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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by larodi on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:43AM (#41658322)
Was just going to write that there is no way people trust META to become their eyes. Maybe some smaller player. We already greatly distrust f*n mobiles which eavesdrop on everyone's conversation. Considering recent cyberpunk breach I actually expect more people to try to distance themselves from this all. It will probably be top product for telemedicine and teletutoring one day, but it will never be safe in the hands of Meta, no matter how many lammas they put in the loose...

Think about it - sometimes it is much more about trust than technology. Yeah, I know all your chats go back and forth commercial GPTs, but you know half of my GPT interraction is already local inference based and it does similar job, and is OK. So that much about wanting to let s.o. see your naked friends. Their days are numbered and if you see how IT history unfolded - there is always rush to the cloud and away from the mainframe. Its like the breathwork in criya yoga, happens simultaneously in a sense.

From the funny side of things - such wearables open perspective to lot of people talking to themselves being O.k. in society. Perhaps we could only agree to have such visual interface when things get closer to what guys have in Cyberpunk 2077. Honestly I really hope someone developes a genetic enhancement or all children born 2000 suddently become enlightened enough to master telepathy.

I'm much more fascinated by the propspect of personal electronics, and how cheap they have become. I don't want Meta in them for sure, and nobody apt-get installs gcloud or fb as his must have tool.

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by johnmaguire on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:58AM (#41658481)
> We already greatly distrust f*n mobiles which eavesdrop on everyone's conversation

Yet every single person carries one.

Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by s0ss on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:16AM (#41658684)
Often out of necessity. I fantasize about disconnecting, but the reality is more complicated; it would difficult for me and others around me were I to disconnect.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by fsflover on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:42PM (#41661721)
I solved this problem by using a GNU/Linux phone.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by larodi on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:25AM (#41667676)
Perhaps very soon we also start bringing jammers of all sorts when the device is not to be trusted. Not a new concept - every sane person uses firewall and/or VPN.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by fragmede on Friday September 27, 2024 @04:33AM (#41667725)
you should definitely have a firewall but the security advantages of a VPN are questionable, pushed hard by VPN vendors, who are biased due to what they're selling. They're useful for evading DMCA takedowns but that's not about keeping hackers off your machine.
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by tekknik on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:14AM (#41658655)
and yet many people want to get rid of them and move back to a simpler time when people weren’t connected 24/7
Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses by pkphilip on Thursday September 26, 2024 @12:26PM (#41660324)
I carry mobile phones only out of compulsion. I often wish for the time when we didn't have this leash around our neck constantly. I would drop this and go back to landlines if I could