No doubt Apple has an integration advantage, but what’s to integrate? If these glasses simply do video/photo/audio recording and audio playback, it doesn’t do anything an iPhone (maybe with AirPods) can’t already do. It’s going to be hard to convince even Apple fans to spend money on that *and* be required to wear these glasses all day long on the off-chance they need to do this. There will be an AI angle to this, I’m sure, in which Siri could do stuff based on what the glasses see/hear, but Siri itself is still so stupid and won’t be any smarter until 2026, so I doubt it’ll also do things with the glasses in that same timeframe.
Like others, I am trying to discern a use for this kind of product. Evaluating what you use/need tech for is a very personal choice, but I'm at something of a loss on this one. YYMV, and if you're excited about this, great. And time will tell what eventually is offered.
The only thing I can come up with is to comment that I often miss step of the moment snapshots. Most (if not nearly all) of my photos are not "photography" but things I need to capture quickly. My iPhone cameras are indeed great, but I don't always have it in my hand or even nearby. And it does take me upwards of 10s to get it ready to shoot. I've often pondered how useful a modest camera on the top of the case of my Apple Watch (or in the band?) would be.
Apple might want to scrap the display-less glasses and jump to a full AR version. Meta just released this today for $799 and initial previews are overwhelmingly positive
Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses launch for $799 https://9to5google.com/2025/09/17/meta-ray-ban-display-smart-glasses-price/
Tech coverage gonna tech. I'm still trying to digest these things, but something is off. I don't think we want what is essentially a full smartphone interface in giant ugly glasses. When Apple makes these, I expect they'll be designed in a way that you'd never know they were tech beyond the Apple design touch. In any case, they won't be ugly.
Interface wise, Meta's implementation here seems too fiddly. I'm sure swipes and taps will carry over with visionOS on Apple glasses, but I think Meta is trying to do too much to "replace" the smartphone. But they have to try to, because they don't have a smartphone.
Apple, instead, will take the better route and augment the iPhone with its glasses. They'll get out of the way, where Meta's feel more intrusive. Maybe that's it -- Meta Display isn't really augmenting reality, it's interrupting it, which serves business model.
Super Creepy Glasses is what all Smart Glasses has become lately due to people filming others and posting them online in secret. It would had been perfect before Instagram and TikTok came out.
I’m 98% sure that Apple will give you no way to download videos off this.
The thing is… it WILL be much more massive issue after Apple release them.
Currently it’s largely slept on that glasses can record video much more secretly than a phone. It is a big deal, but it just doesn’t rise to the general media.
Once Apple is in the hand-wringing headlines, the issue will be EVERYWHERE all at once.
This pattern has repeated over and over again for the past 25y.
Apple knows this. It certainly knows that releasing a product that can surreptitiously film in a private place will be used inappropriately.
And that scandal will be run right up the flagpole from facebook gramma shares to evening news to governmental oversight committees.
Personally I think it’s a GOOD thing. Because screw the idea of being recorded by anybody with glasses on. It’s bad enough how people can do it now (even the more surreptitious ways than sneaking with a phone).
So I’m not convinced that Apple will EVER allow you to view/share the recordings you take with a pair of glasses.
Because almost immediately everybody wearing them in public (even in ‘fair’ spaces to film) would be the creepo who’s filming them.
Even a big bright red light can be covered.
Which is a bit of a shame. It would be useful and fun to get POV video of certain things in my life (sports, pets, dashcam/bodycam for random ‘nobody will believe that just happened’ events, etc.
I just don’t see how society will allow it.
And I certainly don’t think our society would be better served by feeling MORE watched in every day life. Look at how it has affected the youngest generations who’ve grown up conscious that their every move could be clipped and shared and make them look awful or amazing.
When I think about my day, I just can't understand how a product like this really helps me. I can understand specific use cases. Travel, for example. Having glasses with an AR display that performs live translation would be fantastic. But in every day life? Without an AR display?
Whenever you want to know something about what you see, you can ask the chatbot. And you can tell it to add something related to your reminders or calendar, or send a message to someone, or whatever. Of course you can also do all these things with a smartphone, but smart glasses are hands-free, and you don’t have to keep looking at your smartphone. Without the camera function, AirPods could do the same job. The camera adds functions with visual input in addition to auditory input.
I wouldn’t have much use for this myself, but I can see how other people would find it convenient.
While I can see the use cases you outlined, I'm not sure how many people really care about any of that stuff, especially without an AR screen. Are people really going to sit there and listen to the AI tell them about what they're seeing? I feel like the novelty will wear off VERY FAST. I'm also not sure people want to compose messages, especially lengthy ones, without being able to see them before sending. How many calendar events do people add every day?
While all of these use cases make sense on some level, in reality I don't see any of these being reasons to wear glasses all day. Nothing about what you describe sounds exciting or "must have" to me. I still wouldn't be interested in a product like this even if it had an AR display, but I can very clearly see how a display would open up all kinds of more broadly appealing use cases. But no display? I just don't see the point.
I mean, the Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses sell reasonably well, 7 million units last year in the US, and the current version has been on the market since 2023 (the first one since 2021). Meta postponed the international release planned for this year due to unprecedented demand in the US, and they are planning to scale up production to 30 million units per year.
Absolutely, cameras on wearables are too much of a privacy concern. It doesn't even matter how private and secure Apple makes theirs--if society accepts wearable cameras at all, it will enable people who have no regard for privacy to use creepy wearable cameras under the radar.
If people want to film POV, they should use a dedicated conspicuous device like a GoPro. Leave cameras off everyday wearables.
Given the polarization of opinions on the prominent cultural and political issues of our time, camera equipped smart glasses probably will be accepted and rejected by nearly equal proportions of the population. That would be far too many spy glasses for my taste, leaving me and the like-minded defenseless. I am afraid I would eventually have to take a closer look at this guide for signal jamming … https://medium.com/aardvark-infinity/shut-them-up-the-ultimate-guide-to-smartphone-signal-jamming-for-tactical-minds-only-ee31c5682780
That’s absurdly long to wait to copy a product that’s been on the shelves for years… and I doubt they’ll be radically better… should definitely have displays by then…
I too am shocked Apple, for the very first time in its entire history, would release into a product category years after others have come to market first in it. 🙂↕️
I remember a time when apple would disappear if they didn't release a smart watch within 60 days... (Chowdhry quote, for those young enough to wonder what the hell I'm talking about).
I don't understand this product. Without an AR display, what's the point? Filming people without their consent? I have no clue why anyone would buy a product like this or how they'd find it useful.
100%. And not even AirPods. It's not like the glasses will sit in your ears or be noise cancelling. Even with an AR display, I don't see much use personally for a product like this, but no AR display? What is the point?!?!?!
