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Meta's finances must be in the shitter to be enshittifying a premium product.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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Good. Enshittification of the panopticon goggles.
This is the kind of enshitification thats good for society.
Fuck these privacy invading creep goggles. I hope they continue to make them worse to use and posses
I'm actually OK with this enshittification, and hope it continues into oblivion on the Facebook spyglasses. Personally
def hope it reduces the glass-pervs out there.
Im sure the pervs will gladly pay extra
depressingly plausible;
beginning of the end for yet another set of AR glasses
And thank god for that. Right now they're just going to be secretley-always-on Zuckerberg surveillance tools in ways that phones struggle to replicate.
I'd say this is more like the middle of the end, with the beginning of the end being the Meta logo on them.
@Wispy2891, the 'offline feature that runs on your own hardware' framing is the part that stings most here — Meta's basically renting you back functionality baked into silicon you already bought. The ANC earphone comparison is dead-on; my $40 Ankers do ambient boost passively, no subscription, no timer. What's wild is 3 hours/month math: that's 6 minutes a day. Barely a commute.
I could get requiring a subscription for server based AI features, but they say they tested it in airplane mode and it worked because it's on device, that's seriously fucked. That should never have a limit.
The fun part is that even if you pay the $20/month subscription you can only use the feature that runs locally on your device up to 30 minutes a day
Garbage in - garbage out
Lol.
I don't mind if the people who wear these get ripped off
This should be in "leopards at my face." They didn't care about the impact of their carless decisions, and now they are getting screwed.
their carless decisions,
Idk if they was a tacit reference or accidental, but...
I bout the bool and.couldn't get far in it. It made me sick.
I cant wait till they are discontinued.
What, were they too popular before? lol
My mom just caught one of her kids using these to cheat on a final. He had them Bluetoothed to his laptop and it disconnected at some point and she heard "the answer to number 7 is...." But she said he barely got a C on it even while cheating. So since she didn't know about the glasses until after that student left and another student told her it was the glasses, she just kinda let it go saying "it's honestly going to be his problem in the future."
Edit: she couldn't pin point the kid at the moment, and wasn't informed who it was until after the kid was gone and the other student told her.
I'm not a teacher, but I dunno if that's the right response to someone cheating. It is going to be his problem in the future, but as a teacher, isn't it her job to teach the kid that that's not OK? Sorta depends on the age, I suppose, but I'd definitely give the kid a 0% instead of a C.
You know, if the kid is using state of the art tech to cheat and he still only got a C, then maybe let this one go.
Maybe this kid needs all the help he can get.
Teaching someone that cheating is a way to get a pass vs a fail isn't helping anyone, in my opinion, but it could be situational.
She couldn't really have done anything considering she didn't know which kid it was until after they were gone and the other student informed her.
Ahh, that makes a bit more sense I suppose. Innocent until proved guilty and whatnot. I feel like I'd still want to bring them in to confront them about it, to let them know that they didn't really get away with it. Also, obviously, I'd be banning smart glasses from tests.
She's visiting for a funeral and I commented something on the commercial for them, and she told me that sorry and about how she has to watch out for them now. Another loose relation is visiting and a teacher as well and I asked them about ai and got two totally different experiences. My mom's class doesn't require a lot of literature as it's a low level bio class, but the loose family is teaching English to troubled youth and sees it absolutely everywhere. She started having them write one paper first day in class to get a feel for their actual writing aptitude.
Interesting insight of course. I can't imagine being a teacher right now, having to keep up with these things. You're basically forced to become a techie in some ways, when before, many teachers really had no reason or need to learn tech stuff. I guess they had other cheating methods to keep up with, but man, these cheating tools are just evolving so fast these days.
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yeah, i tutored a fair amount of pre-med students who had to take economics as a general education class. dullards to the last one (these were the ones who needed a tutor for introductory economics) and every single one tried to pay me to do their homework. i kept their names and about half are now working in medicine, because "that'll be their problem" turns into "that'll be the patient's problem".
please remind your mother that if y'all keep failing them through, look what happens
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good! hopefully this will discourage everyone who bought them from using them, so they just sit in a drawer somewhere or get recycled instead of spying on unwitting people, and meta will fail to make back the huge amounts of money they've invested in tech that most people don't want 😌
It's funny, I would love to some have the novel tech they developed (HUD / display built into glasses since I'm wearing them anyways). The problem, as usual, is corps taking the piss with prices and profit then spying on you and everyone around you non-stop anyways....
I would 100% be open to some HUD glasses delivered with a FOSS OS that works completely offline and/or via your phone (but still offline). But that's seriously wishful thinking given our corporate and political overlords
I always thought it would be cool if you could just leave AR notes lying around. Like put a digital note reminder on the fridge. Or a cute meme or joke somewhere your partner would find it. Or an IRL message forum that only exists at a specific location, you can't access it remotely. I dunno how you could implement that, but it would be interesting.
I think it's fairly easy to imagine what that would be like, given the limited examples you can see with a VR headset with pass-through. It could be pretty sweet for people to have the option of a digital overlay on reality that's under their own control.
What's missing are the extremely powerful but also extremely miniaturized and efficient hardware (imagine just constant inside-out tracking of some kind with the storage to remember the 3D layout of basically everywhere you go, but also with 12-24 hour battery life and not generating a noticeable amount of heat with a tiny surface area), and the open technologies and/or lack of enshittification. Who is going to sell such a device but won't stuff it with ads, surveillance, and paywalls?
The closest we've seen is Apple's headset that was still just a high end VR headset with passthrough and was thousands of dollars while still being locked down.
Yah, like videos or guides on screen whilst I have my hands full soldering or something seems like a great application.
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These will identify sad nerds the way taped glasses identify the nerd in old movies.
If I see anyone with meta/snap/etc glasses, I’m going to just assume they’re fucking pathetic assholes.
I don’t know if “taped glasses nerd” was such a negative term in old movies.
And I correlate the Meta glasses more with a “tech creep” and manosphere Musk worship culture.
Like, I’m an introverted nerd. I could be “taped glasses guy” if I wore glasses; hell, my sunglasses are glued. But even if I was a full throated Tech Bro trying to idolize Zuck, I’m way too introverted to wear these out in public because you’d be filming people; thats mortifying to me.
It needs a different kind of personality, I think.
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Subscriptions for offline features should be completely illegal. In fact Meta is probably already technically illegal.
If we lived in functional democracies most large multinationals would've been split up a long time ago, including Meta.
Instead we live in a grey area of plutocratic corporate dictatorship.
something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing
Because God forbid you take the fucking earbuds out of your head when talking to someone.
They use the fact that they have multiple microphones and some audio processing to isolate the voice of the person from the background noise. Taking your earbuds out would make it harder to hear them, not easier.
In noisy areas (like a bar) it can be the difference between being able to understand the person you're with and being deafened by the background noise.
It's all done on your device so it makes zero sense that they would charge a subscription other than as a means of financial extortion to use the hardware that you paid for.
This. Honestly they're amazing on airplanes, since you can still talk and hear all the announcements / flight attendants without the background noise.
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