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MSC Cruises is banning smart glasses in common areas
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These have no AR features. It’s music playback and stealth photo and video capture. That is all.
Meta now has a new model that includes a display also. It's arguable whether that technically qualifies as AR but people do tend to look at these as part of the category.
So even less capable than Google glass, I see.
But as far as the stealth photo and video capture goes, what do you do about those little camera/mic on pen type little gadgets? The only difference for them is that they are not sending all that to Meta.
That's a pretty significant difference. Plus those devices are more suspicious when pointed at you.
Can't say I agree.
I have seen one of the pens and it's hard to realise it has a camera. Also, it's probably made for the times when people used to normally keep a pen in their breast-pocket.
For me, honestly that's a good enough difference and I would be fine if someone were just keeping a camera on their head while in public. Although my expectations might change in a shared restroom with urinals.
Also, would you want a similar response to someone using AR glasses, not made by (and not selling video data to) any corporation?