That's very true, but that's not really the point. Whether legal or not, it's still gross and weird and I'm not sure why anyone would want to covertly record their surroundings. It's creepy and only appeals to creeps. What's the legitimate use case for recording people in public all the time?
I do it all the time when I'm driving. I have cameras in my car in case of an accident. If I also drive by something funny or weird, I can go back and look at my old video.
Situationally, it's very odd.
Car cameras have become very normal. When I pick my kids up from school, I park and wait for them, my car is recording dozens of other kids coming out of the school. Nobody thinks anything of it. But if I did the same by holding up my iPhone and recording everything, someone would call the cops on me as a creep.
Similarly, I have cameras outside my home monitoring my front yard and the cars in my driveway. It's normal. It's not normal if I stood out there with my iPhone recording 24/7.
so the new 'normal' is everyone walking around with a dashcam on their nose because, to follow your logic, standing in someone's face filming them is just a routine security precaution?
It would be useful in environments like trade shows if you could get a heads-up display of information from people's LinkedIn, company profile pages, etc. to know who you're talking to, what their company is, and so on as soon as you meet. I'm not saying that justifies the development costs of the product, or the social effects of using them elsewhere, but it's not completely useless tech.
It would be a useful addition to body cams too, because it follows where the wearer is facing (though I'd want to use a fisheye lens for maximum context)
We have to welcome it. Society is no longer built on trust at all, but on direct evidence. I'd love the glasses to always be on and recording so I have a body cam at all times so when some nut or scum or grifter tries to pull something I have the evidence to show I was justified in my reaction.
well there's an argument to be had about merits of say CCTV in terms of public safety or some such, provided safeguards are adequate, and to some extent you have privacy-focused choices online if you're really bothered, but when potentially everyone around you is a vigilante peeping Tom, it's a bit much no matter what PR spiel they'll wheel out.
The UK data watchdog is writing to Meta following a "concerning" report claiming outsourced workers were able to view sensitive content filmed by the company's AI smart glasses. Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers.
It doesn’t really matter if you 😡 law is law but the only exception is the bathroom or locker room or somewhere considered private. If you’re out outside or you’re at work it’s considered public space it has to be public space.
Design criterion #1: make them not-creepy. Can Apple pull that off? Nobody has so far.
BTW, Ray-Ban is one of the many brands owned or made exclusively by EssilorLuxottica. Their near-monopoly in this market is one of the reasons frames are so freaking expensive. So no surprise Apple prefers to design and manufacture their own frames. They gain some advantage just from bypassing EssilorLuxottica.
The ONLY way I can see to avoid the creepiness is if you can never make/view/share recordings.
Even a giant red recording light would be easy to cover.
Inevitably there would be creepy AF videos come out from these, and Apples name on it wool magnify it far more than we see today.
This pattern of extra attention when Apple does it is a familiar one, but in this case would be good to raise more attention than we currently pay to these glasses.
That would mean the devices would be only for active response to the surroundings, which is a bit odd.
It is easy to imagine an individual's vision anomalies being programmed in to glasses, then the glasses correcting for those individual anomalies (think about how noise control works in AirPods, for instance). It could be much better than building fixed lenses like today's glasses do. E.g. instead of simplistic bifocals or trifocals, smart glasses could seamlessly correct for where the user is looking.
Such glasses (we are imagining here) might autocorrect for specific vision issues on the fly, or even on command: e.g. "Siri, magnify to 6x focused to 10 inches" or "Siri, go to movie viewing mode," or "Siri, magnify to 10x focused on bird in far distance," or "Siri, maintain brightness at daylight levels as dusk approaches."
Obviously coping with computing latency would be a huge issue.
You either order lenses at point of purchase, from a local optometrist, or from one of a zillion online optical shops. Apple already does this for Vision Pro and there are lots of companies marking Rx lenses for the Meta glasses already.
Still not really practical because I need vision correction. For instance, I use really high end progressives due to presbyopia and astigmatism. So whatever these glasses cost, plus ~$400 for an extra pair of lenses, because my vision insurance only covers (part of) one set of glasses. And a lot more complicated if they don't get the lenses right.
I still need a set of glasses without cameras because there are places I should not be carrying a camera around (locker rooms) and places where cameras are forbidden (courthouses, for instance).
But "pass through" is not the same as "see through".
What you're talking about is "pass through" - for this to work, the user would have to wear goggles, not glasses. The device needs to a camera and then a screen in front of your eyes to process and adjust the image captured by the camera. The screen in front of your eyes would be opaque, because it if was transparent, you would see both the corrected image and the uncorrected image at the same time, which would compound the problem you're trying to solve, rather than solving it.
And, realistically, while people are happy to wear glasses in day-to-day public life, very few people wear goggles/headsets in those situations.
I'm still waiting for someone to enlighten me on what purpose a product like this serves. Even with an AR display, I don't get it. Seems like a product for screen addicts with ultimately very little utility over what already exists. Also seems like a product for people who want the machine to spoon-feed them everything. I don't understand the appeal and, like you, have no interest in buying this crap.
It's sad. I agree with you, and yet, it's still a shame.
If someone had told me, growing up in the 80s, that there would be a pair of glasses that could… - instantly translate foreign language in voices and text, - play whatever song you want just for the asking, - guide you with directions on a walk, hike, or bike ride, - let you call police just by asking, and the police can see what you see, and they know where you are, - identify whatever it is you're looking at, no matter how esoteric, and - take a picture or video of anything you're looking at …I'd have thought that as an unbelievable unfettered good, science-fiction brought to life for the betterment of humanity.
Could it be that the technology itself isn't creepy, but that it's society and many people who've gotten creepy? That if there is any way to abuse technology, that it happens en-masse, for profit?
Yeah, we already have apple watch and for those who like music there are AirPods... Why spend another $500 on something that won't make something different... Unless you are a creep and want to record people but still...
1000% agree. I'd argue that society has always had a creep element, but certain technology has really empowered creeps in recent decades. Worse still, some of these technologies have actually changed our behaviors and our values. What was once viewed as creepy is now seen as normal by many people.
The entire planet is moving towards more surveillance, more control, not more freedom, and technology is enabling all of it. Products like AR glasses make me think of the Black Mirror episode where everything one sees and hears is recorded, where customs officials have you rewind your holiday memories so AI can quickly analyze everything you did and everyone you met, where you get stuck in your old memories because the tech enables you.
I used to believe in an inherent positivity to technology. All of this stuff seemed so exciting and empowering in the early days, but now it's starting to feel very dark. Social media has fundamentally reprogrammed society. I'm honestly glad I'm aging out and don't have kids.
