You're a silly person, aren't ya.

Yeah fuck me for acknowledging AR glasses or other AR tech could be very useful but it's being limited by our privacy concerns that are basically theater at this point.

Truly I am so cowardly Mr big internet man.

Windows Recall has re-entered the chat.

would these help lead to more arrest if assaults were captured on the cameras

It might also help find lost puppies, but that's not a good enough reason to give up any additional amounts of privacy to the megacorporations or to a police state.

Years of privacy violations going deeper and deeper under pretend of "progress" and "pRoTeCt the cHiLdReN".

https://imgur.com/QqabC7T

Prolly use a Flipper Zero

Couldn't people who specifically want to stealthily record people just turn off the bluetooth?

I mean, eventually there are going to be people with camera's stealthily integrated directly into their eyeballs recording non-stop.

Like that black mirror episode letting people relive any moment from their past.

While I agree that AR glasses will become widespread, there's still time to advocate for and implement privacy focused regulations. Especially early on as people are upset about the technology

While not perfect solutions, enforcing stuff such as recording LEDs and such are steps in the right direction

Yes. You should have to censor yourself for neighbors and peers to have a functioning society. You should not have to do it for corporations. The line is pretty cut and dry and we should fight to keep it.

If that's all you want, making something that just clips onto your existing glasses might be pretty viable.

Not incoherent at all and I appreciate you taking the time to interrupt your beauty sleep to respond. ;)

This technology space has a lot of promise but knowing when it is really ready for prime time is difficult to discern with all the hype. Sounds like it is close, or fully useable depending on use case.

You hit all the key points so no follow up questions. Thanks!

I believe Bluetooth is always on with the Meta glasses, at least the last gen. They offload everything to the phone. I got a pair as a work gift and only use them as sunglasses with headphones built-in so I can listen to podcasts on walks.

Again though, its not a get out of jail free card. There needs to be a clear threat to life and limb. Just being punched is not an invitation to shoot somebody. Stop spreading false and dangerous information.

With your comments I found additional German legal guidance that mostly matches what you said. It appears that Germany does indeed have a portion of privacy from someone intentionally walking up to you and taking your picture. I don't think this invalidates my original point because it doesn't appear that expectation of privacy extends to installed surveillance cameras in public.

However, I appreciate having a better understanding of German law. Thank you.

Everyone around you has a phone with a camera. Businesses and the government have additional cameras looking all over. The phone camera being less obvious and handsfree seems like an arbitrary choice of where to draw the line

Github (APK) link, if you're on a privacy phone: https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

The wireless communication protocol will still be able to be intercepted. A physical port for data transfer will probably be too dangerous to the subject and prone to contamination (and infection).

And I think it just means anyone deciding to commit assault just also steals/ destroys the victims phone and glasses as a default

Next step is for someone makes a version that hijacks the Bluetooth headphones and makes them play a loud shrill noise that makes the glasses too uncomfortable to wear in your pressence.

But not necessarily interpreted.

I’ll still use it for the meta garbage, but I think the reason is that the glasses are just inconspicuous enough for most normies to not notice they are being recorded. Till the moron wearing them starts staring off into space while reading tweets at least.

If I understand your response correctly, you're arguing that the glasses themselves aren't the issue, it's the shifts that come with accepting the glasses.

They may ironically have the reverse effect. I guarantee that corporations are already cataloging your facial expressions. Between Ring, Flock, Apple, Google, Netflix, Samsung, etc. there are many pictures of all our faces with rich annotation. Currently most people don't even think about how thoroughly they're being watched. These douchy glasses may actually draw attention to the matter.

They can produce better video than some cameras but not as good as others. 12MP ultrawide is pretty standard on security cameras and they're already all over the place.

Do you think that the current smart glasses are making surveillance more normalized or do you think that they're getting more common because we've already normalized constant surveillance?

I'd point out that the PATRIOT act passed a quarter century ago with only one "No" and one abstention.

As does Ring, Flock, Samsung, Apple, Google and so on.
Some random person with any other hidden camera can easily upload them to creepy servers and do automatic face recognition on them too.

Steve Mann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann_(inventor) has been doing that for a long time.

'people like you' don't give consumers enough credit. They aren't ignorant to the privacy concerns. That's nonsense. They just don't care about them. People buying these glasses take it a step further though by disrespecting the privacy of others. For that, I will ostracize them and their apologists.
Also what so "cool" exactly to you about strapping an ip camera to your face?

I'm not going to argue with you anymore. Let's agree to disagree 👍

I mean, that was sorta the point of the comment...

I don't like them and therefore, I won't be using them, ever. I'd get a less obstructing headset instead. And, I wouldn't get a headset just to play around with it, I'd actually want to use it and try to get to it help me doing things.

Regarding security cameras, you can't point your private security camera off your property. If you put it above your entrance, you can't point it to record the entire street.

Afaik anyway.

Parking spaces or business must visibly disclose that there's cameras, at least where they would not be generally expected. I'm not too sure about the specifics there though.

Spy glasses are much less obvious than using a phone camera.

My partner got a pair for work when they first came out (her job involves creating social media content). I was impressed by the speakers and it’s the same style of sunglasses that I normally wear daily, so I got a pair for myself. It was so nice to be able to listen to stuff and take calls without carry around headphones or putting them in when the phone rang. I was already uncomfortable with the association with meta, but was able to isolate that aspect at first. As they continued to add features, I’ve started being less comfortable with them. I accidentally left them somewhere a couple months ago and decided not to replace them. It’s such a bummer that all the cool tech is now not just spying on you, but on everyone around you. Fuckin capitalism ruins everything.

needs a disrupter to ignite it's batteries. js. what good is detection w/o counter measures

Technically one of us is supposed to call the other a cunt at this point, but will accept your breach of protocol.

Back to the 1960s....these were marketed to look at kids and girls.

Still dorky.

you must be in the US, where everyone wears these

ok, but they don't try and hide them do they?

It's only a matter of time before someone is arrested on suspicion of voyerism and there is evidence of him staring at some girl's boobs.

Every guy does this, but "Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away!"

-Jerry Seinfeld.

AR glasses will become widespread

I was picking up my new prescription glasses this week at a large mall. They had Ray Ban and Oakley Meta glasses and the clerk said they have not sold a single pair.

I know one engineer who bought the Meta glasses due to the form factor. For others with the Go Pro, they usually mount the cameras on their hard hat, which makes it easy to see since black hard hats are rare.

are you filming this? 👊