Please do leave me behind!
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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just found out these glasses are not even Augmented Reality. They have neither screens nor projectors. Just cameras, a mic, and bone conduction earphones. The interface is voice control. They are literally only for taking creepshots. So Zuckerberg is staying on-brand.
They're allegedly useful for visually impaired users, but I strongly doubt Zuckerberg's thought of that particular untapped market, or interested in taking advantage of it.
I've already predicted Meta Rayban wearers would be assaulted in the street, but I wouldn't be shocked if visually impaired peeps kept away from them as well - whatever accessibility boons they may grant, it is not worth getting called a creepshotter and/or your ass getting beaten.
(Sidenote: This is the second time I've seen a tech accessibility related shitshow so far - the first was some alt-text drama I ran into three days ago.)
I’m sure you can think of hypothetical use cases for Google Glass and Meta AI RayBans. But these alleged non-creepshot use cases already failed to keep Google Glass alive. I predict they won’t be enough to keep Meta AI RayBans alive.
Its not an intentional use case, but its an easy way to identify people who I should keep far, far away from.
It turns out normal people really do not like this stuff, and I doubt the public image of tech bros has improved between 2014 and 2025. So have fun out there with your public pariah glasses. If you just get strong words, count yourself lucky.
On a wider note, I wouldn't be shocked if we heard of Rapist RayBan wearers getting beaten up or shot in the street - if the torching of Waymos in anti-ICE protests, the widespread vandalism of Cybertrucks, and Luigi Mangione's status as a folk hero are anything to go by, I'd say the conditions are right for cases of outright violence against anyone viewed as supporting the techbros.
EDIT: Un-fucked the finishing sentence, and added a nod to Cybertrucks getting fucked up.
LOL, how could you leave out vandalized Cybertrucks! :)
He's going full circle. Now he can upload spy pics of chicks for rating on his new site fA.I.cebook
About as creepy as the classic hentai glasses (quite NSFW, obviously, but not full on porno) and not even half as entertaining even if you can stand the creepiness.
With Google Glass you can Ogle Ass… is this anything?
I’m pretty sure wearable internet access is a future thing, with some gui only the person can see.
But glasses are not it
I know, def needs to be a monocle!
Good HMDs are awesome. What FB has shown off is not. Low-res with spy hardware built in and non-optional is terrible. The EMR (maybe wrong initials) wristbands would be an excellent input interface. But, they seem more interested in more invasive data collection than solving real problems.
Oh like a mobile phone?
better phones
cognitive forehead strap-on
ahahahaha, thank you that's perfect
left behind
Ah great. So if I don't get the glasses, I don't get raptured and am left behind. If I do get the glasses, I get raptured, everything I'm wearing is left behind, specifically the glasses. So this is a no-win scenario.
This is all about the surveillance state isn't it?
I’m sure you can think of hypothetical use cases for Google Glass and Meta AI RayBans.
I ... can't actually. What do these things actually do that a phone can't?
So I was thinking about this recently with a colleague and there are two things that I think would be useful:
- I would actually like a HUD? Like a minimap when walking through the city. Or the ability to popup a small YT video in the corner of my eye. I have no idea if it would actually work with how human vision works, but that's a cool idea for me.
- Universally good idea: smart glasses that detect advertising billboards and other shit like that and automatically replace them with something. Could be just with white space, or with pleasant landscapes, or giant dicks if you're into that. The possibilities are quite endless. Would be universally beloved by everyone.
Only things that a hidden camera can do.
Augmented reality for the Google Glass. Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don't even have screens or projectors!
Not, it turns out, for the Meta Raybans, cos they don’t even have screens or projectors!
Wait what? So what are those glasses? I thought they were AR glasses? What do they do then.
AR could be great. Though if google glass became widespread, and because google doesn’t know how to do anything else, it would 100% be used for ad space
What if we did They Live, but in reverse?
Protect your eyes I guess