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The sales of the glasses have been better than their VR headset which has really made them double down on the glasses as they see big potential. That said, I really think that it is a false hope as I suspect the market that is ok wearing Facebook glasses are small, but loyal.
These things should not be protected property. If you assault my privacy, I should be allowed to attack back.
Most countries it's legal to record in public, as there's no reasonable expectation of privacy. Though these are a bit different than say someone with a phone or camera, as unless you pay close attention the glasses are easy to miss....
I disagree. Secretly recording someone with a phone is much easier than doing it with one of these. It's the same issue people had with Google Glass back in the day.
I think the reason it feels creepier is because, if you're talking with someone that's wearing them, it feels like they're sticking a camera in your face.
But like I could turn on my phone camera, leave it sticking out of my pocket, and record everyone taking a piss in a public restroom with nobody noticing. If I tried to do that with glasses, I'd have to turn my head towards everyone's cock, one at a time. The neck pain alone makes it not worth the effort.
But to be clear, fuck Meta. These glasses should be banned for many other reasons.
Agree with you for the most part.
Though your example of a public toilet is a bit flawed, since there IS a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Google Glass was waaaaaaaaaay more obvious.
Where the meta ones are a little less so.
Depending on lighting, and distance from the Glasshole, could be really hard to spot the Meta ones.
Agreed. My friend has a pair of the meta glasses and i didn’t even realize they were meta glasses until he told me. The camera isn’t very noticeable unless you know what you’re looking for.
Not in my country.
Coolies, care to elaborate
I'm not the original commenter, but in Germany, you can record in public, but can not record individuals specifically. People walking past in the background while you record something else is fine. Recording someone specifically is not.
That's the baseline, at least. Exceptions may apply (public figures, public interest, etc).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#Germany
theres probably exceptions to it like recording admittance of a crime, or a crime situation happening
Not my country and i doubt most of the EU.
There's a difference between walking by a film crew and some rando filming you whithout you even knowing.
I've seen some amazing POV footage from them, because the lens is actually in line with your eye level.
So, a lot of the market would be people who would otherwise use a GoPro.
...your talking about what I'm thinking right? I'm not just a massive pervert right? Please 😅
Mostly people riding bicycles off the side of mountains.
yahknow, if it wern't for the fact that i know they're a scummy company, i'd try them.
just wait patiently for valve to make some
... Spoiler for you, but Valve is a shitty company.
Edit: whoosh the fanbois are out there! We don't share the same value if you think it's ok for 10 years old to become gambling addicts because of Valve's practices.
I deleted my Reddit account because it is increasingly becoming an echo chamber cesspool of extreme centrism. I was hoping Lemmy would be somehow better with people more prone to discuss. Ho, well
name your top 5 good companies
Irrelevant.
I imagine you're focused on for-profit companies
Maybe just maybe it's because it's not as black or white as you make it seem? Especially talking about a company that did so much for Linux and looking at what their competition is doing....
So it's ok for you to have 10 years old developing a gambling habit and potentially ruining their live, because hey they are pushing Linux in gaming?
Did valve create the gambling games you mention?
Sounds to me like a parenting issue, not a valve issue.
I feel like you're straw-manning here.
I never said it's okay. All I'm saying is that a mega-corporation can simultaneously exploit psychological loopholes for profit (loot boxes) while actively pushing open-source ecosystems (Linux), providing great value to consumers and fighting other pc gaming monopolies (Microsoft). Look at the whole picture.
I agree with you, but I get where the rabid fanboyism is coming from. The lack of competition in tech due to a variety of bullshit reasons (mostly corruption, look what Biden's FTC was trying to do compared to Trump 2's mask-off approach) have people pissed off and angry at the monopolists. Valve just so happens to be the least-bad monopolist in tech, so people like them.
People need to get competition-pilled, so they realize that Valve isn't our savior, and are in fact part of the problem too. They might be considered "good" today, but that's because our standards have never been so low.
Things can be, and should be better.
i can see why you are banned, posting misinformation/disinformation with nothing to back it uo with.
https://youtu.be/v6jhjjVy5Ls
Now I'll wait for you to apologize and and acknowledge you did not have any idea of what you were talking about before commenting. I'll let you throw day, so you can go through the entire series.
it's been like that for years, you act like valve was the masterminded the gambling sites, crazy.
Ho, so because it's been like that, it's ok?
Edit: don't even bother answering, you're a clown.
I get why people like Valve so much (I like some of their services too) but there's too much deification. It's like "oh mighty Gabe!". I get some of it was tongue-in-cheek a bit initially but it seems so many people take it seriously.
They're a company that provides some services I like but the gambling shit is bad especially when you see people on YT talking about how they were lured in when they young and how much money was lost and how many streamers were running scam companies. It's not good.
(I'm guessing the two downvoters love teenagers gambling SO much)
How are they shitty. You can't claim their bad without explaining why, I think you just don't like the fact some people actually respect a company rather then hate on them like the rest.
Already done and don't assume nothing of me.
Why? Are they useful for anything other than proping up surveillance state?
Nope
Like a gopro for sports
That actually sounds badass if there was an option to not connect to anything else and also made by an ethical company.