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Someone make glasses that do this please. (startrek.website)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] Gork@lemm.ee 131 points 5 months ago

I would totally wear smart goggles that do this.

Unfortunately it's far more likely that we will receive smart goggles that add ads, not subtract them.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

Why am I picturing Roddy Piper...

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Obey

[-] variants@possumpat.io 7 points 5 months ago

What a good and cheesy but still great movie

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass..."

[-] badbrainstorm@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago

Came here for the They Live comments

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

The Animal loves you

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 24 points 5 months ago

Yes and no. For ads to make any kind of revenue, you first need an user-base. And if the first thing you do is riddle them with ads, it will probably really hurt the sales.

So, the first generation of smart glasses should be pretty OK as far as ads go. Of course, they will gradually introduce them, but that will hopefully take several years before we get to that point.

And inevitably some FOSS/privacy focused alternative will show up, just like you have with GrapheneOS, PinePhone and similar. Or, assuming they will let developers side-load their apps without going through proprietary store (which may be unlikely, given the current trend of locking everything down - on the other hand, there is a pretty large market of developers who wouldn't touch anything Apple-level of closed and someone will definitely want to cash in on it), you will eventually get OCR ad-blocks for billboards outside. I bet that would be one of the first apps developed once possible.