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Value to vision-impaired users would increase with an SDK, https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/General-VR-MR-Development/Suggestion-for-Developing-an-SDK-for-

Value to vision-impaired users would increase with an SDK, https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/General-VR-MR-Development/Suggestion-for-Developing-an-SDK-for-Meta-Ray-ban-Glasses/td-p/1196341/page/2 https://communityforums.atmeta.com/t5/General-VR-MR-Developm...

maeil 2y ago
The second they make this and make it useful in any way, immediately the apps people create will lay bare exactly how bad of a privacy invasion they are, tons of bad press ensuing. It's definitely not technical hurdles preventing them from making one.
- walterbell 2y ago
  Already done without the SDK, https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart-glasses-to-automatically-dox-strangers-via-instagram-streams-170228496.html https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart... Censorship and alignment (speech, LLMs, glasses, drones, ..) rarely stops negative scenarios, but it slows positive scenarios from existence and competition with negative scenarios. They did partner with BMW, CMU and some universities, https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/ https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/
  - maeil 2y ago
    An engadget article is a different order of magnitude than MSM. Of course tech people have always known what they're really like.
    - walterbell 2y ago
      How about Fox News? https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facial-recognition-glasses-turn-everyday-life-creepy-privacy-nightmare https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facial-recognition-glasses-turn...
BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
I agree with you, but "could this be better" is a different question than "does this help people". I'm sure everyone would welcome competing devices. Well, Meta and EssilorLuxottica are showing that a profitable market exists.
- walterbell 2y ago
  https://archive.is/L9jY6 https://archive.is/L9jY6 > Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which oversees the product as well as its virtual- and augmented-reality goggles, reported losses of nearly $5 billion in the fourth quarter.
  - BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
    Reality Labs is much much bigger than this product. It's unreasonable to point to their aggregate losses here unless you have some indication that those losses are due to this product.

maeil 2y ago

The second they make this and make it useful in any way, immediately the apps people create will lay bare exactly how bad of a privacy invasion they are, tons of bad press ensuing. It's definitely not technical hurdles preventing them from making one.

walterbell 2y ago
Already done without the SDK, https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart-glasses-to-automatically-dox-strangers-via-instagram-streams-170228496.html https://www.engadget.com/wearables/students-used-metas-smart... Censorship and alignment (speech, LLMs, glasses, drones, ..) rarely stops negative scenarios, but it slows positive scenarios from existence and competition with negative scenarios. They did partner with BMW, CMU and some universities, https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/ https://www.projectaria.com/research-kit/
- maeil 2y ago
  An engadget article is a different order of magnitude than MSM. Of course tech people have always known what they're really like.
  - walterbell 2y ago
    How about Fox News? https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facial-recognition-glasses-turn-everyday-life-creepy-privacy-nightmare https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facial-recognition-glasses-turn...

BugsJustFindMe 2y ago

I agree with you, but "could this be better" is a different question than "does this help people". I'm sure everyone would welcome competing devices. Well, Meta and EssilorLuxottica are showing that a profitable market exists.

walterbell 2y ago
https://archive.is/L9jY6 https://archive.is/L9jY6 > Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which oversees the product as well as its virtual- and augmented-reality goggles, reported losses of nearly $5 billion in the fourth quarter.
- BugsJustFindMe 2y ago
  Reality Labs is much much bigger than this product. It's unreasonable to point to their aggregate losses here unless you have some indication that those losses are due to this product.