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[–] [email protected] 131 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology.

This has nothing to do with smart glasses, and everything to do with surveillance capitalism. You could do the same thing with a smartphone, or any camera + computer. All this does is highlight how everyones most sensitive data has been aggregated by numerous corporations and is available to anyone who will pay for it. There was a time when Capitalism used to equate itself as the "free" and privacy preserving antithesis to Soviet style communist surveillance, yet no KGB agent ever had access to a system with 1/100th the surveillance capabilities that 21st century capitalism now sells freely for profit. If you need proof, a couple of college students were able to create every stalking victims worst nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean sort of.

It does mean that walking around with smart glasses will have people potentially reacting to you like you are waving a recording smartphone in their face.

Which is not great for product adoption, if you get my drift.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Soon smartglasses will look like regular glasses though. Miniaturisation isn't about to stop.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

New style: Frameless glasses or you are creeping.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Frameless glasses AND clear temples

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you can see what their brain is doing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can never quite trust an organ you can't see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yea the ray bans in question are completely discreet unless told or you've seen them already

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much no phone is directed at everyone else's face all the time, that alone is the huge difference. It's the differences between someone using their phone and someone actively holding it upright to record the crowd. Surveillance cameras might be out there too but they aren't sighted by everyone (different by country, some even have to deleted after 24h, unless there was a crime).

People quickly would tell you to stop recoding, if you'd hold up your phone all the time, even in situations where you're closer to each other, like in public transport.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Im sure you could find a usb c camera that could easily be obscured or pinned to a lapel or otherwise disguised for cheaper than the price of a pair of smart glasses, or even just wear your phone on a lanyard around your neck with the screen facing your chest. People might think its weird but noone is going to second guess it unless your phone is in your hands actively pointing at them.