
    
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