This eye-controlled smart glass is a San Francisco-based startup's bet on ambient computing.
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    22·
    12 hours ago

    There’s a new one being launched by a San Francisco-based startup that has some impressive specs, is powered by Linux, and isn’t looking to sell user data.

    …yet.

    This is not an open source project. We covered it because the operating system for this is based on Linux.

    It’s (not) FOSS

    Some use cases the company points to include hands-free coding agents, reading board schematics mid-build, following a recipe in the kitchen, and keeping sheet music in view while playing an instrument.

    We’re trying really hard to come up with justifications to normalize people wearing a camera and microphone on their face all the time.

    Before you get worried, Raven Prism will ship with a physical cover for the camera that you remove when you want to use it and put back when you don’t.

    Which people will discard or lose within a month, especially if it looks like a weird extra piece attached to the frame.

    There’s also “Beakon” lights that illuminate when the camera is active, making it visible to both the wearer and anyone nearby.

    Which will get disabled almost immediately.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    52·
    8 hours ago

    I don’t like the Meta camera glasses because the feeds go directly to a company who have every incentive to spy on the footage and sell the results to whoever can clear an ACH transaction.

    The creepiness is that Meta sees everything that is recorded. We already live in a world where everyone carries multiple cameras at all times, having a new class of wearable won’t appreciably change that.

    On the other hand, having a device that you can root and change the system image means a lot for privacy. You’re not required to share every picture and video with Zuckerberg.

    Creepy people are going to be creepy regardless. Condemning an entire category of wearable because a tiny portion of the population will misuse them doesn’t make much sense to me. It’s like governments trying to ban GrapheneOS because some people use it for criminal purposes.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    302·
    14 hours ago

    So we should support these camera glasses just because they are not Meta or Google?

    Nah mate, they are still a creepy recording device.