I can’t agree more and I would be highly disappointed if truely Apple was releasing a MetaRayban like product and knowing that it was Tim last priority apparently makes me think it was time for him to step down … as for simple Xreal type of glasses with AR/VR, it is a screen replacement anywhere you are for immersive experience for movies, games, documentaries, productivity when you need avoiding the TV, some bulky monitors in your room or when you don’t have access to one … I am waiting impatiently for this and this only …
If you want to be that extremely cynical, wait till you realize spatial computing lenses exist.
There’s also an argument drones that can be maliciously used to be aerial paparazzi thousands of feet above people with far higher definition cameras than be considered more “creepier”.
I trust that. This article gives me hope. https://medium.com/aardvark-infinity/shut-them-up-the-ultimate-guide-to-smartphone-signal-jamming-for-tactical-minds-only-ee31c5682780
How many health device do we need ? Seriously we don’t need this … We need glasses to do some work and watch movies play games etc like Xreal … Thank you …
Premise of Apple 2027 holiday add: A family gathers around a Christmas tree and a blind mother or father puts on Apple smart glasses as their children open presents. Apple Intelligence describes the utter joy on their faces, which the parent has never experienced before. Designed to make you cry.
Meta glasses are the hot new "game changing" tech in the blindness community. There are apps that provide remote visual assistance, augmented with AI. People use them for things like buying groceries in big stores like Walmart, or getting from their plane to baggage claim without having to ask airport staff for help.
I haven't used any of the apps with smart glasses, just with my iPhone camera. Having it hands free would take it to another level. I read a review yesterday of one of the remote assistance apps that called it the biggest thing to come along since computers were made to talk back in the 80s.
So yeah, I might jump on that when Apple's take on smart glasses comes out.
meta ray bans are the most creepy product used by actual disgusting people.
I hope apple is ready to be part of the endless lawsuits that will come from these.
The creepiest part with meta is anytime someone says hey meta start recording the videos can be viewed by meta and real humans, already scandals surrounding videos being viewed that are 100% not for public viewing.
Any cameras even obvious ones need to be flagged as unacceptable in society.
Many of you laser focused on creeps and "filming without consent". No one cares about YOU. Creeps are using smartphones too. Everyday I am on the beach, it's sunny all year round. I am playing beach sports. I need sunglasses, I am listening to music, sometimes I am making POV videos or sunset videos. Unlike smartphone cameras or real deal cameras there is no zoom on my Ray Ban Metas or Oakley Meta Vanguards.
I use meta glasses... * ducks flying chairs, beer bottles, etc * for turn-by turn navigation when cycling. For this, they are outstanding. Unlike airpods you retain full auditory awareness of your surroundings. And you can request information hands-free. Just needs better integration with maps.
I’m open to the idea they could have medical applications, but first the category has to be wrenched back from the perverts/creeps/socially maladjusted weirdos. Early efforts in the category did a lot of damage to public perception.
Right now wearing them is a massive red flag to everyone around you. It’s going to take work to rebuild consumer trust.
They’re usually not banned in concerts and clubs because they actually enable less visual noise from stages with their users being more active, present, and hands free to buy their concessions.
They also have very handy features to get things done faster and easier such as live captions to hear what significant others say and notifications from them without interrupting someone’s groove.
They’re also more obvious with their recording indicators that someone is recording unlike phones.
With phones, when you target and monitor, your posture and/or positioning of hands and arms is quite obvious. Not so with glasses, especially when you defeat the recording indicators. https://bytetrending.com/2025/10/24/ray-ban-hack-disabling-the-recording-light/
I don't see the use case for these in terms of mass appeal. AirPods are earphones and everyone listens to music. Apple Watch was able to succeed off the health/fitness angle and it's a watch. These glasses don't seem to have appeal outside of people who make content on social media. I just don't see the average person having a good use case for them. Unless Apple is planning for them to just be a niche product.
These glasses don't seem to have appeal outside of people who make content on social media. I just don't see the average person having a good use case for them. Unless Apple is planning for them to just be a niche product.
1. When walking in New York City, London, Paris, etc. you can be notified of restaurants that are empty vs. full, directions to the nearest subway station and time of the next trains to your route. 2. When walking in Disney World, Universal, etc. you can be notified of wait times to rides around you, times for the next parade or show, and directions to get to the attraction you want. 3. When walking, hiking or biking trails you can be given directions or notifications like 'route ends in 10 minutes' without checking your phone or watch. 4. Your glasses could notice friends or contacts you're walking by - or are near. And notify you - 'Your friend Jennifer is checking you out across the street' 5. Your glasses could watch out for and alert you to creepy people around you who AI thinks might rob or attack you. If this becomes a well made commercial, these could sell like hot cakes.
These are indeed use cases, no doubt. But none of them — unless someone has an applicable impairment — fills an essential need that existing technology cannot. The abuse potential of smart glasses is far greater than their significant quality-of-life improvement potential.
use case #3 - When I hike, walk, run, or bike trails, I do that to get away from emails, texts, notifications, reminders, etc. I want nothing to distract me from the pleasure of nature and motion. Yes, I also have goals with my outdoor exercising. But I track it with the AppleWatch only for post-activity review.
Especially for the things I enjoy in life, I do not need to and do not want to be managed or interrupted (i.e. 'route ends in 10 minutes') by hand-held or even hands-free tech — it’s hands-off for both.
I can’t think of anything more embarrassing than listening to someone in front of me - “Mmhhmm, yeah, mmm, ohh” - knowing full well that THEY know my glasses are focused on them.
And yet another new product that Apple are struggling to get to market. When are we going to talk about the story behind the story. Something is seriously wrong.
It is no longer a matter of imagination, it’s real. Unfortunately, smart glasses have already been used to record individuals surreptitiously and subsequently posting the footage on social media without consent and the social media company refusing or taking an unduly long time to remove it. The recording indicator on Meta glasses can be disabled. https://bytetrending.com/2025/10/24/ray-ban-hack-disabling-the-recording-light/
Apple glasses, of course, will prevent such abuse.
It may seem so but I am aware of the potential for beneficial uses and said so in an earlier post in this thread. I did not detail the benefits because smart phones already offer them. The problem is that smart glasses companies are more concerned with profits than limiting privacy intrusion abuse. Apple would have to solve it in order to retain credibility as an advocate of privacy protection.
I just need them to be a great heads up display. Give me directions, my notifications. I want a little popup when someone starts taking to me that tells me who they are and my past interactions with them. Would be even better if it had some type of good AI that would put up information on things going on. Imagine the old MTV video pop-up show but with good stuff you need in your life. Walk into a room, for example, and the little thing pops up that points to your AirPods with a note to remind you to put them in your pocket or to charge them.
It’s true there’s cameras all over the place in 2026.
