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> Its a bit strange of a default assumption to me. What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very nic

> Its a bit strange of a default assumption to me. What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. This product is absolutely toxic, and I can't imagine myself or anyone I know being willing to associate or socialize with someone wearing them (again, excluding some very specific a11y use).

AtlanticThird 2mo ago
My assumption about the default use case is that people want to take normal pictures. For example, I wear them to sporting events, and it's a lot faster to take a picture of the action with my Meta glasses than with my iPhone.
- whoamii 2mo ago
  What was your assumption about social media ca. 2010?
- Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
  It's very hard to imagine this being a better photo than one taken on a modern phone. Also, I really, really hope you take them off when using the shared bathrooms at such an event. And you know, keep them off. Permanently.
  - joemi 2mo ago
    If photo quality is the only concern, a DSLR camera will take a better picture than a modern phone, so you shouldn't use a phone either. But the person you're replying to didn't say it was "better", they said "faster", so that's what's more important to them.
  - AtlanticThird 2mo ago
    You're going to be disappointed. I wear them 24/7. I even sleep in them.
- johncearls 2mo ago
  I love mine. Being able to snap a pic without getting too far out of the moment, like when I am at a museum or in a beautiful place is great. Even better is being able to snap a picture of my grandchildren without distracting them. As soon as I pull out my phone, they are grabbing for it. Some of my favorite pics were taken by my meta glasses.
  - thwarted 2mo ago
    I can't think of a better example of intrusiveness than "as soon as I pull out my phone [the kids] are grabbing for it", which I'm reading as "the kids want to use it even tho it isn't theirs". We've trained the kids to intrude on someone else so they can get a dopamine hit.
  - flufluflufluffy 2mo ago
    > snap a picture of my grandchildren without distracting them That my friend is the reason everybody hates them
Windchaser 2mo ago
> What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. Hmm, here's a few that could potentially be implemented in augmented glasses, though I have no idea if they're implemented yet: - Giving me directions via an overlay when I'm walking around without requiring me to pull out my phone - overlay of a recipe when I'm cooking something new - pointing out constellations in the night sky - reminding me of people's names and/or upcoming plans with them - price comparisons in grocery stores; the glasses read the prices and tell you how they compare to prices in other nearby stores - (at the gym) correcting someone's form on weightlifting, with visual overlays - taking pictures in general - easy recording of ICE or police
- watwut 2mo ago
  > overlay of a recipe when I'm cooking something new I dont understand how this one comes up thay often. It just sounds like the most useless thing ever. These literally make me suspect I am only one who cooks here while others kind of imagine what it might be like or something. > price comparisons in grocery stores; the glasses read the prices and tell you how they compare to prices in other nearby stores Like you are going to another store for milk and to yet another for butter? Are you already doing that with phone and need to take it out is what prevents it?
  - Windchaser 2mo ago
    > I dont understand how this one comes up thay often. It just sounds like the most useless thing ever. These literally make me suspect I am only one who cooks here while others kind of imagine what it might be like or something. I cook all the time. I usually use my ipad for new recipes online, but it's a bit old and slow and I don't like having to scroll, and I wish there were better ways to record notes on the recipes. > Like you are going to another store for milk and to yet another for butter? I'll go to another store for milk and butter next time, if it's cheaper. > Are you already doing that with phone and need to take it out is what prevents it? No, I want another app to already to the price comparisons for me. But yeah, this is probably the weakest of the ideas. I'm not writing a doctoral dissertation here; I'm just running with some things I'd want to try out. It's off the cuff.
tetromino_ 2mo ago
> I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. Obvious non-perverted use cases: * HUD when your hands are occupied - biking, cooking, etc. * Camera-augmented navigation directions, especially indoors * Shopping, price comparison * Tourism, museum visits - automatically surfacing information about historical landmarks or artworks. I would have loved to have smart glasses for these reasons, but unfortunately, the perverts ruined it for the rest of us and made the product category toxic.
chandler5555 2mo ago
i love watching all the youtube shorts and instagrams of ppl helping or doing good deeds most of them use meta glasses it seems to record the pov
- gusgus01 2mo ago
  Some people might consider that falling into the "creepy" use case.
  - Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
    more than creepy, they're deeply inauthentic.
tiznow 2mo ago
Fishing videos are one of the best usecases I've seen for them, but people generally go fishing alone or with close friends/family so it's a much different scenario than being a glasshole in public.
arbll 2mo ago
They are nice for skydiving and probably some other sports where action cams are dangerous / awkward. It's definitely niche tho.
optymizer 2mo ago
Have you used the glasses at all? I for one prefer taking pictures with the Meta glasses when traveling. Taking a phone out of your pocket, launching an app, holding the phone in front of you until you align the object in focus and then tapping a button starts feeling so inelegant after a while, compared to a quick press on the side of the glasses. The picture also comes out looking exactly how you saw it, videos are from your POV. When driving, I like hearing the GPS navigation instructions discreetly without having my ears blocked by earphones and the car music being interrupted (also my wife can't stand the navigation voice and always asks me to silence it. With the glasses I can still hear the instructions). Again, when traveling, if I'm staring at a building or something I'm curious about, I can ask the AI to tell me more things about the thing I'm looking at. It's quick and convenient.
ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago
They could have been of use to replace bike cameras for cycling (so that you have evidence of close passes etc), but the battery life and resolution isn't great, so bike cameras are currently a lot better for that.
ipaddr 2mo ago
The default is people live streaming their day. Live streaming is very popular with young people not so with older people.
bookofjoe 2mo ago
I use mine to record a short video at each mile when I'm out running, then I upload them to my YouTube channel. People seem to enjoy them and I like having a record of each run.
subscribed 2mo ago
I'm on holidays now, and I'd love to preserve so much more of what I see, or see live translation (subtitles), of all the people I struggle to communicate with. Not everyone has the most perverted thoughts in their mind all the time.

