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Just wait until they start pushing ads onto your vision wherever there’s a blank wall…
‘They Live’ was way ahead of it’s time
That movie was so much better than I gave it credit for at the time.
Rewatched it recently, a B movie that had more depth than appeared at first (and yes, the irony isn’t list on me).
Dream on. If smart glasses gain a massive amount of users in 2025, I’ll put a sock in my mouth. Still not enough reason to carry around both smart glasses and a smart phone. Smart watches already are there for tech enthusiasts and they can always go with a VR headset to get a hardcore AR experience.
I saw an ad showing how smart glasses help shoot creative videos. The guy wearing them does a slow spin and runs up to a girl who does the influencer “fake awe” thing at the sky. Then another shot he just backs away from her.
The resulting video failed to demonstrate what the glasses could do that a phone couldn’t. It was worse than a phone and the guy looked like an idiot filming it.
For smart glasses to be adopted they really need to be executed perfectly. No one wants to fuss around with anything on their face and directly affecting their vision. I don’t see the hardware and software worked out smoothly enough for this to be popular for at least another three years. Save a sock for me, I’m on record saying this isn’t happening on any kind of large scale in 2025.
Cost is also a big thing. With tariffs on Chinese tech goods coming into effect and the fact that everything has gone up in price, like necessary things like groceries (plus the very high likelihood of inflation/greedflation continuing to strangle non-rich people), it’s a recipe for people to hang onto their money, not feel safe to spend it.
Unless they say somehow heavily subsidize it with ads and/or some kind of government fund hackery, I think we’re all safe from sock-mouth.
Still need legislation on this so every fucking dork walking around in these isn’t just feeding facial recognition data data to whomever which can then be accessed by anyone with enough money to pay for it.
See, you just need to wear glasses that project something to foil the facial recognition. Of course, they’ll come up with something to jam your obfuscator but you can upgrade to full body EM cloaking. Of course, they’ll implement…
It’s just going to be a constant escalation until rich people don’t go out in public anymore and poor people get regular back room body modifications.
Now that I would actually buy. Smart glasses that project a digital screen over my face that scrambles all face reco tech.
Just wear IR emitters. Works a charm to foil tiny camera sensors with no filters.
