While the company insists that owners technically don’t have to shell out $20 a month, even premium subscribers will be locked out after using 15 hours of “Conversation Focus,” a feature that amplifies the voices of people you’re talking to, per month. Without a subscription, owners are restricted to just three hours of the feature a month.
Bwhahhaaha - it’s a hearing aid! Just buy a fucking hearing aid!
In the literal sense, yes. In the clinical sense, no.
That being said, there’s value in a hearing aid that doesn’t look like a hearing aid. It’s why Apple implemented a similar functionality into AirPods.
That being said, this is not a special feature, it’s just Meta leveraging their marketing and ability to change the terms OTA to squeeze every dollar possible out of their customers.
Arguably they’re also potentially more helpful if they can detect who you’re looking at and only amplify that person’s voice.
How else are they going to pay for server upkeep to store everything it hears?
It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob
Wait, didn’t they JUST start rolling these stupid things out? And theyre already to “its a subscription now” levels of enshitification?
Boy, I guess we’re just speed running everything these days.
That’s pretty shitty. But I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for anyone buying Meta’s
smart glassessurveillance tech. Fuckin’ narcs.Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.
Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?
Time to develop a system to detect these glasses asafp. Court houses, jails, strip clubs will be the first to buy them up. Then bars/clubs for liability reasons. Then everywhere else as who wants that shit around.
“Our AI has detected you’re taking a lot of videos and photos of children in public. If you would like us to not inform your family and workplace of this please sign up for our $99.99 monthly secrecy package.”
“We have also signed you up to the GOP mailing list for your convenience in finding like-minded individuals and a sense of community.”
“If you think you may require a presidential pardon for any crimes against children that may soon come to light, we can also provide contact with his son, who heads the PPPP (Persidential Pedophile Pardon Program) to arrange that. Our service is $2,500, which must be paid prior to receiving the contact information and is in no way a guarantee of their acceptance or a part of their own fee.”