AtlanticThird 2mo ago

My assumption about the default use case is that people want to take normal pictures. For example, I wear them to sporting events, and it's a lot faster to take a picture of the action with my Meta glasses than with my iPhone.

whoamii 2mo ago
What was your assumption about social media ca. 2010?
Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
It's very hard to imagine this being a better photo than one taken on a modern phone. Also, I really, really hope you take them off when using the shared bathrooms at such an event. And you know, keep them off. Permanently.
- joemi 2mo ago
  If photo quality is the only concern, a DSLR camera will take a better picture than a modern phone, so you shouldn't use a phone either. But the person you're replying to didn't say it was "better", they said "faster", so that's what's more important to them.
- AtlanticThird 2mo ago
  You're going to be disappointed. I wear them 24/7. I even sleep in them.
johncearls 2mo ago
I love mine. Being able to snap a pic without getting too far out of the moment, like when I am at a museum or in a beautiful place is great. Even better is being able to snap a picture of my grandchildren without distracting them. As soon as I pull out my phone, they are grabbing for it. Some of my favorite pics were taken by my meta glasses.
- thwarted 2mo ago
  I can't think of a better example of intrusiveness than "as soon as I pull out my phone [the kids] are grabbing for it", which I'm reading as "the kids want to use it even tho it isn't theirs". We've trained the kids to intrude on someone else so they can get a dopamine hit.
- flufluflufluffy 2mo ago
  > snap a picture of my grandchildren without distracting them That my friend is the reason everybody hates them

