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The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] 16 points 2 months ago* (13 children)

(Although TBH, I would really love to have a wearable computer that was fully open source and local. Unfortunately, big tech going full Orwell has ruined the idea permanently.)

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Oh I would love a computer on my face to that isn't part of some BS like meta. How fun would it be to look at an object and ask "what is it" and it can find the answer. On a sidebar giving you real time health updates like heart rate, O2 levels, ect. Oh theres a storm rolling in, good to know I'll roll my cars windows up.

    Or my fav, your approaching a flock camera, here is an alternate route.

    Plus news/rss/emails all in a AR setting.

    But we all know this is probably never going to happen because these scumbags want to monetize/teach their failing AI to make a buck.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Honestly this is one of the biggest bummers for me. I love new tech that comes out, but every time I see something my first thought isn't "oh boy I wonder how I can use this" it's "ah great I wonder how that's gonna gather data on me"

    It sucks, the "user data" market has taken all the whimsy out of tech for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I had high hopes for Google Glass because of the previous work of the GA Tech professor who led it, until it came out. That thing was a regression in both privacy and functionality compared to his self-built wearable computers from the '90s or 2000s.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

    Oh I would love a computer on my face to that isn't part of some BS like meta. How fun would it be to look at an object and ask "what is it" and it can find the answer. On a sidebar giving you real time health updates like heart rate, O2 levels, ect. Oh theres a storm rolling in, good to know I'll roll my cars windows up.

    Tbh, I don't see how this is significantly better than a smartphone or smartwatch, besides the gimmick factor of having a HUD

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (4 children)

    That's only for the gimmick factor of having an HUD, but now that i think about it, it could be useful for people with some problems that need constant monitoring or smth, like they get a pop up "the sugar in your blood is too low, remember to eat a candy" or smth

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    like they get a pop up "the sugar in your blood is too low, remember to eat a candy" or smth

    A notification on a smartwatch with sound could easily do this tbh

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah but they aren't very good usually, they also don't allow you to use an analogic watch which is way better for some people, even just for the aesthetic, and you can easly not notice it and the sound is not viable in some scenarios

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    I think I would rather have AR glasses then glasses w/ a camera.

    Yeah more I think about it the more I can get behind that.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How would AR ever work without a camera? One implies the other?

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ever seen a jet fighters HUD?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    A HUD and AR are something different tho.

    A HUD is just a display you can look at while keeping your focus on something else. My car has that, it has no relation to the outside world, it's just a display.

    With AR the information presented is placed within the world around you. Using a camera and motion tracking, it can place stuff in relation to real stuff around you. Think Pokemon-Go.

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