At the end of September, in the grand presentation of Meta. Mark Zuckerberg’s company charmed the audience with a pair of new Ray Bans. This would be a bit strange if it weren’t for the fact that companies work together to provide the best smartglasses. And I guess they succeeded, because people were delighted.
This breakthrough product from Facebook’s parent company was baptized as Meta Orion. A freshly shown prototype of a product that may conquer city sidewalks in the near future. Invited journalists they don’t hide it, that when they went to the show, they were not positive about this product. However, after trying it, even in controlled conditions, they were enchanted by the vision of what was shown. No wonder, the glasses look surprisingly normal. They are quite thicker than regular frames, but when dressed appropriately… Stop. Why shouldn’t we be surprised? Has everyone gone completely crazy? I understand that few people think about privacy, but really?
Hello, is anyone there? This is Meta technology
Let’s not be fooled nice technology, smart glasses are already raising a number of red flags. This is not the time to admire them, but to analyze them in order to prepare appropriate legal regulations now for the influx of such devices. Why, it’s really no surprise is the amount of eyes and attention this show attracted. Meta Orion is probably the first device of this type with which you could actually go out and not attract too much attention from passers-by. Especially unlike the competition in the field of AR vision, Apple’s Vision Pro. From what we hear, these glasses are simply comfortable, and contrary to appearances, this may be their most important feature.
It’s terrifying too tempo, how Zuckerberg’s engineers achieved the current result. Even if the demonstration was controlled, it is worth remembering that Project Balboa (as the glasses were called then) started in just 2022 in the form of a reworked Oculus Quest Pro. And I have no doubt that the smell of money is the strongest driving force here. I’m not talking here about spectacular sales of the device, it won’t be the main source of cash inflow.
Let me remind you, we are talking about here Finish lineFacebook. Literally, Zuckerberg explained himself in American Congressdue to the lack of reaction of its entity to the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a company that, without the knowledge of almost 100,000,000 peopleused their data for political profiling. They make money by selling data that allows advertisers to profile the purpose of their campaigns, but not only that. According to regulations, companies can use them widely. Now think about it, honestly. Like many of you clicks on consent to share datawithout reading what he actually shares? How many of your friends or family members have wondered what consequences does contact sharing involve? Now the entire Meta management board wants to jump to an even higher level of obtaining information about us, which we are apparently ready to give up.
Our eyes say more than we realize
Meta Orionuse advanced technology to track the movement of our eyes and head (and that’s not all, because they work in tandem with a band that reads the nerve signals of our wrist). All this, of course, to provide users with the greatest comfort. After all, we don’t want a blurry image during a conference call. When maps tell us where to turn, we want to make sure we’re staying on the correct route. Very nice, but. Our eyes betray o many more than we think. Tests showed that only the analysis of only this part of our body allows us to read: the state of our mental health, behavior among people, information about addictions, our abilities and even sexual preferences. If that doesn’t sound like millions of dollars of data to anyone, I don’t know how I can dampen my excitement for this technology any further.
Smartokulary they can have so many negative effects that it’s hard to choose where to start. The response is needed now. Above, I only touched on the issue of data about ourselves. Without even mentioning ithow much we help profile our loved ones in this way. The next issues are: privacy in public places and continuous recording of the surroundings. Nobody will convince methat the LED light indicating recording is an effective method of protection. Security of our equipmentis also in question, already in 2014 could be read password for our devices. Responsible use, cutting yourself off from other people, another method of screen addiction and many others may threaten us if we accept this equipment unprepared.
Well, I hopethat I’m just exaggerating.
Source: antyweb.pl
