They are testing these in performing arts theaters to provide text to hearing impaired people so that you don't have to have the sign language folks on the side of the stage.
Tell uncle zukerkike all your secrets, and everything that goes on around you. We Keep Your Data Private, we swear.
Still, after the initial wonder and excitement tempered, I remembered my colleague Liz Lopatto’s recent column on how none of us truly has anonymity anymore. Surely these glasses will only exacerbate that. I thought about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments that people without AI smart glasses will be at a “significant cognitive disadvantage.” I winced at how a Border Patrol agent was spotted wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Metas during an immigration raid. Then I mulled the huge advances these glasses could pioneer in accessibility tech, enabling disabled people to live more independently. Are we perhaps rushing to open Pandora’s box without first thinking through what might break in the process? That question will linger in my mind until I get a pair for myself.
As it stands, you do not have the presumption of privacy when you are in public. This will make it harder to determine when someone is recording you in a traditionally private space.
