We need to talk about smart glasses

With any new category for devices, a full set of new questions comes and sometimes complex. SmartphonesFor example, regardless of their worldly appearances, are still bothering us with existential safety. When should we use it? how Should we use it? What happens to us the name of God when We use it, which, the last time you reviewed, is literally all the time?

These are important questions, most of us, even if we do not spend all day around the day, address the complexity in our own way, or set (or reset) social standards for ourselves and other people and we are moving. The only thing is, in my experience, we tend to ask these questions mostly in the past, which means after the cat (or phoneOr Smart watchOr the land destroying gate in the Internet world) outside the proverbial bag. It is easy to look back and say, “This was the time when we should have thought about this,” and when the new smart glasses were placed from Meta with a screen, I knew that time, for smart glasses in particular, was now, like F ** King now.

If you missed, Meta recently revealed Meta Ray-Ban ViewWhich is its first smart glasses with a screen inside the lens. I traveled to Meta headquarters Connect Conference Conference For their experience, and the second that you put on it, it was clear: this will be great. It may seem ridiculous from the outside to issue this advertisement. We have screens everywhere all the time – in our hands, on our wrists, and Sometimes, unfortunately, in our share. Why are smart glasses different? On the one hand, I get this doubt, but the job sometimes is not the problem; It is a shape. And when it comes to smart glasses, there is no other form like that.

Meta’s Ray-Ban is not just another that can be worn. The screen opens with a completely new world of capabilities. With these smart glasses and Meta’s Wild New “The nerve band“One of the wrist who reads electrical signals in your arm and translates them into inputs, you are able to do a lot of things that you usually do on your phone.

If there are any limits between you and the device, the Meta’s Ray-Ban screen closes them to a gap iPhone Air It can slip through. It is incredibly exciting in one way, because I can see useful and enjoyable Meta smart glasses. The ability to pass through a user interface in front of my face by moving my thumbs around a type of computer index made of meat, and sometimes, is already exciting. Although everything works smoothly so far, the door for the sovereignty of smart glasses seems to have been swingd wide. You will need a pair of these smart glasses, whether you know that or not. This will be common, and as a result, it is likely to be a problem.

We may have a strong understanding of the place and when we are supposed to use phones, but what happens when this “phone” concerned becomes completely not concerned, and the ability to use it becomes almost unnoticed to those around us? When I use a smartphone, you can see me pick it up – as you know that there is a device in my hands. When I use the Meta’s Ray-Ban screen, however, there is almost no indicator. Yes, there is a privacy light that tells the external people that a picture or a video is taken, but there is also less than 2 % of the light leakage through the lens, which means that you cannot know when the screen is inside the glasses. Certainly I couldn’t know when I saw others use them. It is the surrounding like any The surrounding computing I have seen so far.

I spoke to Ancel TrackHe is a major analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, which covers the wearable market, and says the privacy framework around technology like this is still in a state of flow.

He said: “We are still very much in the childhood of smart glasses, AI can be worn, and the privacy of AR and the era of arts.” “I think the fact is that the presence of a camera that can be worn on your face will change the things, and there will be places where these things are explicitly banned.”

SAG said that some of these environments are private areas such as bathrooms or tank rooms, but they may extend beyond the places where they may allud off to a naked person. Driving, for example, a major question. The Meta’s Ray-Ban screen has navigation, and while the company tells me that the feature is designed for walking at the present time, it does not prevent anyone from using its smart glasses in the car. Instead, it will provide a warning before doing this by discovering the speed it moves. last Companies like Amazon It seems that he does not think that moving in smart glasses while driving may be a risk at all. Early reports indicate that Amazon is looking forward, making smart glasses specifically designed for their delivery programs for their use in the car.

While organizers such as NHTSA issued warnings about people who use VR headphones while driving (Yes, people were doing it really), According to my research or knowledge, the effect of smart glasses, which is likely to be much more – was not treated – especially if it becomes widespread – to enter the equation while driving. I contacted NHTSA to comment, but I haven’t received a response yet.

Privacy concerns should not only stem from the shape factor either. You should also think about the company that makes the thing you wear on your face all the time and whether it has shown that it is a good host of your data and your privacy. In the dead case? Well, without entering a completely separate DiatryBe, I think He – she It can do A Too better. And other companies that are also in the hot endeavor to the screen glasses, such as Google? Well, they are It was not much better.

Smart glasses maker should not be surprised if, when these things end on people’s faces, they get some shit for that. Google glass, Which appeared in 2013, it may seem a different era, and in many ways (people’s expectations for privacy are almost now), but we have also had to face the idea of ​​wearing the widespread camera for a long time, so who will say things Ownership Really changed? SAG says, while some reverse reaction expects, it may not be like Horeshole.

“I think there will be some reaction, but I don’t think it will be bad like Google Glass,” he says. “Google Glass had a strange look. As you know, it wasn’t really normal, so people really caught the attention of people. I think this made these chapters more successful, is that they are less interfering in nature in terms of appearance.”

I may not be an analyst in this field, but I agree with SAG. I am not sure that there will be a violent reaction at the end of the category as we saw in Google days, and part of me does not want to be there. As I mentioned, I got a chance to use the Meta’s Ray-Ban displays, and the idea that came out of my socks. These are the smart glasses that anyone who is interested in the model factor awaits. What I really want is to be able to live in a world where we can all use them with respect and responsibility, and one where companies that make them the same responsibility and respect. But in my experience, the only way to reach a more respectable and harmonious world is to try everything else first, in which case, the first step may be your next husband from Ray-Bans.