Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers around the country.
What I really want is a camera in my glasses that’s always loop recording like a dashcam so when my cat does something spontaneously cute I can clip that.
Of course, that’s probably impossible with current battery technology, and I’d want the app to be open source so I knew my glasses weren’t sending the footage to anyone else’s servers.
I also see a huge use to having a HUD in my glasses between navigation, reading chat during a livestream, watching videos while doing chores, but of course I won’t adapt that either unless an open source version becomes available.
I’m already wearing glasses on my face, might as well make them useful. I think I’d be willing to spend upwards of 1500USD on these frames if they did everything I mentioned at the bare minimum.
Tl;dr: I definitely want this product and see uses for it, but it also just isn’t there yet, let alone being made by any companies I’d buy from.
I definitely used to want stuff like that especially as somebody who also wears glasses anyway, so I get where you are coming from. But 20+ years of dealing with the Microsofts and Googles of the world have made me very cynical about such things and I am no longer certain that even open source it could be done in a way that protects privacy.
What I really want is a camera in my glasses that’s always loop recording like a dashcam so when my cat does something spontaneously cute I can clip that.
Of course, that’s probably impossible with current battery technology, and I’d want the app to be open source so I knew my glasses weren’t sending the footage to anyone else’s servers.
I also see a huge use to having a HUD in my glasses between navigation, reading chat during a livestream, watching videos while doing chores, but of course I won’t adapt that either unless an open source version becomes available.
I’m already wearing glasses on my face, might as well make them useful. I think I’d be willing to spend upwards of 1500USD on these frames if they did everything I mentioned at the bare minimum.
Tl;dr: I definitely want this product and see uses for it, but it also just isn’t there yet, let alone being made by any companies I’d buy from.
I definitely used to want stuff like that especially as somebody who also wears glasses anyway, so I get where you are coming from. But 20+ years of dealing with the Microsofts and Googles of the world have made me very cynical about such things and I am no longer certain that even open source it could be done in a way that protects privacy.