Windchaser 2mo ago

> What is _your_ default assumption re: use case? I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. Hmm, here's a few that could potentially be implemented in augmented glasses, though I have no idea if they're implemented yet: - Giving me directions via an overlay when I'm walking around without requiring me to pull out my phone - overlay of a recipe when I'm cooking something new - pointing out constellations in the night sky - reminding me of people's names and/or upcoming plans with them - price comparisons in grocery stores; the glasses read the prices and tell you how they compare to prices in other nearby stores - (at the gym) correcting someone's form on weightlifting, with visual overlays - taking pictures in general - easy recording of ICE or police

watwut 2mo ago
> overlay of a recipe when I'm cooking something new I dont understand how this one comes up thay often. It just sounds like the most useless thing ever. These literally make me suspect I am only one who cooks here while others kind of imagine what it might be like or something. > price comparisons in grocery stores; the glasses read the prices and tell you how they compare to prices in other nearby stores Like you are going to another store for milk and to yet another for butter? Are you already doing that with phone and need to take it out is what prevents it?
- Windchaser 2mo ago
  > I dont understand how this one comes up thay often. It just sounds like the most useless thing ever. These literally make me suspect I am only one who cooks here while others kind of imagine what it might be like or something. I cook all the time. I usually use my ipad for new recipes online, but it's a bit old and slow and I don't like having to scroll, and I wish there were better ways to record notes on the recipes. > Like you are going to another store for milk and to yet another for butter? I'll go to another store for milk and butter next time, if it's cheaper. > Are you already doing that with phone and need to take it out is what prevents it? No, I want another app to already to the price comparisons for me. But yeah, this is probably the weakest of the ideas. I'm not writing a doctoral dissertation here; I'm just running with some things I'd want to try out. It's off the cuff.

tetromino_ 2mo ago

> I honestly can't think of any use cases (outside of very niche a11y uses) that are not in some way offensive, though perhaps not 'perverted'. Obvious non-perverted use cases: * HUD when your hands are occupied - biking, cooking, etc. * Camera-augmented navigation directions, especially indoors * Shopping, price comparison * Tourism, museum visits - automatically surfacing information about historical landmarks or artworks. I would have loved to have smart glasses for these reasons, but unfortunately, the perverts ruined it for the rest of us and made the product category toxic.

chandler5555 2mo ago

i love watching all the youtube shorts and instagrams of ppl helping or doing good deeds most of them use meta glasses it seems to record the pov

gusgus01 2mo ago
Some people might consider that falling into the "creepy" use case.
- Octoth0rpe 2mo ago
  more than creepy, they're deeply inauthentic.

tiznow 2mo ago

Fishing videos are one of the best usecases I've seen for them, but people generally go fishing alone or with close friends/family so it's a much different scenario than being a glasshole in public.

arbll 2mo ago

They are nice for skydiving and probably some other sports where action cams are dangerous / awkward. It's definitely niche tho.

optymizer 2mo ago

Have you used the glasses at all? I for one prefer taking pictures with the Meta glasses when traveling. Taking a phone out of your pocket, launching an app, holding the phone in front of you until you align the object in focus and then tapping a button starts feeling so inelegant after a while, compared to a quick press on the side of the glasses. The picture also comes out looking exactly how you saw it, videos are from your POV. When driving, I like hearing the GPS navigation instructions discreetly without having my ears blocked by earphones and the car music being interrupted (also my wife can't stand the navigation voice and always asks me to silence it. With the glasses I can still hear the instructions). Again, when traveling, if I'm staring at a building or something I'm curious about, I can ask the AI to tell me more things about the thing I'm looking at. It's quick and convenient.

ndsipa_pomu 2mo ago

They could have been of use to replace bike cameras for cycling (so that you have evidence of close passes etc), but the battery life and resolution isn't great, so bike cameras are currently a lot better for that.

ipaddr 2mo ago

The default is people live streaming their day. Live streaming is very popular with young people not so with older people.

bookofjoe 2mo ago

I use mine to record a short video at each mile when I'm out running, then I upload them to my YouTube channel. People seem to enjoy them and I like having a record of each run.

subscribed 2mo ago

I'm on holidays now, and I'd love to preserve so much more of what I see, or see live translation (subtitles), of all the people I struggle to communicate with. Not everyone has the most perverted thoughts in their mind all the time.