Seriously, an open source version would be awesome. You could connect it to your own server running whatever local models you want without needing to worry about that audio/video being processed by some large corporation willing to sell you out along with your data.

They certainly are, but they're also a bit dystopic. I don't want random people looking up stats about my online presence, and I certainly don't want the police doing that either.

I can see tons of cool applications, but also tons of ethical issues.

Good thing that the kind of person who would were these in public doesn't interact with others much anyway

And serve ads directly in your eyeballs

I can imagine that haptic/soft vibrations could also be used to steer a blind person towards an object that needs more focus by the camera.

As you say, it has a lot of potential for accessibility and people with handicaps like that, but it's not direction that tech, the economy, or the world itself is interested in right now...

...but this is a basic mistake.

They just fell prey to one of the classic blunders!

There are also plenty of people who wear glasses who don’t need them. It’s weird to act like Plano lenses don’t exist.

The core technology is impressive, and has legitimate use cases.

But that doesn’t outweigh the enormous privacy concerns these devices raise. They aren’t being angled as an accessory for specific activities, but as everyday wearables. If smart glasses like these became common they would be unavoidable, creating leave of intrusion that’s concerning even without Meta being involved.

As a cyclist, this is a terrible sell. I already have tech which does all this, and probably does it better, for less.

I don't need a HUD constantly in my face obscuring the beautiful views. I have sun glasses which fit well with a helmet and wrap around my face to keep the wind out.

I have a cycling computer, which offers GPS turn by turn, and pairs to power meters, heart rate and radar light. It is mounted on the handlebars in an easy to view place.

I have bone conducting headphones for music.

All of this is significantly less than $1000, and if something breaks, I can replace it all individually. I also don't have to wear ridiculous looking sunglasses to listen to my bone conducting headphones.

I agree that head mounted displays can be useful, I'm contemplating getting something like it, but just no cameras, please. not in the frame, not backwards, not anywhere.

And that's also the main reason I don't want these to exist. I don't want to be identified by random people, and I especially don't want police to have access to something like this. People I spend time with know who I am, and I'm fine missing out on random same place/same time coincidences with people I knew from high school or something.

I have this, and I cannot stress enough how much this use case is not worth being recorded and tracked in public against my consent

Yup, can't wait to be tracked without my consent everywhere I go because of other people that want to pay money to become employed for free by private and government companies.

I don't have face blindness, but I can't remember names for the fucking life of me.

That's intentional.

Smart glasses also raise many privacy concerns, as their cameras and microphones may be recording at any given time, which can be unnerving to people. When Google launched their Google Glass smart glasses, this led to the coining of the term ‘glasshole‘ for people who refuse to follow perceived proper smart glasses etiquette.

surely there will have to be "no smart glasses" rules

They have this rule for ebikes at the lake I love to walk and the kids are zooming by anyway. I think we'll struggle to enforce it and that really sucks. I hope this fails. It's hard not to be pessimistic about it, as much as I can see some legitimate use cases. I just don't trust big tech with it, least of all Meta.

high powered infrared leds at full blast? Just spitballing here