Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

I have a phone to hand all day

I'd like to not have a phone in my hand all day.

I already wear glasses, I have a smartwatch. reading shit on the smartwatch is a PITA.

Give me a monocular monochrome screen, directional audio pointed at my ear. I'd be happy.

Give me a high rez screen so I could watch a youtube video on cooking for fixing my car while i'm doing either and I'd be ecstatic.

If we lived in functional democracies most large multinationals would've been split up a long time ago, including Meta.

Instead we live in a grey area of plutocratic corporate dictatorship.

If done right, this would be super useful for the visually impaired and other people with other disabilities. But the tech bros would rather have creepy filming spy glasses instead.

My mom just caught one of her kids using these to cheat on a final. He had them Bluetoothed to his laptop and it disconnected at some point and she heard "the answer to number 7 is...." But she said he barely got a C on it even while cheating. So since she didn't know about the glasses until after that student left and another student told her it was the glasses, she just kinda let it go saying "it's honestly going to be his problem in the future."

Edit: she couldn't pin point the kid at the moment, and wasn't informed who it was until after the kid was gone and the other student told her.

I'd love a pair _without_ cameras that have a HUD, though. Being able to pull up weather, camera, directions, etc. right in my field of view without looking away from what I'm working on would be cool af.

I'm not a teacher, but I dunno if that's the right response to someone cheating. It is going to be his problem in the future, but as a teacher, isn't it her job to teach the kid that that's not OK? Sorta depends on the age, I suppose, but I'd definitely give the kid a 0% instead of a C.

Honestly, if they were open source and only talked to my own servers, or were completely local, I'd love an instant replay feature eg. Your cat does something cute, you can clip it, like in a video game, and save that video. Of course, this would munch through battery, so I don't see it happening any time soon, and I don't really care to have a camera on my face otherwise.

All that said, the hud functionality is definitely what I'm most interested in. There is the worry of basically having your phone on your face all the time, but there are many times when I want to be using my phone, but it'd be more convenient if I didn't have to hold it. Eg. Watching a video podcast while doing chores. Reading books in the glasses while laying in a hammock sounds awesome, if it doesn't cause eye strain.

yeah, i tutored a fair amount of pre-med students who had to take economics as a general education class. dullards to the last one (these were the ones who needed a tutor for introductory economics) and every single one tried to pay me to do their homework. i kept their names and about half are now working in medicine, because "that'll be their problem" turns into "that'll be the patient's problem".

please remind your mother that if y'all keep failing them through, look what happens

something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing

Because God forbid you take the fucking earbuds out of your head when talking to someone.

You might not notice your OIS is borked until you go on vacation and suddenly can't get certain pictures to focus anymore. Excessive vibration and drops can definitely damage it. Though I imagine just a basic rubberized mount would help mitigate that a lot.

As someone with prosopagnosia (face blindness) these types of glasses would be an incredible assistive technology for myself and others like me, but even I'm aware of the significant privacy concerns and don't feel the benefit outweighs the societal risks.

It isn't really an issue of morality imo, it's a teacher's job to give grades that reflect the student's skill level.

I mean, it was a bio 2xxx class so likely a gen ed req. She would've failed him if she knew who it was at the time. She told me she was "seeing red". But like I said, the student was one of the first to finish and leave so it would've been difficult to make a case.

Everything I am seeing says 7 million total _globally_ as of the first quarter of this year. Which is still quite a bit more than I thought they would’ve sold.

She couldn't really have done anything considering she didn't know which kid it was until after they were gone and the other student informed her.