Emerging research from University of Sydney draws on analysis of 350 publicly available Instagram videos from around the world, showing a shift to discreet, point-of-view recording that is difficult for bystanders to detect. Smart glasses often provide no clear signal that recording is taking place, limiting a woman’s ability to consent or opt out.
I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.
It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.
But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.
I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(
I was going to say, we barely have open-source cellphone OSes right now, and the most functional ones exist only because a surveillance company gave away their early code in a successful bid for market dominance. Something similar would probably play out for pervert glasses.
I had dreams of video game-style navigation with translations and overlays on the world. Instead, I have to keep an eye out for these things anytime I go into a public restroom.
I’m pretty sad that people have to be perverts and glasses with cameras got such a bad rep.
It is deserved and not surprising, and I’m not trying to defend them, but I was so looking forward to AR glasses with cameras, so I could finally get a working ad-block IRL, which should be easily possible with the tech.
But, that requires a camera. It’s a shame, and I’ll definitely rather continue dealing with ads than support enabling perverts (or Meta, anyway), but it sounded like such a cool use-case.
I hate how there are always groups who have to ruin everything for others :(
Pretty sure the whole wet dream of the companies pouring money into this tech is to be able to put ads in your face all day long.
I was going to say, we barely have open-source cellphone OSes right now, and the most functional ones exist only because a surveillance company gave away their early code in a successful bid for market dominance. Something similar would probably play out for pervert glasses.
Well, the Steam Frame might help us a bit with that.
I had dreams of video game-style navigation with translations and overlays on the world. Instead, I have to keep an eye out for these things anytime I go into a public restroom.