But public perception of smart glasses is very negative. Early adopter creeps and shoddy devices poisoned the well. If Apple tries now they have to answer for a tremendous amount of negative baggage.
It’d be kind of like the first person to pitch building a nuclear power plant after Chernobyl. A good idea. But through no fault of their own, they’d have some explaining to do.
Imagine the media feeding frenzy around the first person to do something creepy with the new Apple Glasses.
I still think this is the creepiest tech product segment. I get why in the future AR glasses that look normal but have computer-like functionality will be useful. I don’t get why this is useful, except that Apple is subsidizing their R&D by selling an unfinished product until they can sufficiently minimize the other tech needed to make it more useful.
This is the opposite of how Steve Jobs worked. The iPad was in the lab going back to around 03 or 04? When Microsoft was promoting bulky tablets with horrible touch hardware and software and short battery life. Apple waited patiently and then took over the market. They did that with so many things, and now they just stopped doing that with things like Vision Pro which aren’t ready for mass adoption because of all the drawbacks. All because the law of large numbers came for their stock.
Without any drama: Camera glasses will create legal problems in many countries. Even if people are not filming they will be suspected of constantly doing so. Imagine public restrooms and somebody wearing such a device... Maybe this is the future but we are not there yet.
Florida is a two party consent state for video (with audio) without someone’s knowledge when in a private environment. The expectation of privacy does not exist in public.
That might be valid for Florida but in many other countries it does exist and privacy is legally guaranteed. Wearing these video-glasses you might be violating the law on a high level. Say in big European countries the point of filming in public is that other individuals are NOT identified but just anonymous parts of the scenery. Electronic companies cannot expect to get a global red carpet treatment legally for whatever they like to sell. And their customers might be the ones to end up in hot water. Remember google street view and the debates about it like cars with high cameras peeping over fences into peoples gardens?
Meta Glasses are beginning to be banned at events like Comic Cons. You won't be able to get that one-on-one, walk up video with that star you wanted. So, when they start becoming prohibited at events, the Smart Glasses lose their much of their appeal.
Apple was apparently going to get around this by using lidar only on the glasses. Not sure how well that would work. Personally I think if the ar glasses allowed a camera, but it couldn’t record would be a way around that. Not sure how popular that would be though. Bizarrely the only thing I DON’T want from ar glasses is the ability to take a photo
I’m a sucker for new product categories, I’d definitely try them on and see.
I love unique frames, so I doubt I’d want to wear these as my main glasses. Someone said this earlier, but I also miss wearing my old watches before the Apple Watch. But the AW is so great that I’m always wearing it. A few times, I’ve had the AW on my left wrist and an old watch on my right wrist.
I agree that taking photos and recording videos from glasses is creepy. I’d hate to be in a corporate meeting and have everything I say recorded, it makes me fear “work environment” claims. Also, with cancel culture, it would be so easy for someone to lose their job/business if something was posted out of context and went viral. However, if I’m at my daughter’s piano recital, I’d sure like to record it without holding my iPhone up. How could Apple discern those things, probably impossible.
Also, it took a few versions of Apple Watch before it wasn’t tethered to iPhone. Could this ship untethered in version 1.0? These don’t need a battery pack, do they? Can’t they use the technology for the small battery inside the Apple Watch to keep it stand-alone?
I agree with previous posts…if these are just glasses with cameras, microphones, headphones, is that enough?
But, I like to think of the positives. Hack up my comments!
Will they require Gemini to work too?
ReplyDeleteNo doubt Apple has an integration advantage, but what’s to integrate? If these glasses simply do video/photo/audio recording and audio playback, it doesn’t do anything an iPhone (maybe with AirPods) can’t already do. It’s going to be hard to convince even Apple fans to spend money on that *and* be required to wear these glasses all day long on the off-chance they need to do this.
ReplyDeleteThere will be an AI angle to this, I’m sure, in which Siri could do stuff based on what the glasses see/hear, but Siri itself is still so stupid and won’t be any smarter until 2026, so I doubt it’ll also do things with the glasses in that same timeframe.
Like others, I am trying to discern a use for this kind of product. Evaluating what you use/need tech for is a very personal choice, but I'm at something of a loss on this one. YYMV, and if you're excited about this, great. And time will tell what eventually is offered.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I can come up with is to comment that I often miss step of the moment snapshots. Most (if not nearly all) of my photos are not "photography" but things I need to capture quickly. My iPhone cameras are indeed great, but I don't always have it in my hand or even nearby. And it does take me upwards of 10s to get it ready to shoot. I've often pondered how useful a modest camera on the top of the case of my Apple Watch (or in the band?) would be.
Eh what’s the point- you really want to have these on in every selfie?
ReplyDeleteApple might want to scrap the display-less glasses and jump to a full AR version. Meta just released this today for $799 and initial previews are overwhelmingly positive
ReplyDeleteMeta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses launch for $799
https://9to5google.com/2025/09/17/meta-ray-ban-display-smart-glasses-price/
Tech coverage gonna tech. I'm still trying to digest these things, but something is off. I don't think we want what is essentially a full smartphone interface in giant ugly glasses. When Apple makes these, I expect they'll be designed in a way that you'd never know they were tech beyond the Apple design touch. In any case, they won't be ugly.
DeleteInterface wise, Meta's implementation here seems too fiddly. I'm sure swipes and taps will carry over with visionOS on Apple glasses, but I think Meta is trying to do too much to "replace" the smartphone. But they have to try to, because they don't have a smartphone.
Apple, instead, will take the better route and augment the iPhone with its glasses. They'll get out of the way, where Meta's feel more intrusive. Maybe that's it -- Meta Display isn't really augmenting reality, it's interrupting it, which serves business model.
Apple doesn't have that problem.
Super Creepy Glasses is what all Smart Glasses has become lately due to people filming others and posting them online in secret. It would had been perfect before Instagram and TikTok came out.
ReplyDeleteI’m 98% sure that Apple will give you no way to download videos off this.
DeleteThe thing is… it WILL be much more massive issue after Apple release them.
Currently it’s largely slept on that glasses can record video much more secretly than a phone. It is a big deal, but it just doesn’t rise to the general media.
Once Apple is in the hand-wringing headlines, the issue will be EVERYWHERE all at once.
This pattern has repeated over and over again for the past 25y.
Apple knows this. It certainly knows that releasing a product that can surreptitiously film in a private place will be used inappropriately.
And that scandal will be run right up the flagpole from facebook gramma shares to evening news to governmental oversight committees.
Personally I think it’s a GOOD thing. Because screw the idea of being recorded by anybody with glasses on. It’s bad enough how people can do it now (even the more surreptitious ways than sneaking with a phone).
