I didn’t know Google had a blog.
It all looks and sounds quite attractive now. Super clever on Google’s part to implement this, as now they’ll see and hear the world exactly as their users see and hear the world. I dread to think of the surveillance nightmare our environments will become if this takes off.
Remember when people got the beat up for wearing “smart glasses”? I remember when Google Glass was still an invite only thing, retailing for like $1200. I ran into a Google employee as CES in 2012 and she was wearing them, admittedly looked very cool. When I got to talking to her about the intended use case, she struggled to give an example that didn’t boil down to just “watching everything you do, recording everything everything you say, and Google keeps a full record of all of it.”
On a non-Google note, I called a plumber not too long ago and he showed up wearing Meta Glasses. I asked him to remove them while inside my home, and he refused (they were prescription, so okay). He swore they were off, but I asked him to leave all the same and have the company dispatch someone who wasn’t going to show up wearing surveillance equipment.
I think that is a good response.
Google should’ve learned from Google Glass (like all tech companies should’ve) and not put cameras/mics on these.
The next version of:
I wonder what they will build next with all this new data. Undoubtedly more realistic AI video generation if I had to guess.
(Sorry for the image, I sent it to someone a few days ago and can’t find the original post now lol)
There’s also this: GitHub - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you · GitHub
