Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
I’ve heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you’re visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses “hey, do these items match?”
Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.
Sorry - she has keratoconus. Her prosthetics are essentially large, hard contact lenses, filled with saline solution, effectively reshaping her corneas. Also called sclerals.
Ok that’s fair. I’ve just never heard of glasses referred to as prosthetics and assumed you meant some kind of artificial seeing device. Which is suppose is what glasses are but I was hoping for a more high tech answer.
Real question: do other lemmy viewers not show usernames on posts or do a lot of people just not read them? Cause I’ve deffo had other instances of people not realizing they were talking to someone else.
to increase their independence? are you kidding me? then don’t be surprised when that so very important function to give clothing advice will suddenly become a subscription service with ever increasing fee! all the while still trampling on the privacy of everyone near you
while, yet again, trampling on human rights, out of convenience no less.
I mean! they could be even more convenient, and just order it online! and what do I care if that’s what they do. this tech is really not so necessary.
but of course I am the scumbag if I don’t like the blind person scanning my face with the Google Lens app just so they can politely greet me by my name.
It’s down to convenience. I’m already looking at what i’m what i’m trying to film, instead of just recording that, i’m looking at my phone screen to try to record the thing and not even witnessing it in real life. I’m at my kids track meet, any time i’m trying to record him running i’m experiencing it through a 5" amoled screen so i my wife can have a video instead of just being there.
We can figure out how to make them impossible not to notice they’re recording. we just need privacy shutters or to have to hold the temple or something.
I’ve heard those sorts of glasses can be handy if you’re visually impaired and, say, clothes shopping. You can ask the glasses “hey, do these items match?”
Still creepy in the wild, but there are some valid use cases.
edit to add examples:
Like an automated version of the Be My Eyes app.
My wife helps people with this app on a regular basis.
Nah. My wife is legally blind without her prosthetics. She’s rather stay blind than use these.
What do you mean she is blind without her prosthetics? Isn’t she still blind with the prosthetics or do they help with vision somehow?
Sorry - she has keratoconus. Her prosthetics are essentially large, hard contact lenses, filled with saline solution, effectively reshaping her corneas. Also called sclerals.
Glasses to help see are prosthetics. People can be legally blind when not wearing their corrective lenses.
Ok that’s fair. I’ve just never heard of glasses referred to as prosthetics and assumed you meant some kind of artificial seeing device. Which is suppose is what glasses are but I was hoping for a more high tech answer.
(the account you just replied to isn’t the account with the blind wife who uses prosthetics)
Oh wow maybe I need prosthetics too
While this is correct, I AM, in fact, someone who wears glasses and knows some stuff about them and their uses.
Yep, no shade on you, I just didn’t want the other person to think they’d heard back from the other other person.
Real question: do other lemmy viewers not show usernames on posts or do a lot of people just not read them? Cause I’ve deffo had other instances of people not realizing they were talking to someone else.
those are some fucking priorities. a little fashion over human rights
Yes, and anyone that buys these glasses to increase their independence is a predator, like the parent poster says. /s
to increase their independence? are you kidding me? then don’t be surprised when that so very important function to give clothing advice will suddenly become a subscription service with ever increasing fee! all the while still trampling on the privacy of everyone near you
Yes, how dare someone want to buy dog food without asking for help.
while, yet again, trampling on human rights, out of convenience no less.
I mean! they could be even more convenient, and just order it online! and what do I care if that’s what they do. this tech is really not so necessary.
but of course I am the scumbag if I don’t like the blind person scanning my face with the Google Lens app just so they can politely greet me by my name.
You don’t need glasses for that, you could simply use an on-hand camera, maybe a special phone for those with vision problems
You could carry a laptop and use it’s webcam too
It’s down to convenience. I’m already looking at what i’m what i’m trying to film, instead of just recording that, i’m looking at my phone screen to try to record the thing and not even witnessing it in real life. I’m at my kids track meet, any time i’m trying to record him running i’m experiencing it through a 5" amoled screen so i my wife can have a video instead of just being there.
We can figure out how to make them impossible not to notice they’re recording. we just need privacy shutters or to have to hold the temple or something.