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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Wispy2891@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] andresil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (48 children)

It's funny, I would love to some have the novel tech they developed (HUD / display built into glasses since I'm wearing them anyways). The problem, as usual, is corps taking the piss with prices and profit then spying on you and everyone around you non-stop anyways....

I would 100% be open to some HUD glasses delivered with a FOSS OS that works completely offline and/or via your phone (but still offline). But that's seriously wishful thinking given our corporate and political overlords

[–] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (41 children)

I can't think of anything I would want to have pop up in my view. I have a phone to hand all day, and the notifies me of important things.

Can you think of anything that you actually want so see constantly or so immediately you can't pull a phone out of your pocket?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Following recipes. These days I print them out because it's a pain constantly washing your hands to check the next step on the phone. But I'm not buying smart glasses just that. My normal glasses are expensive enough already.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

This has actually been the one thing I have been using AI for. I tell Gemini I'm going to cook some recipe and walk me through it and then ask questions as I'm going. Most of the time it does a decent job.

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