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Meta glasses without camera
So just normal glasses?
I would also expect them to try leaving a mic in there too so they can continue being perverts, just less obviously.
Edit: yep, sick fucks:
The camera-free glasses, code-named Luna, will still feature an array of six microphones to allow users to speak to the company’s AI chatbot and its recently-released AI assistant, called Muse. They’ll presumably pick up audio from users’ environments as well, where bystanders may not be aware of the eavesdropping.
Bahahahaha classic
Glasses with a screen. I wonder if google glass had a camera on those.
It won't be enough to just remove the cameras and quietly sell them. They're gonna need to somehow make it very clear there is no camera. Through both an ad campaign and by the styling of the glasses. If they don't, no one will trust them, or the people wearing them. But, I suspect they'll try, because it's shameful to publicly admit fucking up so badly. And, billionaires aren't good at accepting shame.
There was a dude 3D printing brightly coloured clip ons to cover the camera. Not a bad idea.
Still not touching that shit until someone comes out with one with zero cloud connectivity
Maybe it's still too early and my coffee hasn't fully kicked in, but what could be done with these without cloud connectivity? I assume the hardware is severely limited due to power requirements and size limitations.
My phone is wicked smaht as they say. It can easily run detection algorithms fully locally. It already knows peoples faces I’ve tagged in my photos, where I am, what’s my agenda etc.
All the glasses need to do is interface with the phone for all tasks they can’t manage internally.
A smartwatch, but as glasses if you will.
Also if I do want any internet/cloud access, I trust my phone to do that in a way I prefer instead of just giving everything to Zuck’s ad machine.
I could imagine some uses for non-connected smart glasses. Mechanics who may want to refer to schematics as they work with both hands, without having to disengage and paw through paper or look it up on a laptop? Ppl with various disabilities, run a cheap algorithm to give acoustic cues to blind people?
Prob is, there's no visual way to know if the devices are cloud connected and spying for FB, or not. And even if not, if they're storing pics locally that will later get sent to a big tech co.
I miss the pre-IOT days TBH.
If someone is wearing glasses made by Meta and aren't being held at gunpoint for it, I don't trust them camera or no camera
I got a pair of Shokz bluetooth bone conduction headphones that I tend to jam next to my prescription glasses and it'd be cool to have that integrated, I imagine this is not going to be even close to that though, just the same perv shit without a camera.
I had two pairs of bose frames when tgey came out and they are (theoretically) fantastic. They sound really good, and you don't have anything in your ears. Shokz are nice, but i hate when they were lound enough that you could feel them vibrate. Anyway, bose frames, too expensive, because both of them broke the same way, tgey are just too fiddly, and the little contact in the hinges broke i think. And no one ever made knockoffs and even bose gave up
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2026
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