Yup, I'm sure THESE smart glasses will be the one that everyone suddenly loves. Yeah nah. But it is pretty funny to watch people learn why Google Glass failed again and again.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would want smart glasses for a very, very limited sunset of things. Watching a movie on a train. Real world walking and bicycling navigation. Receiving messages in a meeting so I don't have to check my phone. None of the glasses have done any of these well.

So they want us to buy glasses that don't have any of these things well but also have an ai assistant because reasons. Pass.

[–] themoken@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Seriously. I want a personal HUD for navigation and reminders that also corrects my vision (like normal glasses), not to become a walking surveillance device / info mine.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago

but where's the profit if you aren't constantly recording data for them 24/7? What, you expect them to just make a product that functions well at what it was advertised to do?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

not to become a walking surveillance device / info mine.

This is really where everyone should nope the fuck out. Sadly, it probably won't pan out like that.

Gibson was so incredibly close to prescient on this one. With this kind of tech, we'll have actual "gargoyles", but all the data makes a pit-stop at a corpo database where it can be mined for value, before it ships off to the CIA:

Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; there getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculater pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.

https://cyberartsweb.org/cpace/cyborg/kawstretch.html

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

I just want to be like Cookie from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

No you see it's so you can watch porn while ordering a burger or talking to your grandma