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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    3 days ago

    I remember this media cycle from the GoogleGlass era. And while the initial reporting was “People are viciously attacking anyone seen wearing them!”, the business post-mortem was more that nobody was buying them to begin with.

    These glasses are oversized, heavy, ugly, and pretty much useless for anyone who isn’t a pervert. The sticker price for this largely pointless gadget can go north of $800 retail. That’s a high-end PC or fully loaded PS5 for a small camera that sits on your face and some lenses that give you a Virtual Boy tier of AR overlay.

    Who has time for this shit? There’s no use-case.

    • Steve@startrek.websiteEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Excuse me but whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”? You’re living in the past…

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        3 days ago

        whens the last time you priced a “high end pc”?

        👉👈 Maybe five years ago. Even then, I’ll admit “high end” is generous.

        $800 is still a ton of money for an ugly pair of glasses with a gimmick nobody has implemented.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            I mean, I saw 32GB ram sticks going for $1k the other day.

            But you can get a Ryzen 9 9950X for under $700. The chips going up into the four and five figures are for very high end video rendering and machine learning.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        To be fair, you can get a $800 high end PC… but it would be used and 4 to 5 generations out of date.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      3 days ago

      I can think of several use-cases: subtitles for the hearing impaired, translation, AR overlays for technical work, etc. Not saying they’re a good value, but it seems weird to say there’s no use-case.

      And I genuinely don’t understand the pervert angle. What do they do for perverts that can’t be done with much cheaper button/pen cameras, or even a phone in your breast pocket?

      Like sure, there are problems with surveillance and ads and other nasty tech bro shit, that much is obvious. But I sincerely do not understand why they’re being called pervert glasses. Am I missing something?