One of my favorite details was near the end of the article, where Meta plays dumb when asked about this issue, and feigning an inability to find the abusers of the glasses that 404 Media had identified:
“After reaching out to Meta for comment, the company asked me for examples of the videos, indicating that it wasn’t able to find them itself. Meta then removed the account I flagged, as well as other accounts by the same creator, who apparently set up multiple accounts in preparation for moderation.”
Just top-notch scumbaggery here, from meta and from these individuals going around in public wearing them.
My father and my brother in law both use the glasses*.
My BIL has a degenerative eye disease so this kind of technology could very well absolutely assist him in the not so far future. But my dad is just an absolute whore for bleeding edge consumer tech.
He also bought into Google Stadia for example.
How does a massage parlour help with your brother’s eye issues?
It’s the only way to relax the eye socket :P
How are the glasses helping your brother? Do they allow him to read at distances, like street signs, or restaurant overhead menus?
I also have vision issues, and this type of technology has so much potential to help, but that’s never the focus for the tech bros, so they never deliver on their potential to help people.
Texted my sister!
So apparently he hasn’t replaced them yet and they are still broken.
They are VERY much still in an alpha state it seems.
My sister has a hope that they will be good at reading text or helping identify people later on in the technology but are still very much a WIP for a vision impaired tool.
Yeah. Thanks for the reply. Google glass had so much potential to help people like 10 years ago. But it was just tech bro bullshit and people making amateur porn. Sadly this time, I suspect it will be the same thing all over again.
I hope it helps your brother.
I’ll try and ask him about it.
I’ll be seeing him this weekend so I’ll try and lowkey ask him. It’s a somewhat recent diagnosis but I also know he broke his glasses swimming at the beach this past summer and only recently replaced them.
He doesn’t lose vision clarity per se, it’s more that his FOV in certain sections becomes much more limited before fuzzing out altogether.
Stadia is good from a tech standpoint, the only problem was it was run by google