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

Maybe its just me, but nowadays every public apace is incredibly noisey.

Every bar and restaurant is blaring music. Vehicular traffic, air conditions, all sorts of other machines are pumping noise in too.

I just went out with some people this weekend and found myself wishing we had, noise-canceling headsets to be able to talk to each other. Kinda makes me want to not go out any more.

It's been more than a few months. Also I am getting offers for meta glasses if I switch internet or cell carriers and shit, so I suspect some of those numbers are coming from wholesale contracts and not direct to customer purchases.

They use the fact that they have multiple microphones and some audio processing to isolate the voice of the person from the background noise. Taking your earbuds out would make it harder to hear them, not easier.

In noisy areas (like a bar) it can be the difference between being able to understand the person you're with and being deafened by the background noise.

It's all done on your device so it makes zero sense that they would charge a subscription other than as a means of financial extortion to use the hardware that you paid for.

Excuse me, with how shitty parents are, someone has to step up, or we are all screwed.

Let's put aside who's job is what, these kids are going to be building our future too.

Ahh, that makes a bit more sense I suppose. Innocent until proved guilty and whatnot. I feel like I'd still want to bring them in to confront them about it, to let them know that they didn't really get away with it. Also, obviously, I'd be banning smart glasses from tests.

She's visiting for a funeral and I commented something on the commercial for them, and she told me that sorry and about how she has to watch out for them now. Another loose relation is visiting and a teacher as well and I asked them about ai and got two totally different experiences. My mom's class doesn't require a lot of literature as it's a low level bio class, but the loose family is teaching English to troubled youth and sees it absolutely everywhere. She started having them write one paper first day in class to get a feel for their actual writing aptitude.

College was the only time I tried. It was during a lab practical for a higher level immunology. But I looked at another answer of theirs that I knew, and it was not the right answer. So I didn't use the first.

This. Honestly they're amazing on airplanes, since you can still talk and hear all the announcements / flight attendants without the background noise.

I'm a huge nerd, so I'd love a HUD like the B movie Sight Extended, gamifying my life to motivate me to mow the lawn and clean and wear pants. Sadly it seems the corps and gov will just use all this stuff to track and harvest the data from our every word/thought/blink and monetize every bit of it they can. Will likely end up more like the ad dreams from Ready Player One where ads are 90% of your vision, and they will only be used by creepy creepers for creeping.

Lol. Ok.

I’m looking for something that could magnify text, or read text and convert it into, well digital text where I can adjust the size, like say from a menu behind the counter at a fast food restaurant. Or identify the walk / don’t walk sign across the street at a stop light intersection cross walk. Most of this can already be done simply by using the camera app and zoom features on any phone. So the next step is just getting the wearable form factor. And ensuring the HUD is actually readable with proper size, color and contrast. (Here “proper” means properly adjustable to accommodate the wearer’s needs. As that will vary.)

Yeah that and where sounds are coming from

Interesting insight of course. I can't imagine being a teacher right now, having to keep up with these things. You're basically forced to become a techie in some ways, when before, many teachers really had no reason or need to learn tech stuff. I guess they had other cheating methods to keep up with, but man, these cheating tools are just evolving so fast these days.

I don't mind if the people who wear these get ripped off

What, were they too popular before? lol