Curf, the counterpou of smart glasses arrives

Intelligent glasses have a moment right now. During the Meta’s Connect conference last month, which is normally reserved for the latest and greater progress in VR and XR equipment, the humble quest was almost forgotten. In his place was not one, not two, but three New pairs of smart glasses, one of which has a display – a first for Meta. This pivot to smart glasses also drags Apple in its wake, with reports that the company deprives an affordable pro vision to focus on its own pair (or couple plural, in fact) of specifications.

The message is clear: smart glasses, as a category, have arrived, and with this great daring promise of computers equipped with a camera dressed in head, is also imminent (inevitable, I would say). Piece A: A new warning from the University of San Francisco. As SFGATE reported, the Bay Area College recently published an alert on the scale of the campus of a man wearing Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses and filming students (women, in particular) while asking them “inappropriate encounters”. These videos have already found their way to Tiktok, Instagram, etc.

I will not name the account, that the University of San Francisco, perhaps somewhat badly killed, called in its warning, but I looked at some of the self-proclaimed “collection lines” because they are always visible on Instagram, and I can confirm that they are indeed inappropriate. Great. If you read this and think: “Okay, then what?” Social media had been a sump since before people were crazy about “Obamacare”. Why is this news? Well, smart glasses, that’s why.

The fact that the University of San Francisco took the trouble to call the path These videos have been recorded (citing the specific name of Meta’s intelligent glasses and everything) speaks volumes, and in many ways, this specificity is absolutely right. As an ascendant as smart glasses (or AI glasses, as Meta call them), there is a chance that many people do not have them yet on their radar. And the thing is that you should know how to identify them. Registering when someone records with his phone is quite obvious (he usually holds it in front of their faces and pointing it), but the smart glasses are discreet. Yes, there is a light at the front of the smart glasses that indicates that someone takes a video or a photo, but you should always know where to look for and what this light means.

What I mean is, because of this lack of knowledge around smart glasses and their discreet inherent, people will do it and clearly already are, push the limits. And this example is not even the worst. Last month, after having been able to try Meta’s Ray-Ban display glasses myself (those with a screen), I proclaimed that “these are the smart glasses you expected”. I want this statement, but also what I said later is “it’s time to talk about smart glasses.” More specifically, it’s time to talk about how and when we use them.

Last month, I spoke to Anshel Sag, a main analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy which covers the portable market, on the potential of another Google Glass’s scale, and even if it says that it does not expect the retreat to be as severe as in 2013 (Ray-Ban Meta Smart Smart, is doing a much better to melt), I am not sure to slide by a little metal. As desensitized to the incursions of privacy that people are today, we simply haven’t had any real reason Be angry with smart glasses. They go up, but they just’re just not that Popular but. If TO DO Become as omnipresent as companies speculate, I suspect that people will have many more examples like the one above which could change their melody. This is how indignation works. People don’t care about things … until they do it.

And of course, this incident at the University of San Francisco will probably not move the needle. But what happens if there is more? And if anyone records You With intelligent glasses without your knowledge, and is your face that is found on the Tiktok account of Douchebag? As much as I want to believe that people can use smart glasses in a responsible manner, I think we all know where it goes, and although the vast majority of people will probably not abuse the ability to record their environmently environment, an unhappy and over-stalled subset could well. If the smart glasses are really the next great thing, I am ready to bet the road to public opinion could become a little jerky, and this little warning on the campus is only the beginning.