So I’m not convinced that Apple will EVER allow you to view/share the recordings you take with a pair of glasses.
Because almost immediately everybody wearing them in public (even in ‘fair’ spaces to film) would be the creepo who’s filming them.
Even a big bright red light can be covered.
Which is a bit of a shame. It would be useful and fun to get POV video of certain things in my life (sports, pets, dashcam/bodycam for random ‘nobody will believe that just happened’ events, etc.
I just don’t see how society will allow it.
And I certainly don’t think our society would be better served by feeling MORE watched in every day life. Look at how it has affected the youngest generations who’ve grown up conscious that their every move could be clipped and shared and make them look awful or amazing.
Then what are the recordings for if they can't be viewed or shared? That doesn't make any sense.
DeleteSame use cases as "visual intelligence".
DeleteFair point.
DeleteWhen I think about my day, I just can't understand how a product like this really helps me. I can understand specific use cases. Travel, for example. Having glasses with an AR display that performs live translation would be fantastic. But in every day life? Without an AR display?
Whenever you want to know something about what you see, you can ask the chatbot. And you can tell it to add something related to your reminders or calendar, or send a message to someone, or whatever. Of course you can also do all these things with a smartphone, but smart glasses are hands-free, and you don’t have to keep looking at your smartphone. Without the camera function, AirPods could do the same job. The camera adds functions with visual input in addition to auditory input.
DeleteI wouldn’t have much use for this myself, but I can see how other people would find it convenient.
While I can see the use cases you outlined, I'm not sure how many people really care about any of that stuff, especially without an AR screen. Are people really going to sit there and listen to the AI tell them about what they're seeing? I feel like the novelty will wear off VERY FAST. I'm also not sure people want to compose messages, especially lengthy ones, without being able to see them before sending. How many calendar events do people add every day?
DeleteWhile all of these use cases make sense on some level, in reality I don't see any of these being reasons to wear glasses all day. Nothing about what you describe sounds exciting or "must have" to me. I still wouldn't be interested in a product like this even if it had an AR display, but I can very clearly see how a display would open up all kinds of more broadly appealing use cases. But no display? I just don't see the point.
I also looked into this for sports etc. but the price is wild and to give money to Meta is just a big no
DeleteI mean, the Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses sell reasonably well, 7 million units last year in the US, and the current version has been on the market since 2023 (the first one since 2021). Meta postponed the international release planned for this year due to unprecedented demand in the US, and they are planning to scale up production to 30 million units per year.
Delete99.9% of what’s recorded by the always-on cameras in the Meta Glasses or the AVP is not saved as a clip.
DeleteNot unlike your phone filming,..whats the difference? The creep factor comes from the person, NOT device.
DeleteSo filming people in secret is ok as long as you view it offline? 🤔
DeleteAbsolutely, cameras on wearables are too much of a privacy concern. It doesn't even matter how private and secure Apple makes theirs--if society accepts wearable cameras at all, it will enable people who have no regard for privacy to use creepy wearable cameras under the radar.
DeleteIf people want to film POV, they should use a dedicated conspicuous device like a GoPro. Leave cameras off everyday wearables.
Given the polarization of opinions on the prominent cultural and political issues of our time, camera equipped smart glasses probably will be accepted and rejected by nearly equal proportions of the population. That would be far too many spy glasses for my taste, leaving me and the like-minded defenseless. I am afraid I would eventually have to take a closer look at this guide for signal jamming …
Deletehttps://medium.com/aardvark-infinity/shut-them-up-the-ultimate-guide-to-smartphone-signal-jamming-for-tactical-minds-only-ee31c5682780
I am not so sure demand here is the only reason for postponing international release.
DeleteI predict people are going to get their butts kicked.
ReplyDeleteI can understand why.
If i remember correctly, years ago it was rumoured that apple was developing AR glasses until they decided to pivot to VR instead.
ReplyDeleteI hope under new leadership, apple can learn walk and chew gum at the same time.
That’s absurdly long to wait to copy a product that’s been on the shelves for years… and I doubt they’ll be radically better… should definitely have displays by then…
ReplyDeleteI too am shocked Apple, for the very first time in its entire history, would release into a product category years after others have come to market first in it. 🙂↕️
DeleteApple 🍎 always super late ⏰ to the party. They barely coming out with a foldable phone 📱
DeleteI remember a time when apple would disappear if they didn't release a smart watch within 60 days... (Chowdhry quote, for those young enough to wonder what the hell I'm talking about).
DeleteLike the AirTags, the glasses will beep loudly when recording.
DeleteWhen exactly we have AR Glass hopefully 3 next year
ReplyDeleteI don't understand this product. Without an AR display, what's the point? Filming people without their consent? I have no clue why anyone would buy a product like this or how they'd find it useful.
ReplyDeleteask Zuck, he knows ...
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Came here to say the same. Sunglasses and a pair of AirPods; I basically have the product already.
Delete100%. And not even AirPods. It's not like the glasses will sit in your ears or be noise cancelling. Even with an AR display, I don't see much use personally for a product like this, but no AR display? What is the point?!?!?!
DeleteDepending on where you are, you don’t need their consent
DeleteThat's very true, but that's not really the point. Whether legal or not, it's still gross and weird and I'm not sure why anyone would want to covertly record their surroundings. It's creepy and only appeals to creeps. What's the legitimate use case for recording people in public all the time?
DeleteExcept that if I walk into a place with a physical camera in hand, where filming is not permitted or consent required, it's rather more obvious.
DeleteIt's a voice-driven AI chatbot that can see what you see.
DeleteI get that. I guess I don't understand the need for it.
DeleteI do it all the time when I'm driving. I have cameras in my car in case of an accident. If I also drive by something funny or weird, I can go back and look at my old video.
DeleteSituationally, it's very odd.
Car cameras have become very normal. When I pick my kids up from school, I park and wait for them, my car is recording dozens of other kids coming out of the school. Nobody thinks anything of it. But if I did the same by holding up my iPhone and recording everything, someone would call the cops on me as a creep.
Similarly, I have cameras outside my home monitoring my front yard and the cars in my driveway. It's normal. It's not normal if I stood out there with my iPhone recording 24/7.
so the new 'normal' is everyone walking around with a dashcam on their nose because, to follow your logic, standing in someone's face filming them is just a routine security precaution?
DeleteEven with an AR screen I can barely see the point! Honestly I don't think these should even be legal.
DeleteIt would be useful in environments like trade shows if you could get a heads-up display of information from people's LinkedIn, company profile pages, etc. to know who you're talking to, what their company is, and so on as soon as you meet. I'm not saying that justifies the development costs of the product, or the social effects of using them elsewhere, but it's not completely useless tech.
