Hundreds of women were reportedly filmed with Meta smart glasses, prompting Hans Anders to halt sales in two countries. Read what privacy concerns reveal
There are few legitimate use cases for smart glasses with cameras tho - it’s very helpful for visually impaired people. Really sad too see such things overshadowed by sea of perverts.
Seriously. I’m working as a substitute teacher right now. It would be amazing if I could pop on a pair of smart glasses and have some limited augmented reality capabilities. I would love to look across a classroom and see the names of all the students floating about their head. Maybe with some key notes (like IEP restrictions, notes from the teacher, etc.)
But I’ve never seen this actually implemented by any of the companies pushing these.
When I’d see that stuff in scifi years ago I thought it was cool, but also wondered how secure it actually would be to have electronics that is capable of seeing what you see all the time.
And of course that answered in SciFi with that stuff getting hacked from time to time.
So this would work with facial recognition and sharing the complete school database with the manufacturer, in this case meta, including attendance and any learning disabilities?
It does sound convenient but the privacy trade-off is never worth it imo. None of these companies seem to be developing something that runs locally, they’re all about being “connected”.
See and I go the other way. Assuming everything is up front this would be amazing for a teacher based on how OP explained it.
That said, to your point, none of this would even be a discussion if we paid teachers properly and staffed schools adequately.
We are moaning about a technical solution to a problem that already has a solution that has been solved for decades but collectively we choose to ignore that solution because education is a cost centre.
I’ll leave the classic Matt Damon bitching about underpaid teachers.
I mean, those are a thing that can describe one’s surroundings and objects around them or assist in handling certain objects. And for people with impaired hearing - subtitles for what people around say can be displayed.
These are life changing technologies for some disabled people, but alas - we’ve got the least privacy-concerned company to spearhead the progress in this regard.
Well, on the bright side, that sounds like something that could be preserved into a device that makes it a lot more obvious when it’s working, or without the recording features at all. And hopefully we get stuff like that and soon!
On the flip side with this being a device that is more in the realm of persistent audio and visual recording I can’t help but think this type of wearable will lead to every interaction being recorded and transcribed. And sounds like some suped Big Brother network if it becomes ubiquitous of every single person being a camera.
These never needed to exist
There are few legitimate use cases for smart glasses with cameras tho - it’s very helpful for visually impaired people. Really sad too see such things overshadowed by sea of perverts.
That’s technology as a whole.
Seriously. I’m working as a substitute teacher right now. It would be amazing if I could pop on a pair of smart glasses and have some limited augmented reality capabilities. I would love to look across a classroom and see the names of all the students floating about their head. Maybe with some key notes (like IEP restrictions, notes from the teacher, etc.)
But I’ve never seen this actually implemented by any of the companies pushing these.
When I’d see that stuff in scifi years ago I thought it was cool, but also wondered how secure it actually would be to have electronics that is capable of seeing what you see all the time.
And of course that answered in SciFi with that stuff getting hacked from time to time.
So this would work with facial recognition and sharing the complete school database with the manufacturer, in this case meta, including attendance and any learning disabilities?
It does sound convenient but the privacy trade-off is never worth it imo. None of these companies seem to be developing something that runs locally, they’re all about being “connected”.
See and I go the other way. Assuming everything is up front this would be amazing for a teacher based on how OP explained it.
That said, to your point, none of this would even be a discussion if we paid teachers properly and staffed schools adequately.
We are moaning about a technical solution to a problem that already has a solution that has been solved for decades but collectively we choose to ignore that solution because education is a cost centre.
I’ll leave the classic Matt Damon bitching about underpaid teachers.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nvVYPZpjzno
Did they actually launch them with helpful technology in that vein? That is news to me!
I mean, those are a thing that can describe one’s surroundings and objects around them or assist in handling certain objects. And for people with impaired hearing - subtitles for what people around say can be displayed.
These are life changing technologies for some disabled people, but alas - we’ve got the least privacy-concerned company to spearhead the progress in this regard.
Well, on the bright side, that sounds like something that could be preserved into a device that makes it a lot more obvious when it’s working, or without the recording features at all. And hopefully we get stuff like that and soon!
On the flip side with this being a device that is more in the realm of persistent audio and visual recording I can’t help but think this type of wearable will lead to every interaction being recorded and transcribed. And sounds like some suped Big Brother network if it becomes ubiquitous of every single person being a camera.