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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by short_sells_poo on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:00AM (#41657904)
I think the hardware and idea is great. But I simply can't ignore the fact that it is made by Facebook, which is basically the posterchild for modern addiction optimizer adtech business.

The last company I'd want to put right in front of my eyeballs for any extended periods of time is Facebook.

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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by zer0zzz on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:41PM (#41660512)
This is the only comment on here about fb that makes sense. Meta is fully capable and willing to make products that protect user privacy, and they have in the form of WhatsApp and others. But what they definitely aren’t capable of is building things you aren’t addicted to use in order to generate them revenue constantly.

Maybe as they transition to hardware they’ll spend more time making their products worthy of chronic upgrades rather than chronic addictive usage.

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