Would you be surprised to find out that the facebook "smart" glasses have been outsourcing the video for review and processing to Nairobi?

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@futurebird @secretsloth

Nausea from Regressive Progress

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@futurebird @secretsloth

I feel like what's going on here is they hate paying and training employees so much they are willing to abuse the customer

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@futurebird @secretsloth

SOOOOOO much this.
I think it’s part patriarchy tech bro capitalism culture eliminating creative voices that aren’t seeking profit over the actual product and idea, and consumer happiness.
They don’t care about the end result at all.

[qurlyjoe@mstdn.social]

@futurebird
I wonder why “glassholes” got laughed out of the house a couple years ago but not this new crop? Metahole just doesn’t have a ring to it.

@5ciFiGirl @somafm

[complexmath@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird @secretsloth when AR started being a thing I thought “oh wow, airplane engine repair people could get an entire HUD for part status, last replacement time, and schematics when they look at a thing” and while it turned out that was wildly ambitious for the tech at the time, no one seems to even be trying to do things like that because surveillance, games, and porn make more money.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@futurebird

Epstein eyewear

[jestbill@mastodon.world]

@futurebird @secretsloth This is actually an improvement!!
Twenty years ago, I had to deal with a customer service that was SAVING MONEY by hiring just any random high schooler.
Bad. Not only didn't understand the problem, but "solved" it by doing something random, "Thank you, sir", and hanging up.
Went through that at least three times before reaching the last actual person on staff. They looked at the log and started laughing.

[cubeofcheese@mstdn.social]

@lilithian @futurebird is it possible they can continue recording after taking them off? Where do you set your glasses down in a bedroom?
So is it possible some of these cases weren't even purposeful?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@cubeofcheese @lilithian

" is it possible they can continue recording after taking them off? "

Yes they outline one such case in the article I think.

[r343l@freeradical.zone]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth That seems like a genuinely cool use of technology that is probably quite feasible to do WELL now and also likely would be appreciated by actual people in those jobs (easier than context switching to look at a maintenance log on some other screen or whatever). But also one that you REALLY can't use an LLM for because getting it wrong even a little could be disastrous.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth That was why I was tempted to put a preorder on LaForge glasses. Of course, they turned out to be vaporware.

[alec@perkins.pub]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth I remember this being a literal plot device in Michael Crichton’s AIRFRAME. It seemed so cool and obviously useful!

[hattifattener@wandering.shop]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth I went to a VR-adjacent trade show like ... 20 years ago?... and aircraft maintenance AR was a thing a bunch of people were working towards. I don't know if it didn't pan out, or if it's old hat now, or what

Even without real lock-to-the-environment AR, a HUD with next steps and instructions seems like it should be super useful when your hands are full of tools

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Mechanical turk.

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@futurebird@sauropods.win @lilithian@pagan.plus

they may save the video for later

this is litrrally black mirror plot <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://outerheaven.club/emoji/blobcat/blobcatgrimacing.png" title=":blobcatgrimacing:" />
(not that we haven't had enough black mirror irl already)

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth yea it turns out that having incredibly detailed 3d models of every component involved is many orders of magnitude more expensive than anticipated, both computationally and in personal labor.
I've been involved in modern AR for the past two years and my takeaway is it's still not even close to ready. Not the hardware, not the infrastructure, not the programming models, and don't get me started on the UX.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hattifattener @complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth the headsets that have the resolution you need for that kind of HUD are some combination of too heavy, too expensive, and obscure vision to much. There are people working on it still but it's not there.

Also concerns about deskilling, outages, ongoing costs...

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@r343l @complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth > But also one that you REALLY can't use an LLM for because getting it wrong even a little could be disastrous.

For LLM fans there is no such thing. Modern AR development is riddled with it.

[ix9@social.vivaldi.net]

@llewelly @futurebird They jumped ship to become paid voyeurs.

[zbrown@floss.social]

@futurebird so this time ‘AI’ is African Intelligence?

To think, we could have invested trillions into that, but instead we gave it to techbros.