DeleteIt would be a useful addition to body cams too, because it follows where the wearer is facing (though I'd want to use a fisheye lens for maximum context)
Pretty much yes.
DeleteRight like a locker room or bathroom everywhere else that’s considered public space is open
DeleteThey didn't have to even try forcing the surveillance state on us. We welcomed it with open arms - paying handsomely even!
DeleteWe have to welcome it. Society is no longer built on trust at all, but on direct evidence. I'd love the glasses to always be on and recording so I have a body cam at all times so when some nut or scum or grifter tries to pull something I have the evidence to show I was justified in my reaction.
Deletewell there's an argument to be had about merits of say CCTV in terms of public safety or some such, provided safeguards are adequate, and to some extent you have privacy-focused choices online if you're really bothered, but when potentially everyone around you is a vigilante peeping Tom, it's a bit much no matter what PR spiel they'll wheel out.
DeleteThe UK data watchdog is writing to Meta following a "concerning" report claiming outsourced workers were able to view sensitive content filmed by the company's AI smart glasses.
Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers.
'Siri, look away now.'
It doesn’t really matter if you 😡 law is law but the only exception is the bathroom or locker room or somewhere considered private. If you’re out outside or you’re at work it’s considered public space it has to be public space.
DeleteDesign criterion #1: make them not-creepy. Can Apple pull that off? Nobody has so far.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Ray-Ban is one of the many brands owned or made exclusively by EssilorLuxottica. Their near-monopoly in this market is one of the reasons frames are so freaking expensive. So no surprise Apple prefers to design and manufacture their own frames. They gain some advantage just from bypassing EssilorLuxottica.
The ONLY way I can see to avoid the creepiness is if you can never make/view/share recordings.
DeleteEven a giant red recording light would be easy to cover.
Inevitably there would be creepy AF videos come out from these, and Apples name on it wool magnify it far more than we see today.
This pattern of extra attention when Apple does it is a familiar one, but in this case would be good to raise more attention than we currently pay to these glasses.
That would mean the devices would be only for active response to the surroundings, which is a bit odd.
"Hands the reins", not reigns.
ReplyDeleteHow do smart glasses accommodate people who need prescriptive lenses?
ReplyDelete‘Apple Suspect-acles’
DeleteIf AVP is any indicator, custom lenses at extra expense. One of the things (along with price) that put me off that device.
It is easy to imagine an individual's vision anomalies being programmed in to glasses, then the glasses correcting for those individual anomalies (think about how noise control works in AirPods, for instance). It could be much better than building fixed lenses like today's glasses do. E.g. instead of simplistic bifocals or trifocals, smart glasses could seamlessly correct for where the user is looking.
DeleteSuch glasses (we are imagining here) might autocorrect for specific vision issues on the fly, or even on command: e.g. "Siri, magnify to 6x focused to 10 inches" or "Siri, go to movie viewing mode," or "Siri, magnify to 10x focused on bird in far distance," or "Siri, maintain brightness at daylight levels as dusk approaches."
Obviously coping with computing latency would be a huge issue.
Great new rumor! Send it over to Gurman so that he can "report" in 6 months that development is facing issues and thus the product will be delayed.
DeleteYou either order lenses at point of purchase, from a local optometrist, or from one of a zillion online optical shops. Apple already does this for Vision Pro and there are lots of companies marking Rx lenses for the Meta glasses already.
DeleteWow Gurman lives in your head. Just ignore him
DeleteStill not really practical because I need vision correction. For instance, I use really high end progressives due to presbyopia and astigmatism. So whatever these glasses cost, plus ~$400 for an extra pair of lenses, because my vision insurance only covers (part of) one set of glasses. And a lot more complicated if they don't get the lenses right.
DeleteI still need a set of glasses without cameras because there are places I should not be carrying a camera around (locker rooms) and places where cameras are forbidden (courthouses, for instance).
But "pass through" is not the same as "see through".
DeleteWhat you're talking about is "pass through" - for this to work, the user would have to wear goggles, not glasses. The device needs to a camera and then a screen in front of your eyes to process and adjust the image captured by the camera. The screen in front of your eyes would be opaque, because it if was transparent, you would see both the corrected image and the uncorrected image at the same time, which would compound the problem you're trying to solve, rather than solving it.
And, realistically, while people are happy to wear glasses in day-to-day public life, very few people wear goggles/headsets in those situations.
Easy. They don't have displays! They just tell you what you can already see. Just like an iPhone and Apple Watch.
DeletePointless? Yes
Sure, an un-announced product, timeline that Gurman made up, and once again, Apple is facing development issues ...
ReplyDeleteOk, keep it up Gurman ...
Sadly, so many here fall for it.
DeleteNot going to buy this piece of creep, another thing to stay more addicted to tech... Go touch grass...
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting for someone to enlighten me on what purpose a product like this serves. Even with an AR display, I don't get it. Seems like a product for screen addicts with ultimately very little utility over what already exists. Also seems like a product for people who want the machine to spoon-feed them everything. I don't understand the appeal and, like you, have no interest in buying this crap.
DeleteIt's sad. I agree with you, and yet, it's still a shame.
DeleteIf someone had told me, growing up in the 80s, that there would be a pair of glasses that could…
- instantly translate foreign language in voices and text,
- play whatever song you want just for the asking,
- guide you with directions on a walk, hike, or bike ride,
- let you call police just by asking, and the police can see what you see, and they know where you are,
- identify whatever it is you're looking at, no matter how esoteric, and
- take a picture or video of anything you're looking at
…I'd have thought that as an unbelievable unfettered good, science-fiction brought to life for the betterment of humanity.
Could it be that the technology itself isn't creepy, but that it's society and many people who've gotten creepy? That if there is any way to abuse technology, that it happens en-masse, for profit?
Yeah, we already have apple watch and for those who like music there are AirPods... Why spend another $500 on something that won't make something different... Unless you are a creep and want to record people but still...
Delete1000% agree. I'd argue that society has always had a creep element, but certain technology has really empowered creeps in recent decades. Worse still, some of these technologies have actually changed our behaviors and our values. What was once viewed as creepy is now seen as normal by many people.
DeleteThe entire planet is moving towards more surveillance, more control, not more freedom, and technology is enabling all of it. Products like AR glasses make me think of the Black Mirror episode where everything one sees and hears is recorded, where customs officials have you rewind your holiday memories so AI can quickly analyze everything you did and everyone you met, where you get stuck in your old memories because the tech enables you.
I used to believe in an inherent positivity to technology. All of this stuff seemed so exciting and empowering in the early days, but now it's starting to feel very dark. Social media has fundamentally reprogrammed society. I'm honestly glad I'm aging out and don't have kids.
