The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
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Bullying works, now scale it up for rich people above consequences
I've worn split wireframe glasses since I was in middle school. I've never worn thick plastic rimmed glasses. For most of my life, I didn't know this is why, but it is now.
Works out for you and no shade I'm happy for you :)
I've worn wires, but I'm a rough guy. They don't hold up for me. I will stress for ME.
I also like the look of heavy frames, military they called them "BC's". Call me old, er old school but its my jam.
Birth Control Glasses. Spectacles so ugly you can't get laid wearing them. +2 perception, -11 charisma.
I've got a scar across the bridge of my nose because of my wireframes. I was working as both an instructor and company mechanic at a small flight school, I needed to take some precision measurement of something on the engine, so I went to the toolbox, got a pair of calipers, and I was setting them up as I was walking to the plane, I ran slam into the trailing edge of the wing at eye level. Knocked my ass to the floor, and as I got up I realized I had blood running down my nose, because the wing had pushed my glasses into my face so hard the wire frame cut me.
Do you know what a static wick is? See, airplanes are prone to gathering static electricity, which will build up around the airplane and cause Saint Elmo's Fire. Which wasn't a problem back in the days of tall ships, it is a problem in the days of modern avionics. So airplanes will often have these antenna or frayed wire-like structures attached to their trailing edges to bleed off static electricity. And judging by the scratch I left on that wing flap, my eye socket missed one by about 5 inches.
Jesus, glad you didn't lose an eye! That it, I'm sticking w/ my BC's!
And funny you bring up static wicks, I worked an antenna farm years ago w/ a TV tower. We had salt wells and static wicks all over the place!
Nice to see no one learned anything from Google Glass. This is why we're fucked as a species.
I got the first invites and I soul searched and bowed out, I offered my code to a few close friends and they saw what I was talking about and moved on.
Its late and I'm full on run on sentences.
Good.
I thought it was a good idea to record every interaction with the police without them knowing that you did so. Are we now saying that wearing a hidden camera in public is bad?
The US police doesn't even care if people are overtly filming them killing people without cause, they still get away with it.
How would a "hidden" camera change this?
Also, it is fairly easy to see the camera lenses on smart glasses, they could easily find a way to knock the glasses off your face and step on them to look like a plausible accident.
You take them to court, the police department pays, best case, the police is transferred to another district.
It is far better to have a dashcam with a fisheye lens in your car, it is easily overlooked and and has a large FOV, while also picking up sound.
I see your point and agree but this part is not that clear cut.
Cameras help, they just aren't 100% effective against all cops, and against all types of abuse.
But the guy you're replying to did miss the whole...whole-whole. He crazy.
Go fuck yourself.
Send nudes first
Sorry, I only date physically attractive and emotionally stable individuals.
Tbh you got me I don't really fit either of those
Not true. They hate it.
The individual police officer might, but filming them is for your protection from a wrongful conviction and to secure damages should they break the law during the arrest.
This sounds far more contrived than knocking a phone out of your hand.
A few hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money to most people. Maybe not to you though.
Sure, but when you are a pedestrian, this isn't an option.
Are you just upset you can't use it to secretly record women?
I don't use them, but if I lived in a country where the police habitually abuse innocent citizens and get away with it, I would carry a camera on my person 24/7.
Baseless insinuation in an ineffective attempt to smear, not withstanding.
It's the in between those incidents that are the issue.
So we strip those in need of an effective tool because some abuse it?
If its hooked up to meta, yes. Everyone isn't the police.
And how do you know when you are going to get harassed by the police?
Are you white? Are you rich? If the answer to either of those is "no", that's how you know.
So white poor people should invest in these kind of glasses is what you are saying? Cool.
I have it and 99.9% of the time I'm just listening to music. I only record video or take a photo of things I would have normally taken with a phone like candid photos of my kids out something interesting I want to research later.
Some of us use the glasses as intended.
Don't make some it seem like all of us are creepy. The mass majority are not.
Your ignorance of the root problem does you no favours.
The world at large does not want to be part of Meta's privacy invading dataset. By wearing them and pointing that camera around, you are forcing that on everyone around you. Meta are using that camera and sucking up data at all times.
This is before we even get to the problems you allude to being accused of.
"I would have normally taken with a phone" so you recognise there is something not very normal about glasses with cameras correct? Consoomers will consoom anything they're told to.
The problem is you don't decide when your camera is running, Meta does. Even if you're not doing the creepy shit that other people are doing, it's still somewhat invasive to everyone you look at.
IDGAF, they're creepy because fucking Meta makes them and they have cameras that I garuntee they're scanning 24/7, whether you think so or not. You're a nerd for buying them and you make people uncomfortable just by having them on.
