Battery math still kills a lot of these pitches. 1 hour of 16 kHz mono audio is only about 58 MB raw, but continuous ASR plus camera inference is what cooks the thermals. curious which workload they think stays under a 2 to 3 W budget on-face all day?
I predict that wire-rimmed and rimless glasses will become popular so people can signal that they are not pervs or narcs.
That's not to say that you shouldn't be careful how you use these glasses. Meta doesn’t have the greatest track record on privacy, and the company has continued to push forward with policies that are questionable at best. Even if you’re not concerned that face recognition will allow Meta to target immigrants or enable stalkers to find their victims, at the very least, people really do not like the idea that you could start recording them at any moment.
Probably the biggest hurdle to wearing Meta glasses is that even doing so seems like a gross violation of the social contract. After all, these are Mark Zuckerberg's “pervert glasses.” When I pop these on my head, I’ve had friends (and my spouse) recoil and say, “I have apps to warn me away from people like you.” The best part, though, is that Oakley and Ray-Ban already make really great sunglasses. Even if the battery runs out or you don't use Meta AI at all, these are stellar at shading your eyes from the sun
This is the most extensive disclaimer I’ve ever seen in a buying guide. www.wired.com/story/best-m...
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
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"design" is interesting here. They have designers working on parts at a time, UX, hardware, software, aesthetics, but these groups are not united by an overarching (marketable) purpose, they are detached from the bigger picture and designing for their domain purposes
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This is quite a different scenario, but I think about this in the context of single-use plastics, it's essentially impossible to regulate them at the consumer level, they must be regulated at the manufacturer level.
design is whatever is done to satisfy a *fixed* purpose. Find the root, fixed, purpose and you will find the real designer.
Every other transient use case they throw out there as a selling point is a distraction from that reality.
9/x
“Now the company has announced ‘c. ai Books,’ a bizarre feature designed to turn books into ‘choose your own adventure’ novels.”
I'm very ready to read your book
haha this one got me going. Thanks for sharing it!
Not to mention the way that the surveillance has been forced on workers in Kenya, who are having to watch the output from these glasses and “be the AI” to make it work. So much “AI” technology isn’t even AI in the first place.
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Succinctly articulates something I try to point out all the time. They exist to forward Zuck’s agenda. People will find ways to use them, but they are fundamentally an anti social technology that exists to erode consent.
design is whatever is done to satisfy a *fixed* purpose. Find the root, fixed, purpose and you will find the real designer.
Every other transient use case they throw out there as a selling point is a distraction from that reality.
9/x
we have to suffer products like the meta glasses existing because they are not designed by people with "design" in their titles. The people we call "designers" are tasked with making them functional, usable, and, most of all, palatable.
8/x
are you thinking what I'm thinking
This device should not exist because it *can't* exist without a market of perverted individuals.
It will be marketed for sports, for health, for fashion, for safety, but it is not *designed* to satisfy those purposes and will never be optimised to.
7/x
Gadgetry is still a product, like any other. It is not immune to the requirements for viability.
Fashion is a purpose different to usefulness. It works to a different tempo and lifecycle. Especially when it is on your face, always visible.
6/x
The meta glasses have no socially justifiable purpose to exist. They only exist for Mark Zuckerberg's purposes and they can only sell outside of a novelty capacity to people who want to use them for socially hostile purposes.
5/x
This makes for a product which *hopes* for fashion as a selling point to socially empathetic people.
But, really, it's a product which *relies* on socially hostile buyers who find value in the technology features and invisibility of the device's capabilities behind the fashion.
4/x
AI glasses blend form and function, helping you stay connected and present – in style
Stay connected more easily than ever Discreet open-ear speakers let you take calls that only you'll hear, and send and receive messages across a variety of apps – all hands-free.
Ask your glasses anything with Hey Meta Chat with Meta AI to get suggestions, answers, reminders and more.
Capture high-quality photos and videos Use voice controls to record and share hands-free, and stay in the moment.
All of the offered use cases (see bsky.app/profile/fast...) are uncompelling, unfocused, and inferior to existing devices that do not go on your face, while meta is not accountable for any use cases found by people using the device.
3/x
The device *is* socially hostile but that is a side-effect of the device having no (marketable) purpose.
The only plausible purposes are the empty, greedy, power-hungry, purposes of Mark, and he is *the* designer.
2/x
"design" is interesting here. They have designers working on parts at a time, UX, hardware, software, aesthetics, but these groups are not united by an overarching (marketable) purpose, they are detached from the bigger picture and designing for their domain purposes
1/x
Hartzog said lawmakers need to create more specific rules tailored to the unique threat posed by the combination of facial recognition and nearly undetectable surveillance technology before it becomes ubiquitous. Those laws need to target not only people using the technology, but also the companies behind it, he said. “A lot of these conversations tend to focus on, ‘is it OK to use these glasses or this tool to surveil other people?’” he said. “What often gets lost in this conversation is, ‘is it OK for companies to design these really socially hostile tools in ways that will foreseeably lead to massive violations of privacy?’”
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“‘Even though people often say there’s no such thing as privacy in public, the truth is a lot more complicated,’ said [Woodrow] Hartzog, who works in privacy and technology law.”
In other oversold tech news, I'm reliably informed by someone who sells them that Rayban Meta specs are gathering dust in stock rooms, which I think is quite funny.
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jony ive apparently had time to design the interior for a new ferrari tho
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screenshot of the macos spotlight dialog with "whatsapp" written fully into the search field and the only result is for a firefox web search
screenshot of the macos launchpad interface showing "whats" in the search input and the whatsapp app icon displayed below
on macos sequoia spotlight still just
does
not
work
