No one knows what to call these things
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AI glasses? Wired XR glasses? AR glasses?

I got a few suggestions:

  • Spywear
  • Panopticals
  • Suckerbucks
  • LensCrappers

The thing is, if these things had a reason for existing besides being data-collection apparatuses for big tech, I would love them. Not to wear out and about, but for various tasks where a heads-up display would be useful. Like, imagine working on an Arduino, ESP32, etc project and having the pinout overlaid. Or having them display the readout from a multimeter while you’re doing electrical work.

Here’s hoping the jailbreak scene on these is promising.

  • derfunkatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I’ll take “solutions to non-existent problems” for $500.

    I don’t have a snarky term at the ready, but nightmare shades is what comes to mind.

    I distrust these companies and the entire ethos surrounding wearable tech so much that I can’t help but imagine that products like AI (or XR) glasses are just the precursor to something even more awful like implantable tech or other cyberpunk-styled body-mods. I wore a smart watch for a while and all it did was teach me to read my texts twice and spam me with notifications. Once I disabled the move/hydrate prompts and the text and email notifications, it became quite useless on its own. With glasses, it will just become another distraction and data harvester.

    More than one Silicon Valley tech dude has been outed as a techno-feudalist singularity-obsessed trans-humanist who read speculative sci-fi and came away with the worst possible interpretation. I can’t imagine any way to positively frame these things.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      That’s…pretty much it.

      Though I’ll concede the hardware could be useful (not as everyday wear but as a purpose-specific tool).

      I did have a smartwatch for a while but it was a DIY kind (Lilygo T-Watch) where you could write your own firmware. Only reason I stopped using it was the battery life was like 90 minutes tops if you wanted to do anything useful with it (ESP32’s Bluetooth “low energy” is anything but).

      Notifications were kind of useful (I already have my notifications pared down to only essential things) but I found it most useful as a remote control for my phone (media controls, quick actions, etc).

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      I’ll take “solutions to non-existent problems” for $500.

      Problem, how to get images of women in public for later “study”.