Would love to know when the iOS app is coming out.

Are you really comfortable with Meta having videos of your children?

Nah, I block access. It's all local.

Have both your hands while recording is different.

Bruh

People were already looking at you funny.

Pretty hard. Unfortunately my aim is shit.

That license looks like Creative Commons Non-Comercial, which is not an open source license.

Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.

Hmm... I wonder if there's any solid way to detect a camera lens being in active focus or use. This app works by parsing Bluetooth traffic, but a person locally recording on their phone wouldn't have such a trail. Is there any reliable way to detect a camera lens reading exposed light?

Now if they can just notify you that some asshole is recording you on their cell phone instead of reading reddit.

If you're out in public, always assume you're on someone's camera. That isn't really new either.

why did mods remove this

how is mentioning that cars are dangerous a "call for violence"

I know, and yet the code is open source. Confusing.

Nothing personal, but those glasses are going to come off your face and straight onto the asphalt when I get the notification.

Don't buy meta shit.

Green light!

I'd fork this just to name it more appropriately: "Glasshole radar"

Wasnt there a ton of outrage and such incl people not being allowed on planes, back when google glass was released?

Why is it all OK now?

Presumably the sensor's data lines would be detectable, but probably more like laboratory conditions.

Perhaps a physical shutter would be a good happy medium. Put 'em on the damn cell phones, too.

No, the code is available, which is not the same as open source.

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Shoot, I should 3d print one for mine. I don't use my camera for much anyway, and better protection from impacts would be nice.

This is an unpopular opinion, but using licenses to actively prevent commercial exploitation of voluntary communal labor is not a bad thing. I would even argue that allowing commercial exploitation of free, communally-maintained software is downright unethical. I don’t tolerate this pejorative “it’s not open source unless the rich and powerful can exploit it” bullshit.

That's called "source available". FUTO basically did the same thing with their stuff after the community rightfully got angry over their use of "open source" in their docs.

True, but I have no issue preventing commercial use. I view that as just as good if not better than traditional open source.

You know what sucks?

In that AR glasses, in theory, are such an interesting technology with lots of potential, and certainly a piece of tech I would love to have and work with and on. Not to secretly record people, but to, well.. augment my field of view with whatever digital tools or displays I would like. It would be so useful

It's honestly kinda saddening to me that it most likely will get completely ruined by our current toxic relationship to technology. A step towards our ever increasing cyberdystopia, and not towards enchanting our limited lives

Obviously either way I don't trust Meta, but an open-hardware device running a FOSS AR system? It would be nice..

I still hold out hope that this somehow could be resolved, and I would love to contribute to open software for these devices. Maybe one day soon-ish I will. My expertise should be well applicable, after all

Many years of indoctrination. When Google glass was introduced, it was just 'a neat idea'. Now it's a product, and therefore it's clearly more trustworthy because someone is profiting from it. (/s)

Yeah I noticed it in the favicon too. Bad aftertaste.

They do call it "open source" in the docs though.

That'd be a great TV show plot...but I'm not really a fan of violence. I'd be more interested in rendering them unusable, or spoofing them into making loud fart noises or letting out a loud wolf whistle everytime someone else walks by. Like I said, I don't know, nor do I much care, what kinds of things the glasses do...but I imagine theres some kind of screen the user can watch, so maybe forcing them to view something annoying could be another viable spoof.

XKCD-it. Got it.

I agree, it would be nice.

Drop the cameras and microphones and replace them with a couple accelerometers and gyros. Paired with your phone's GPS tracking, the glasses can tell where you're looking without actually seeing anything. You can get handy features like a floating 'turn here' sign over your exit while driving with GPS navigation without recording anyone or anything at any time. Better battery life, too.

Except that one cool thing with AR is being able to have it tell what you're looking at is. Not just positioning things in space. A lot of cool shit that could be done with AR, like real time text translation, object identification, etc needs some kind of camera, even if it just sees IR light. Lotta cool shit needs a microphone, too.

Tbh I don't even mind cameras that much if they were entirely controlled by the individuals themselves. I have a much bigger issue with it when you're streaming my facial recognition data to Evil Megacorp 2™ servers that also feed directly to the "Not Spying.. Again" agency, though.

This edit as a response is just unreasonably funny. Hands free and everything, perfection.

Ha, look at this dood over here trusting Meta does not get the data on their devices though workarounds.

It would be incredibly useful in construction. Having a digital overlay telling you exactly where to put up the framing for a separating wall, or an overlay showing the correct distance between screws, or where wires and pipes are inside a wall? There are so incredibly many awesome possible uses for AR in construction.

I remember Google Glass itself receiving a ton of outrage actually: People hated it and anyone wearing one was made fun of ("glassholes" was a popular insult at the time).

I don't think that would work particularly well with AR: People get sick if movement isn't synced up properly, not having any sort of cameras or sensors at all would exacerbate that problem.

If you are talking about a simple HUD, then that might be a lot more viable, but for AR and the tech we currently have, some sort of camera or sensor array is kind of a requirement practically speaking.

I always wanted to build an AR app for inside data centers. Imagine looking at a server and being able to open a terminal or desktop that you can immediately interact with on the floor. or have it display resource information like hardware utilization, temps, network throughput and configuration, etc.

it would make a difficult job just bit more manageable.

Lemmy mods

I really like the special tagged tape that could bring up AR tags and details about it. Organization and directions are so more useful.

Same reason our governments suck ass. Something unpopular tries to get passed again, and again, and again, and again, and eventually people get desensitized and worn out from trying to fight against it. That or it hits on the right time when people are distracted by something else bigger or more important.

Magical workarounds?

No need for magic, if samsung and sony can do it with tvs and fridges why would Meta (a company built almost entirely on and from user data) not use the same sort of tactics, maybe not the raw data but meta data I am sure.

It would be so cool to have something like this integrated into your monitoring platform. Imagine being able to "tap" on a switch in a rack and be able to view it's mac table or port assignments

This is not a remotely unpopular opinion, sharing is awesome and corpos can suck it