Thank fucking god.
Wearing those should allow anybody to punch your face without law-based repercussions
Can we just recycle “glasshole”?
Why not both?
Meta. The largest portal for all your stalking needs.
As they should be, fucking perverts
(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.)
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.
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.
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.
Tbh, I don't see how this is significantly better than a smartphone or smartwatch, besides the gimmick factor of having a HUD
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
A notification on a smartwatch with sound could easily do this tbh
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.
How would AR ever work without a camera? One implies the other?
Ever seen a jet fighters HUD?
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.
At least two major events that happen in my city have announced a full ban on the pervert glasses
Oh no how unfortunate.
Good. Cuz if I see you recording and I ask you to stop, you get one warning... I won't hesitate to punch you in the face and break those obnoxious glasses on your face if you argue. Hey maybe you'll go viral 😅
And then everyone on the bus claps
And then you go to jail(in most countries).
Most likely a ticket and court appearance.
I'm telling you, Zuck aka Zuck the Cuck is obsessed with watching people. First, Meta buys Oculus in a really odd/weird move for the company, as AR/VR grows slightly popular, mostly niche. The partnership with Rayban shows they're really more so just for data gathering, eavesdropping, spying, invasion of privacy, getting there juicy gossip that isn't posted to social media, intimate moments between 2 people (which could include underage users too), and other likely more sinister purposes I haven't thought of.
Meta is the least likely company to give a shit about any one individual as a person, and it's all about "engagement" and obsession of use of their platform. If someone records me, in a state that's a 2-party consent state for audio/video recording, and they do not comply, I would be swift to take action. Meta doesn't care about laws or policy, they'll push any blame to the users for needing to check with local laws, etc, and find any other scapegoat possible like always. "It's never their fault" duh.
Two party consent states also prohibit civilians from recording police though right? How is that a good thing?
You can record video, but you need consent for audio, or it needs to be posted somewhere for petiole to be aware. Most dash cams or security cameras can omit audio for this reason.
So then this kind of activity is perfectly legal? People in public can expect to be recorded by pervs using any kind of camera?
Basically. If you're not recorded by a perv, you're recorded by dozens of businesses as you drive by or walk by. Where I work, I personally installed our 100+ camera systems.
So why are people being so butt-hurt about this specific device? Is it all because it is connected to Meta?
I was living in NYC when Google Glass first premiered. Within three or four days, almost every restaurant, every shop, and certainly every bar and club had a sign that said “Google glass forbidden! Anyone wearing Google glass will be banned for life!“
I didn’t see many people wearing them, but when I did, it wouldn’t be long before I saw some random person just punch the fuck out of that person, or grab the headset off of the person’s face and just stomp it, and then just start screaming at the person who was wearing them until they ran away, while everyone nearby cheered them on.
And every time, I felt that they deserved that— because they did.
With all of these secret spyware sunglasses that Meta is pushing out today? I fully expected people being beat to death with baseball bats, or being shot in the face with guns. I’m actually quite glad that people are learning their lessons now before they are just being fucking murdered in the streets. But if that’s what it takes for people to stop wearing these sunglasses, not spy on people in record them without their permission, then so be it.
Listen up, you entitled assholes. You wear these stupid spyglasses in public, and you deserve every shred of bodily harm and violence that you get coming to you. And if it takes every single person who puts them on their face being torn apart in the streets and dying horrific death until a long gets past banning them forever, then please please please make that happen. People need to learn that their personal entitlement will cost them their lives if it steps hard enough on others that the others fight back. And we others? We need to learn how to fight back hard enough to make them stop.
I'll take "things that never happened" for 300, Alex.
Why? I’ve seen someone with smart glasses get punched in the face about it, and I don’t even live in fancy New York.
Lol, things happen to people. Get over it.
Sure thing bud.
Tell me you've never lived in New York without telling me you've never lived in New York.
I live in Europe.
lol whatever, kid
That explains why you expect an award just because you aged.
And why you refer to anyone who calls you on your shit a “boomer“
Yawn.
lol grow up
Things like this make me miss living in New York.
Greatest place on earth
Now do cell phones.
Honestly the hot mic you carry in your pocket that can be used as a wire to record every conversation is more invasive
That's kind of a different matter, those stupid glasses aren't as widespread as phones, while we can prevent glassholes becoming the norm, we can't prevent people from using their phones, it's more effective to ask politicians to make regulations or bring companies in court than smash every phone
You must think of the most effective strategy not the most obvious or the one that seems the fastest
Pretty funny that the big privacy promoters downvote these comments all the time.
It's perfectly okay to spy on them, apparently, as long as you do it in a way they don't deem "unfashionable".
Huh.