See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware product involved cameras. They’re on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that got a software update, the new Quest 3S virtual reality headset, and Meta’s prototype Orion AR glasses. Orion is what Meta calls a “time machine”: a functioning example of what full-fledged AR could look like, years before it will be consumer-ready. But on Meta’s campus, at least, the Ray-Bans were already everywhere. It…

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The thing that bothers me the most is that there’s a lot tech like thus could help with, but the problem is we can’t trust the companies or the states who are supposed to regulate the companies.

    Like if we could actually trust the govenrment. We could have so much fancy shit.

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      2 months ago

      You can trust the government. You can’t always trust the people voted in to government.