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Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women (www.sydney.edu.au)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332159/researchers-show-how-meta-s-pervert-glasses-are-used-to-harass-women

Pre-print research paper.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.

It is deserved and not surprising, and I'm not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.

But, that requires a camera. It's a shame, and I'll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.

I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the whole wet dream of the companies pouring money into this tech is to be able to put ads in your face all day long.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I was going to say, we barely have open-source cellphone OSes right now, and the most functional ones exist only because a surveillance company gave away their early code in a successful bid for market dominance. Something similar would probably play out for pervert glasses.

[–] dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

Well, the Steam Frame might help us a bit with that.

[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 4 points 21 hours ago

I had dreams of video game-style navigation with translations and overlays on the world. Instead, I have to keep an eye out for these things anytime I go into a public restroom.