Meta is not the only smart glasses maker, but its AI glasses are by far the most popular.
The tech giant invested heavily in promoting them, collaborating with celebrity influencer Kylie Jenner on a pair of Ray-Bans featuring an AI assistant that speaks in her voice. The campaign featured billboard ads and a video spot showing Kylie simply enjoying wearing the glasses, without necessarily highlighting their practical features.
Consumers are so freaking gullible, in aggregate…
It amazes me.
I honestly do not see the appeal of this kind of advertising; it makes me actively not want to buy the thing for a plethora of reasons. Why should I care what X celebrity does? How much of that ad is in the product’s cost? Why should I buy without researching thoroughly? Why would I believe the ad, given how many ads lie or fudge? And that’s setting aside everything I know about Meta.
I’m starting to think it’s a neurodivergence or antisocial thing. As apparently I’m a tiny minority, and this sort of marketing works like magic, on millions of people.
Yeah, this unfortunately. You and me both, I don’t like the ai pervert glasses
Well, even if it wasnt perv glasses: why would I buy something because Kylie Jenner hawks it in a commercial?
Or… I dunno. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman?
Who cares?
I don’t care if its the Dalai Lama and actually Jesus selling chocolate; I don’t trust some commercial, as the incentive is peverse. I don’t get why people are so swayed by them. I suppose it buys awareness that something exists… but thats it.
I keep wondering who is the idiot that would by junk like this…
Odd choice of words for “zero demand”
I think you grossly underestimate the number of perverts out there, and severe their cases are.
and pedos. these things are going to be used to creep on children.
Or naive people buying because “cool tech”
Call them by their shameful name: dumb people
There is an old saying “Never hit someone wearing glasses”.
But these days, “If someone is wearing Meta glasses, punch them directly between the eyes”
Get yourself a very powerful pocket laser, and if somebody is wearing one of these, shine it directly into their eyeballs.
There are consequences for being a glasshole.
With all the evil happening around us, your revenge fantasy is on perverts with cameras?
Don’t do that
I get the point, but that will instantly destroy someone’s life and land you justifiably in jail for a very long time
Not talking about potentially blinding an idiot who was wearing them but was not doing any wrong usage.
Hmmm, good point.
Might get you in the news too, like Florida man burns out meet-a-glass-wearers eyeballs with high-powered laser.
Might make others think twice about it.
9 million people (7 million sold just in 2025) are spying and recording others…
And they expect even more next year… Meta is going for 20 million production for 2026… Maybe 30 million if trends keep…
yep. and meta keeps putting face-id tech in the API, but then saying they won’t do it, but then putting it back in.
we’re a couple of steps away from a surveillance state with eyes in the crowds.
Tell police and ICE these glasses will automatically identify them and report their position, then stand back?
ICE is actually a damned good argument in favour of these glasses
Hope europe ban them
I hold back the urge to punch one of my superiors at work when ever I speak to them lately because I realize they wear these.
Id immediately tell that supervisor I don’t consent to being filmed in the workplace. Then straight to hr to say the same. If nothing changes then I’d be off to find a new job wtf.
Thankfully, I don’t know anyone who would want these things
it’s not the people I know I worry about, it’s the creeps.
I don’t even want pervert glasses. I barely even take pictures with my phone.
What I really want is that projection from those O.G. Google glass that projected image straight in your eye. Then I could watch porn all day every day everywhere.
O.G. Google glass that projected image straight in your eye.
sorry to yuck your yum, but that’s not how they worked. it was a tiny, transparent screen on google glass, about 10mm tall and 20mm wide. a waveguide pumped the image at a refractive layer in the bit that sits in front of your eye, allowing you to see the projected image on top of the real world.
Your second description is STILL less perverted than meta glasses.
Now just imagine someone sitting in public staring off into space either with a blank stare and agape mouth, or a creepy smile, and a massive hardon.
No source, no install.
I love this tech, just wish they would make independent of any corporation, just an I/O with standards to connect to your service of choice.
I’d like to see that too, but R&D costs for a product like this are enormous so I doubt it’d happen any time soon.
I have a coworker who has them. Takes some amazing videos of fiber splicing. But just like the vr headset, I just can’t bring myself to buy Meta crap.
I suppose we should never underestimate young males’ propensity to perv on women and girls. Nor should we underestimate the tech bros’ willingness to provide the hardware to do it.
Remember, billionaires have zero empathy, especially for we poors, and really not even for their own kids. They’ll stop for two reasons only, if the pervert glasses stop selling, and/or they’re forced to by laws with real teeth. Small “cost of doing business” fines won’t do it, we all know.
Young males? We have ample proofs that the pervs men subset covers the whole range of ages from teens to old creeps.
idea: qr code face mask that sends them a logoff of their meta account. maybe add a banner that says fuck off or something fun.
I wish it could send a full delete command to their account.
