where are glasses that show a display to you? navigation, etc. no camera. just a hud with details and things you’d see on your phone.
Those aren’t cameraless
These are HUD only, no camera
https://www.evenrealities.com/
But you do lose all the fancy AR stuff without cameras or comparable tracking options, so no high precision navigation, etc. Very limited gesture support with only ToF style sensors for detection, and similarly no stable virtual screen anchoring (necessary to prevent motion sickness for most) without SLAM type tracking
i’d love these with an overview/overlay that works as a firefighter may need - well an officer outside. chief, safety, etc - an overlay of a building or where your crews are… hrm. app idea!
I think after the failure of google glass, no corpos dared try again
The problem with Google glass was the work factor and the camera
Yeah fair, I didn’t bother to look up its features relied on memory, and didn’t remember it had a camera.
You guys still have KMarts?!
Unfortunately, yes. They also bought target and made them have a shit store layout aswell.
Holy shit. They’ve actually done well enough to buy out Target. You guys are fucking wild down there.
Kmart didn’t buy out Target. Both Kmart and Target are owned by Westfarmers, one of the largest Australian business conglomerates. The above comment was probably referring to a restructuring within Westfarmers around 10 years ago which combined the two into a single division called “Kmart Group”.
To be clear, there is also no connection between the Australian companies and their US namesakes. They are completely separate companies and have never shared the same owners.
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long long time
Kmart Australia is notoriously a very different beast from the dystopian wasteland the US ones are
So people are upset about this, but have no trouble with the government tracking where they are and what they are doing 24x7x365.
If you are in public, you have no right to privacy and are free to be recorded. CCTVs, phones, glasses, whatever.
That has been the law for hundreds of years.
Why the beatup and ‘outrage’ against these glasses of all things? How many times a day does someone have their mobile phone pointed at you, and you have no idea if they are taking photos or videos?
Why the beatup and ‘outrage’ against these glasses of all things?
Presumably for the same reason people have disliked other secret/hidden cameras in the past.
How many times a day does someone have their mobile phone pointed at you, and you have no idea if they are taking photos or videos?
Exactly. They have it pointed at you. In other words, you are able to recognise that there is a camera there and that they may be filming. If someone walks into a public toilet or past a kindergarten wearing glasses, how would you know if they were recording? These glasses are designed to look like pretty standard consumer glasses and are difficult to recognise as smart devices from a distance. It also creates a problem where literally anyone wearing glasses in an area or situation where recording could be problematic becomes a suspect, even if they’re just wearing normal glasses and have done nothing wrong.
Ok, point taken, but there’s a difference between in public and public toilet. Alan Jones excepted lol.
Oh, you just mentioned something I hadn’t considered. Is it the normal glass wearers that are worried they might be tagged as pervs or sickos?
(I mean no disrespect to glass wearers - I use them myself)
Ok, point taken, but there’s a difference between in public and public toilet.
Legally perhaps, but not in terms of wearing these glasses. As I said, they are designed to look like regular glasses (not just sunglasses), so they don’t look out of place in private and intimate spaces in the same way a smartphone can.
Search for ‘spy pen’, ‘spy keyfob’, ‘spy clock’, ‘spy camera’
“But glasses are different!” is being obtuse.
All these devices have been available for YEARS
I get your initial frustration regarding people’s general lax attitudes towards privacy and civil liberties, but pretending you can’t see any difference here is very silly. Glasses are normal in all situations of life; we have them with us and on us at all times. No one walks around holding pens, key fobs, clocks or any other kind of weird gotcha object you once saw in a James Bond film, outside of very specific situations where those items make sense. In addition, smart glasses are a mainstream tech item being designed, developed and pushed to market by big tech companies - they are far more capable and easy to use than your novelty spy items from Aliexpress.
Who can say what governments will do however when individuals are recording your activities, think pervert or criminal.
Who can say what governments will do however when individuals are recording your activities, think pervert or criminal.
So, governments recording and doing whatever is OK, but individuals are automatically pervert or criminal?
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It’s more noticeable and visceral which is why people are up in arms about it. And rather than downplaying it why not use this as an opportunity to advocate for stringent privacy laws. Because I think you’ll find most people do care about the excessive surveillance, they are just not aware of it.
Good points.
Just because it doesn’t solve something worse, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take a step forward.
I’m still smelling something stinky about this, like maybe it’s pushed by Meta or Google (did they axe glasses?), but either way your points still stand. Conspiracy confirmed lol
Because all those other cctvs and stuff are owned by companies that don’t want to get sued for posting people’s images non-consensually online. Doesn’t matter if it’s legal to be recorded in public or not. If someone can say a company caused harm because of said imagery, it’s going to be expensive.
Individual people have no problem at all posting these videos and commenting on people they capture, and people viewing that clip will do so as well.
As for the rest; out of sight, out of mind. But even then some take measures to avoid being tracked.
Thank our lucky stars that corporations, governments and companies never do anything wrong and protect our privacy so well.
