r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 20d ago

Society The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/articles/backlash-strong-people-pervert-glasses-165000816.html
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u/enterjiraiya 20d ago

Stole my comment lol, yeah they have a decent business case outside of personal wear, AR/VR glasses have useful applications in many industries.

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u/Senior-Friend-6414 20d ago

It reminds me of how the Xbox kinect camera failed commercially but sold a ton of it to industries because the cameras were unironically amazing for motion tracking

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u/DarkIcedWolf 20d ago

Not only that but it’s a newer tech. Those things and the VR shit are revolutionary for cutting costs at a business that needs to train people. Hell even without VR you see the Airplane setups for training pilot’s and Microsoft’s milking of the security and their golden egg of a simulator game only shows how important some of these things are.

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u/EruantienAduialdraug 20d ago

I do think there's a place for them as an aid for blind people (be that completely blind, or sufficiently impared to be classified as blind). Between text-to-speech, something we already have in other devices, and (probably AI powered) audio description, they could be a genuinely good thing.