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demosthanos | 8 months ago

Somehow we've actually managed to regress from 2013's Google Glass.

Always-on microphone and camera sold by one of the world's sketchiest privacy invaders? Check.

Display that actually takes advantage of the glasses form factor? Nope. Sounds like this could just as easily be the Humane pin.

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awongh|8 months ago

Crazy how much more acceptable this is only 12 years later.

People were so angry in 2013.

toast0|8 months ago

Google glass was a display that was up and to the right of where you want to be looking.

I don't know about everyone, but I found it pretty hard to use. Caveat, I didn't get them fit to me, I was supervising an intern working on a speculative Glass project, and they were fit to him.

AR would be neat, but voice interfaces are acheivable at an approachable cost. I'm not one to talk to a computer, and I wear prescription lenses, so these glasses don't appeal to me, but I can see there's a market there, not sure how big or if Meta can capture it.

demosthanos|8 months ago

Right, I'm not claiming Glass was good, but it at least attempted to use the glasses form factor for something.

georgeecollins|8 months ago

Well it shows you what was the real problem with glass, it looked dorky. I wish people cared about privacy but in general they don't.

kotaKat|8 months ago

It's one of those times you just want to "OK Glass" the person around you that says "Hey, Meta" with their privacy-invading cameras.

Handy-Man|8 months ago

It's not always on. How do you skeptics always manage to get things wrong to get your point across?

demosthanos|8 months ago

If you can ask "Hey Meta, ..." while holding a golf club and unable to touch a button (which the promo video [0] shows you can) then the mic is always on. It may not always be beaming data to Meta, but that's a matter of trust, which I don't have much of for Meta given their history.

The camera may or may not be always on, but it can be turned on by software activated by the always-on mic (again, demonstrated by the promo video), so it would be best to treat it as though it is.

[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/introducing-oakley-meta-gl...

meepmorp|8 months ago

how can it respond to voice prompts if it's not listening?