I can’t agree more and I would be highly disappointed if truely Apple was releasing a MetaRayban like product and knowing that it was Tim last priority apparently makes me think it was time for him to step down … as for simple Xreal type of glasses with AR/VR, it is a screen replacement anywhere you are for immersive experience for movies, games, documentaries, productivity when you need avoiding the TV, some bulky monitors in your room or when you don’t have access to one … I am waiting impatiently for this and this only …
DeleteMost creepy product ever invented.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to be that extremely cynical, wait till you realize spatial computing lenses exist.
DeleteThere’s also an argument drones that can be maliciously used to be aerial paparazzi thousands of feet above people with far higher definition cameras than be considered more “creepier”.
Are you seriously comparing specialized 'spacial areal footage' with 1st person, close up, live video feeds that any creep can take?
DeleteThe glasses will feature unique colors... Apple is exploring a range of color options, including black, ocean blue, and light brown.
ReplyDeletewow, where did these unique ideas come from?
and I trust market forces will produce a jamming device to make all the iCreeps see red.
I trust that. This article gives me hope.
Deletehttps://medium.com/aardvark-infinity/shut-them-up-the-ultimate-guide-to-smartphone-signal-jamming-for-tactical-minds-only-ee31c5682780
Oh boy, Apple branded perv goggles. Great.
ReplyDeleteKinda feels like Apple is grasping at straws a lot in 2026.
If turning us into glassholes is Cook's top priority, he can't step down soon enough.
ReplyDeleteHow many health device do we need ? Seriously we don’t need this … We need glasses to do some work and watch movies play games etc like Xreal … Thank you …
ReplyDeleteObsessing over health metrics is another addiction. All of these devices are designed to addict us and keep us connected to the machine 24/7.
DeleteA watch makes sense … but spyglasses + pin + ring oh! … + Airpods Pro too !!!
DeletePremise of Apple 2027 holiday add: A family gathers around a Christmas tree and a blind mother or father puts on Apple smart glasses as their children open presents. Apple Intelligence describes the utter joy on their faces, which the parent has never experienced before. Designed to make you cry.
ReplyDeleteMeta glasses are the hot new "game changing" tech in the blindness community. There are apps that provide remote visual assistance, augmented with AI. People use them for things like buying groceries in big stores like Walmart, or getting from their plane to baggage claim without having to ask airport staff for help.
I haven't used any of the apps with smart glasses, just with my iPhone camera. Having it hands free would take it to another level. I read a review yesterday of one of the remote assistance apps that called it the biggest thing to come along since computers were made to talk back in the 80s.
So yeah, I might jump on that when Apple's take on smart glasses comes out.
This is a great post! I had never even considered this use case. What you describe does sound game changing indeed.
Deletemeta ray bans are the most creepy product used by actual disgusting people.
ReplyDeleteI hope apple is ready to be part of the endless lawsuits that will come from these.
The creepiest part with meta is anytime someone says hey meta start recording the videos can be viewed by meta and real humans, already scandals surrounding videos being viewed that are 100% not for public viewing.
Any cameras even obvious ones need to be flagged as unacceptable in society.
Won't happen.
ReplyDeleteGotta be one of the worst things to happen to society.
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong if I avoid talking or interacting with people who are clearly wearing "smart" glasses with cameras? Is it rude? Should I care?
ReplyDeleteDon't care, not doing it.
Many of you laser focused on creeps and "filming without consent". No one cares about YOU. Creeps are using smartphones too. Everyday I am on the beach, it's sunny all year round. I am playing beach sports. I need sunglasses, I am listening to music, sometimes I am making POV videos or sunset videos. Unlike smartphone cameras or real deal cameras there is no zoom on my Ray Ban Metas or Oakley Meta Vanguards.
ReplyDeleteI use meta glasses... * ducks flying chairs, beer bottles, etc * for turn-by turn navigation when cycling. For this, they are outstanding. Unlike airpods you retain full auditory awareness of your surroundings. And you can request information hands-free. Just needs better integration with maps.
ReplyDeleteI’m open to the idea they could have medical applications, but first the category has to be wrenched back from the perverts/creeps/socially maladjusted weirdos. Early efforts in the category did a lot of damage to public perception.
ReplyDeleteRight now wearing them is a massive red flag to everyone around you. It’s going to take work to rebuild consumer trust.
Hope they ban these everywhere
ReplyDeleteThey’re usually not banned in concerts and clubs because they actually enable less visual noise from stages with their users being more active, present, and hands free to buy their concessions.
DeleteThey also have very handy features to get things done faster and easier such as live captions to hear what significant others say and notifications from them without interrupting someone’s groove.
They’re also more obvious with their recording indicators that someone is recording unlike phones.
With phones, when you target and monitor, your posture and/or positioning of hands and arms is quite obvious. Not so with glasses, especially when you defeat the recording indicators.
Deletehttps://bytetrending.com/2025/10/24/ray-ban-hack-disabling-the-recording-light/
You can hack recording indicators of any device.
DeleteThe same policies to other recordable devices at private establishments apply to glasses.
I don't see the use case for these in terms of mass appeal. AirPods are earphones and everyone listens to music. Apple Watch was able to succeed off the health/fitness angle and it's a watch. These glasses don't seem to have appeal outside of people who make content on social media. I just don't see the average person having a good use case for them. Unless Apple is planning for them to just be a niche product.
ReplyDeleteThese glasses don't seem to have appeal outside of people who make content on social media. I just don't see the average person having a good use case for them. Unless Apple is planning for them to just be a niche product.
ReplyDeleteThere are many use cases.
Delete1. When walking in New York City, London, Paris, etc. you can be notified of restaurants that are empty vs. full, directions to the nearest subway station and time of the next trains to your route.
2. When walking in Disney World, Universal, etc. you can be notified of wait times to rides around you, times for the next parade or show, and directions to get to the attraction you want.
3. When walking, hiking or biking trails you can be given directions or notifications like 'route ends in 10 minutes' without checking your phone or watch.
4. Your glasses could notice friends or contacts you're walking by - or are near. And notify you - 'Your friend Jennifer is checking you out across the street'
5. Your glasses could watch out for and alert you to creepy people around you who AI thinks might rob or attack you. If this becomes a well made commercial, these could sell like hot cakes.
Reads like a list of things that could just as easily be done on a phone or Apple Watch?
DeleteI’m not convinced it’s worth making everyone around me uncomfortable just to avoid having to glance at my wrist.
new text message from Jennifer: 'bye, you creepy creep x'
DeleteThese are indeed use cases, no doubt. But none of them — unless someone has an applicable impairment — fills an essential need that existing technology cannot. The abuse potential of smart glasses is far greater than their significant quality-of-life improvement potential.
