Time to develop a system to detect these glasses asafp. Court houses, jails, strip clubs will be the first to buy them up. Then bars/clubs for liability reasons. Then everywhere else as who wants that shit around.
Wait, didn’t they JUST start rolling these stupid things out? And theyre already to “its a subscription now” levels of enshitification?
Boy, I guess we’re just speed running everything these days.
Can’t wait until trash corps start selling implants to zombie consumers, and then start f*cking around with the subscription model.
While the company insists that owners technically don’t have to shell out $20 a month, even premium subscribers will be locked out after using 15 hours of “Conversation Focus,” a feature that amplifies the voices of people you’re talking to, per month. Without a subscription, owners are restricted to just three hours of the feature a month.
Bwhahhaaha - it’s a hearing aid! Just buy a fucking hearing aid!
In the literal sense, yes. In the clinical sense, no.
That being said, there’s value in a hearing aid that doesn’t look like a hearing aid. It’s why Apple implemented a similar functionality into AirPods.
That being said, this is not a special feature, it’s just Meta leveraging their marketing and ability to change the terms OTA to squeeze every dollar possible out of their customers.
Arguably they’re also potentially more helpful if they can detect who you’re looking at and only amplify that person’s voice.
It’s not even that sophisticated. A hearing aid works by directly stimulating the small bones in the ear. This is just a pair of earbuds with audio passthrough and a volume knob
How else are they going to pay for server upkeep to store everything it hears?
That’s pretty shitty. But I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for anyone buying Meta’s
smart glassessurveillance tech. Fuckin’ narcs.Agreed. To expand on that, I have zero sympathy for anyone who complains about the worldwide rise of fascism while still participating in corporate-owned social media or shopping at Amazon/Temu as anything other than a last resort for essential items.
Like, who do they think is funding all these fascists and where exactly do they think all the money comes from?
“Our AI has detected you’re taking a lot of videos and photos of children in public. If you would like us to not inform your family and workplace of this please sign up for our $99.99 monthly secrecy package.”
“We have also signed you up to the GOP mailing list for your convenience in finding like-minded individuals and a sense of community.”
“If you think you may require a presidential pardon for any crimes against children that may soon come to light, we can also provide contact with his son, who heads the PPPP (Persidential Pedophile Pardon Program) to arrange that. Our service is $2,500, which must be paid prior to receiving the contact information and is in no way a guarantee of their acceptance or a part of their own fee.”
I was gonna say into the faraday cage you go but it’s probably already on the cloud.
Blackmail as a Service (BaaS)
Bait and switch? Weird, who ever would have saw that coming?
All you idiots willingly buying shit that you can’t control are encouraging this bs
This is likely connected to the recent AI price hikes.
People stupid enough to buy smart glasses from META, are probably also stupid enough to pay a monthly fee.
I think META should make an advertising subscription, where users pay extra to have advertisements shown at intervals too.
I bet a pretty decent percentage of users would pay for that.Corpos gonna corpo. Anyone who’s seen how meta operates could have and should have expected this. Plus, these are a luxury. Nobody “needs” these to live.
Meta is shitty for doing this but I’m still having a really hard time feeling bad for any of the buyers.
