Writes Chris Velazco "I spent months living with smart glasses. People talk to me differently now. Eyeglasses are being augmented with screens, artificial intelligence and the power to unnerve people. We tested a pair to see how" (WaPo).
There's also this video. The most interesting part of that is Velazco's admission that his favorite use of the technology is to view inspirational messages that he has chosen for himself, such as: "You can do anything. You have what it takes. Just BELIEVE."
Imagine someone talking to you in person, looking in the direction of your eyes, but actually reading bullshit they've loaded into their glasses. May I suggest the inspirational message: Stay in the moment. Be spontaneous. The person in front of you might be a fully engaged HUMAN BEING!
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"Until that happens..."
Not unless. Until.
It's just a matter of time.
Is having "You can do anything. You have what it takes. Just BELIEVE" projected inside your glasses more cool or less cool than having "You can do anything. You have what it takes. Just BELIEVE" carved in wood and hanging on the wall in your kitchen?
Until they can truly realize the promise of the "X-Ray Specs" I mail-ordered fifty years ago from the back of a comic book, I'm not interested.
The Hearing Aid component appears helpful.
The rest of the features seem like the worst ass-specs of social media.
"Until they can truly realize the promise of the "X-Ray Specs" I mail-ordered fifty years ago from the back of a comic book, I'm not interested."
I think that will be quite easy, and think how valuable it will be to those with stage fright who have, for decades, been given the advice to picture the audience naked.
The funny thing is, you probably DON'T have what it takes... .
We originally thought all this tech would connect humanity only to have it disconnect us from one another.
Chris Velazco is not recording your conversation, but somewhere Big Tech certainly is.
Its like a Cybertruck for your face.
I've been watching old Super Dave episodes.The all-time classic: repeat a mantra that will calm your fears as you plan to go over the cars, etc. But only the right mantra will have this power. Super tries several mantras, but he's still afraid. He keeps backing up from the original start line. He asks his sidekick: do you have a mantra? How about: highway, where he now is? Boom.
Having it projected is a dynamic display, unlike whatever BS is written on the wall. You can project a thousand things, most, probably, that come up randomly, unselected.
I've never been tempted. It seems like my phone, but even more distracting.
For those that know about these devices; the guy in the video uses Ray-Ban Meta and Even G1 glasses. No Viture, RayNeo, or Xreal. It is the equivalent of having an original iPod and calling it smart. These devices are not AI, and all they can do is take pictures and play music. The Even G1 is like having your basic planner as a heads-up display. It is the modern equivalent of a Palm Pilot built into your glasses, but with less capability.
This improves human interaction by requiring the people in front of you to up their game and find ways to be more entertaining than what's on your glasses. "Come on you guys, if you can't engage me, I'm just going to stand here and read Ann Althouse's post encouraging me to engage with people." ;-)
We already have the distraction of an individual looking at their phone - even a glance - while talking to them.
Imagine getting David Mamet style motivational messages on your eye glasses: Always be closing. First prize: a new car; second prize: steak knives. Third prize: you are fired. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue!
In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, people who wear these kinds of always-on displays in public are called "Gargoyles" and are socially shunned. I think that's a good idea.
Meh. It's a product.
Some won't be able to live without it (ann??)
Just like with the cameras, phones, devices that don't let you interact with life, except to photograph and capture/post it.
Buy what you like, ann. We won't judge.
I suspect the same people that were unnerved by the glasses have Alexa in their homes, Ring on their doors, and the Meta period tracking app that just got dinged for eavesdropping on HIPAA protected medical information.
90% of America gives it up for free. Hookers have more dignity.
"You can do anything. You have what it takes. Just BELIEVE"
Does this moron think that the glasses have studied him and made an accurate assessment?
New material for his glasses
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take…. And 97% percent of the ones you do take.”
They just need the voice of the now obsolete Mr. Moviephone like in the movie Josie and the Pussycats.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aQDskaLUdAQ
There's that word 'Performative' again. You can put a camera and a microphone almost anywhere, but nobody seems too concerned about whether their control of the feed is absolute - or not. When 'being connected' is the same thing as 'being tied up'.
Althouse at 5:17 for the win!
I've taught public speaking at the corporate and college level; I've never used that example of "imagining your audience naked". I suggest complete comfortability with your subject matter, to start. Men are visual so we would stop speaking and just look for the cheeky women in the audience.
I am getting addicted to the police bodycam and driver cams online; don't let me start seeing personal interactions due to these glasses going viral.
@Marcus Bressler, if police body cams are any indication, the people who pushed them because they thought they'd show what they wanted them to show will be severely disappointed.
The ultimate end of course is that we become the hosts of AI.
We bring AI into the real world. At first it’s an optional accessory, as with smart glasses. You find it advantageous to wear them while interacting with the tech free colleagues and friends, then they perceiving the possible advantages you’ve gained adopt in kind. So then it gradually becomes AI interacting with AI. Next logical step? Implantable AI.
It helps us fall asleep at night, get up in the morning and ensures perfect interaction between ourselves and the other AI enabled among us. I could go on, but I think you’ll get the point.
Is this a good thing or bad? Or just a new feature we’ll learn to manage? Only time will tell.
Indeed, RSM, Body Cams are showing (many times) that LEOs have much more patience than I would.
Too late for Kamala and Joe.
Get used to being recorded everytime you meet people in public or are just out in public.
@Marcus Bressler, funnily enough did you know there are communities (I don't even have to name them...you know which ones) that are now trying to ban the police body cams they originally promoted? I don't even have to tell you why...we all know why.
I would give the benefit of the doubt in most situations to the person who rips off camera glasses and stomps them to bits. While people cannot have the expectation of privacy in public, far too many jerks are allowed to be jerks.
"Money Manger said...
Until they can truly realize the promise of the "X-Ray Specs" I mail-ordered fifty years ago from the back of a comic book, I'm not interested."
Back in the multi-lens, 35 mm days, I told the 13 year old boy neighbor that I had a lens that could see through women's clothes.
He was thrilled to hear that, followed by disappointment when I said law is you have to be 18 to use it
"TosaGuy said...
I would give the benefit of the doubt in most situations to the person who rips off camera glasses and stomps them to bits. While people cannot have the expectation of privacy in public,.."
Couple of women filming argument between 2 other women outside bar in San Jose, ca.
Arguers object, get into fight with camera/phone women.
Man intervenes to break up fight.
Woman stabs man.
Man dead.
Like the old joke:
She hugged me, I kissed her, she crossed her legs and broke my glasses.
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