Asklemmy

I'll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.

I work a retail job where I'm staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I'm working.

But until there are more of an "open source" type Smart Glasses that aren't supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I'll join the rest of y'all on staying far away from them.

No, and I think they oughta be illegal. I don't want to be recorded.

It'll be a hard no for any smart glasses from Meta or Google.

However, in the very distant and not quite guaranteed future, I would consider smart glasses (again, NOT by Meta/Google/etc) for accessibility.

As someone with auditory processing disorder, it would be a game changer if I had the ability to read live closed captions of what someone is saying, while they are talking to me. That would be my only use case.

I wear glasses as anyways and I'd love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I'd probably need a device to control it somehow too.

However, I wouldn't want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and "updates" I didn't ask for.

I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.

However, I'm pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I'll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.

Fuck no

In concept, they're the kind of sci-fi shit I dreamed of as a kid. The reality is that they'll be locked-down useless trash that you pay out the ass to spy on you.

I wouldn't use anything from Meta, no exceptions.

I would not wear one and would never trust anyone that would.

No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps

Tech isn't fun anymore. Why do I want to act as a spy camera for big corporations

Just in a dream scenario where they are

• Seamless, Not bulky
• GrapheneOS version for it
• Physical kill switch for mic, camera and sensors
• Tor routed, or VPN friendly
• Only open source software
• Environmental and Fair wages commitment
• 100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
• Up to date law for these technologies

I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.

When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.

See y'all in 2077

I'm mildly interested in the technology, but I sure as hell wouldn't go anywhere near Meta-branded anything. For starters, based on the demo, the product fucking sucks, but then there's also the privacy and fascism issues.

Absolutely fucking not. I have literally no interest in being more online. That sounds depressing.

Remember Google Glass?
Same story here. Neat tech but no chance buddy

Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?

I gotta wear glasses anyways so it'd be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.

But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn't interesting.

I wanted a wearable computer with a head-mounted display real bad until the justified backlash against Google Glass ruined it for everyone.

This is a category of device that cannot be allowed to be implemented as a surveillance-capitalist product, only as Open Hardware.

Every idiot wearing this dystopian Stasi shit needs to be punched in the face.

Not from Meta for sure.

And for all the people hating on these there are real world applications that could truly help folks. I’m very ADHD. My brain goes on tangents. I forget mid sentence what I was going to say. I have a terrible time remembering peoples names. These are all things this type of technology could help me with. But they would have to be implemented with the correct privacy guards in place. And I wouldn’t touch anything from Zuck with a 39 ½ foot pole.

If they weren't a dystopian, privacy invading nightmare and had more actual useful features rather than awful AI, and weren't owned and controlled by an evil corporation, then I might be inclined to try them.

i'd buy glasses that would scramble the vision of smart glasses

I saw how impossible it was to actually take the WhatsApp call for Zuckerberg himself.

I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it'd 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company's servers. I've gotten used to my android phone that doesn't have google play services, and I'll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I'd like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I'd be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.

Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won't be getting smart glasses any time soon

Never, and I would be offended if I noticed someone with them looking at me.

Nope. I can wait for the chip implant to broadcast ads in my sleep.

If the data it collects was only on my devices and I can customize the settings to collect what is ant when I want. But that will never happen. It can't be a tool I purchase and use solely for my benefit, the person who owns it. Fuck these tech fascistsnjunkies, I hope they all fucking die of cancer.

I have a strong use case. As a hearing aid and earpods. Regular in ear units never stay put and aren't comfortable. Once I find a set that is affordable and can take my prescription, (and meet the need) I'm in.

Unless it can connect to my own server, no.

From meta? Not a chance unless there's a way to completely free them from any meta related software.

No

I'd love them, but like others have said, not if made by Meta, and not if they rely on sending all my data to cloud services to function.

Literally the only thing I would want “smart” glasses to do is play videos or show messages from select apps. Ditch the shitty camera, don’t ever connect to an “AI” service, and for the love of god, don’t be made to lock into a big tech company..

I don't think I want my face to be any more punchable than it already is

Fuck no. I don't need to record my life to share it with the world. Even if people would be interested in it, why do I need to be sharing so much of my life.

No, even if it were open source, I don't want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.

I would kinda like glasses that could display my heart rate and running pace, so I would not have to look at my watch.

I would buy smart tech in the future but only once capitalism has disintegrated into a new world social order (i.e. the distant future) otherwise the motives of the tech company might be questionable and who knows what secret control crap they might add without your knowledge.

The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.

So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.