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It's not that Glass is so much "better" at discrete filming - it's that it would be more common. Most people don't buy or carry around pen cameras. Glass, on th
by ignostic 14y ago
It's not that Glass is so much "better" at discrete filming - it's that it would be more common. Most people don't buy or carry around pen cameras. Glass, on the other hand, would have so many other uses that many people would already have have them.
Further, even hidden cameras require a degree of boldness to point and position. It's far easier and less conspicuous to record when you simply need to look in the right direction.
- mc32 14y agoI think this is exactly right. The difusion of this tech would give this kind of public recording public legitimacy. While recording in public is legal, it's still viewed as creepy --but ubiquitousness would make this 'normal' and accepted. Just as 20 years ago appearing that you were talking to yourself would have been odd, now talking out loud is normal because people have internalized that speaking into a phone's wireless mic is normal.