Deleteuse case #3 - When I hike, walk, run, or bike trails, I do that to get away from emails, texts, notifications, reminders, etc. I want nothing to distract me from the pleasure of nature and motion. Yes, I also have goals with my outdoor exercising. But I track it with the AppleWatch only for post-activity review.
Especially for the things I enjoy in life, I do not need to and do not want to be managed or interrupted (i.e. 'route ends in 10 minutes') by hand-held or even hands-free tech — it’s hands-off for both.
I can’t think of anything more embarrassing than listening to someone in front of me - “Mmhhmm, yeah, mmm, ohh” - knowing full well that THEY know my glasses are focused on them.
ReplyDeleteIntrusive beyond belief.
So dumb i see no point of this. A product that just allows people to record others without permission.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that the majority of people outside a small fringe of the tech enthusiasts will not give a monkey's ass about this.
ReplyDeleteUntil it is pointing at them. At which point they are not going to like it.
And yet another new product that Apple are struggling to get to market. When are we going to talk about the story behind the story. Something is seriously wrong.
ReplyDeleteSeems many here have stunted imaginations with respect to how these glasses could be used.
ReplyDeleteJust like the AVP, iPad, A-Watch, iPhone........
DeleteIt is no longer a matter of imagination, it’s real. Unfortunately, smart glasses have already been used to record individuals surreptitiously and subsequently posting the footage on social media without consent and the social media company refusing or taking an unduly long time to remove it. The recording indicator on Meta glasses can be disabled.
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Apple glasses, of course, will prevent such abuse.
It seems you are not aware that smart glasses offer many potential uses other than surreptitiously photographing people.
DeleteIt may seem so but I am aware of the potential for beneficial uses and said so in an earlier post in this thread. I did not detail the benefits because smart phones already offer them. The problem is that smart glasses companies are more concerned with profits than limiting privacy intrusion abuse. Apple would have to solve it in order to retain credibility as an advocate of privacy protection.
DeleteThese timelines are like NASA contractors timelines
ReplyDeleteI just need them to be a great heads up display. Give me directions, my notifications. I want a little popup when someone starts taking to me that tells me who they are and my past interactions with them. Would be even better if it had some type of good AI that would put up information on things going on. Imagine the old MTV video pop-up show but with good stuff you need in your life. Walk into a room, for example, and the little thing pops up that points to your AirPods with a note to remind you to put them in your pocket or to charge them.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to live like China and I don't want to live in an area like downtown London!
ReplyDeleteCameras everywhere.
It’s true there’s cameras all over the place in 2026.
ReplyDeleteBut public perception of smart glasses is very negative. Early adopter creeps and shoddy devices poisoned the well. If Apple tries now they have to answer for a tremendous amount of negative baggage.
It’d be kind of like the first person to pitch building a nuclear power plant after Chernobyl. A good idea. But through no fault of their own, they’d have some explaining to do.
Imagine the media feeding frenzy around the first person to do something creepy with the new Apple Glasses.
I still think this is the creepiest tech product segment. I get why in the future AR glasses that look normal but have computer-like functionality will be useful. I don’t get why this is useful, except that Apple is subsidizing their R&D by selling an unfinished product until they can sufficiently minimize the other tech needed to make it more useful.
ReplyDeleteThis is the opposite of how Steve Jobs worked. The iPad was in the lab going back to around 03 or 04? When Microsoft was promoting bulky tablets with horrible touch hardware and software and short battery life. Apple waited patiently and then took over the market. They did that with so many things, and now they just stopped doing that with things like Vision Pro which aren’t ready for mass adoption because of all the drawbacks. All because the law of large numbers came for their stock.
Think $499 is highly possible. Waiting to see the glasses. Should sell well especially with Apple focusing on privacy.
ReplyDeleteApple didn’t consider privacy of other people when they released AirTags.
DeleteHey Siri, please define too little too late
ReplyDeleteWithout any drama: Camera glasses will create legal problems in many countries. Even if people are not filming they will be suspected of constantly doing so. Imagine public restrooms and somebody wearing such a device...
ReplyDeleteMaybe this is the future but we are not there yet.
Florida is a two party consent state for video (with audio) without someone’s knowledge when in a private environment. The expectation of privacy does not exist in public.
DeleteThat might be valid for Florida but in many other countries it does exist and privacy is legally guaranteed. Wearing these video-glasses you might be violating the law on a high level. Say in big European countries the point of filming in public is that other individuals are NOT identified but just anonymous parts of the scenery.
DeleteElectronic companies cannot expect to get a global red carpet treatment legally for whatever they like to sell. And their customers might be the ones to end up in hot water. Remember google street view and the debates about it like cars with high cameras peeping over fences into peoples gardens?
Visual live translation would be wonderful Tim!
ReplyDeleteDelayed another product. So will be out a year after Samsungs and googles first version
ReplyDeleteMeta Glasses are beginning to be banned at events like Comic Cons. You won't be able to get that one-on-one, walk up video with that star you wanted. So, when they start becoming prohibited at events, the Smart Glasses lose their much of their appeal.
ReplyDeleteThere must be a strategy how Apple is intending to deal with this smart glasses and privacy topic?
ReplyDeletethey'll wash their hands off like meta did with some useless guidance.
Deleteed: meta link becomes dotoni something after posting, wtf?
Apple was apparently going to get around this by using lidar only on the glasses. Not sure how well that would work. Personally I think if the ar glasses allowed a camera, but it couldn’t record would be a way around that. Not sure how popular that would be though. Bizarrely the only thing I DON’T want from ar glasses is the ability to take a photo
ReplyDeleteI’m a sucker for new product categories, I’d definitely try them on and see.
ReplyDeleteI love unique frames, so I doubt I’d want to wear these as my main glasses. Someone said this earlier, but I also miss wearing my old watches before the Apple Watch. But the AW is so great that I’m always wearing it. A few times, I’ve had the AW on my left wrist and an old watch on my right wrist.
I agree that taking photos and recording videos from glasses is creepy. I’d hate to be in a corporate meeting and have everything I say recorded, it makes me fear “work environment” claims. Also, with cancel culture, it would be so easy for someone to lose their job/business if something was posted out of context and went viral. However, if I’m at my daughter’s piano recital, I’d sure like to record it without holding my iPhone up. How could Apple discern those things, probably impossible.
Also, it took a few versions of Apple Watch before it wasn’t tethered to iPhone. Could this ship untethered in version 1.0? These don’t need a battery pack, do they? Can’t they use the technology for the small battery inside the Apple Watch to keep it stand-alone?
I agree with previous posts…if these are just glasses with cameras, microphones, headphones, is that enough?
But, I like to think of the positives. Hack up my comments!