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[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 51 points 1 month ago (40 children)

Like, I guess I don’t understand why these damn things have a camera in the first place. At most they should be roughly equivalent to a smart watch - a display and some controls. Maybe bone-conducting headphones or something for audio. It’d be neat to have navigation prompts in glasses, for instance. Buy why a fucking camera?!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

Were it not for the fact that it's the fucking privacy-invading big tech companies doing it, I would admit that there are good use-cases for the camera:

  • Reminding you of the name and possibly previous interactions with the person you're talking to, for instance (if it only did local lookup based on consensual photos you had previously added to your address book). I'm not face-blind or anything, but my memory is bad enough that that would be helpful to me.
  • Scanning, OCR-ing and making searchable any papers you're looking at (hooking to your selfhosted Paperless-NGX).
  • Displaying augmented-reality translations of street signs (which is one of the few reasonable things Google Glass actually did).
[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Even then I could see people not wanting picture, video, or audio recorded of them even if it is just kept locally for private use. And that's the problem of these glasses with trying to be discrete so people who would have avoided you or asked you to stop recording before having a conversation are left unaware.

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