Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses

“It gives a very helpful PoV, and I can see the instruments and where I was looking.”

“they're really fantastic. You can ask about fish you can see, or you can capture your kids in a moment”

“Yes it's true people have figured out how to disable the safeguard, but we all agree the important thing as we try to sell millions more of these is that we tried, right?”

“I've not found anything better for recording snippets of my glider flights than the Meta glasses.”

“The glasses become significantly less useful as mobility aids if you decide they're not allowed to have cameras in them.”

“ICE using the footage to hunt and kidnap people who "look" like undocumented immigrants”

“films his kids doing cute things without making the phone camera an ever present intrusion”

“Meta would not sell their shitty glasses without the light indicator and even with it, as it's trivial to hack there's large social pushback”

“I have the meta glasses (never wear them outside because of the stigma), and the actual killer feature is the headphones”

“They are nice for skydiving and probably some other sports where action cams are dangerous / awkward.”

“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”

“These glasses are intended for anti-social and predatory uses, with a paper-thin pretence over the top that Meta doesn't understand their market.”

“guides about disabling the indicators of active camera on smart glasses make me even more hesitant to normalize or condone such behavior”

“Having my main pair of prescription glasses, covered by insurance, also be my Bluetooth headset is super useful.”

“I find them invaluable capturing my toddler. Having the spontaneous ability to record hands-free is indispensable.”

“You have exhausted your monthly viewing time. You will be blind for the rest of the month unless you buy our special care package!”

“These companies are so unlikable, I don't understand why they think people want to permantly mount their data collection systems right in front of their eyes.”

“What person in their right mind would voluntarily walk around with "meta" or Google or Apple or any other surveillance camera and pay for doing so is beyond me.”

“they are selling because you can drill out the 'recording' indicator light and use them to secretly record people to make creepy TikToks.”

“they seem to be useful, if for no other reason than parents want to take picture of their children at a moment’s notice”

“The accessibility features for blind and low-sight individuals is life-changing.”

“I use them to film my toddler doing cute things without having to pull out the phone constantly”

“what's to stop the US ICE from requesting, and the authoritarian-administration-friendly billionaire executive leaders granting, special editions of the Meta glasses?”

“I bought meta gen 2 last month and I cannot describe how many sweet moments I have captured.”

“mostly as speakers/mic, but occasionally can use camera as well for some random shots”

“Meta glasses somewhat justify themselves just for recording hikes/cycles/weddings etc.”

“I've banned them from our office, for the same reason that I'd tell someone deliberately aiming their phone camera at the screen”

“this is just the pre-enshitification stage. Soon enough, to take advantage of those features you will have advertisements integrated into your view”

“amazing for vacations and recording any event where you want to be truly present”

“Compromising people's privacy for profit is what facebook does. Violating the trust of their users is basically all facebook has ever done.”

“Judging from the examples reported on in the article, Meta's smart glasses are either very easy to accidentally trigger or quite popular with actual creeps”

“POV camera footage without holding your phone out in front of you distracting you”

“You can seamlessly take a photos without having to pull your phone out of your pockets”

“you can now capture moments when your hands arent free (skiing, rollercoaster, tubing, kayaking, etc)”

“I use mine every single day, multiple hours a day. I can't imagine going back to AirPods.”

“A first person point of view for videos is very different than what's captured by a smartphone”

“Provides a much more intimate perspective, like you're actually at the Swiss Alps”

“I find the camera creepy and do not trust meta enough to put anything they make on my face”

“ever since a guy showed me a first-person go-karting video he took on his Ray-Ban Metas, I've been hooked on the idea of being able to record experiences like that”

“These are for travel videos (dense markets, or places where I can't logistically use a phone or camera).”