Tech Giants Can't Agree On What To Call Their AI-Powered Glasses (theverge.com) 39
The glasses-shaped face computers that tech companies have been building for years now face an identity crisis, and their makers can't agree on what to call them. Meta has asked a journalist to refer to its Ray-Ban glasses as "AI glasses" to distinguish them from Google Glass. Google, whose Project Aura is a collaboration with Xreal, calls the product "wired XR glasses" because the company views it as more aligned with headsets in a glasses form factor.
Xreal's CEO Chi Xu laughed when asked about Aura's category and said the company will call all its products "AR glasses." Research firms aren't aligned either. Gartner defines smart glasses as camera- and display-free devices with Bluetooth and AI. Counterpoint Research said smart glasses without see-through displays drive volumes in the smart eyewear category. IDC uses a broader definition that includes anything glasses-shaped.
Xreal's CEO Chi Xu laughed when asked about Aura's category and said the company will call all its products "AR glasses." Research firms aren't aligned either. Gartner defines smart glasses as camera- and display-free devices with Bluetooth and AI. Counterpoint Research said smart glasses without see-through displays drive volumes in the smart eyewear category. IDC uses a broader definition that includes anything glasses-shaped.
Call them Shite (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Call them Shite (Score:4, Informative)
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They're an asshole indicator. These tell me everything I need to know about the wearer and exactly who to avoid.
Indeed. And "Boner Killer" would be too "on the nose," so to speak, though I guess all glasses are the latter. :-)
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A few ideas: (Score:4, Funny)
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Privacy Nightmare
Spy Galore
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Creepy
The Go Ogle of course (Score:2)
Add an infrared mode to complete the feature set.
We al know what it's going to be (Score:2)
Eyeballs+
_I_ know what to call them! (Score:2)
SHIT YOU HAVE TO WEAR ON YOUR FACE.
People do. not. want.
Market-Leading products you have to wear on your face:
Eyeglasses/Sunglasses
Nose jewelry
Medical/Covid masks
CPAP mask
Halloween/Fancy Dress masks
Thug/ICE asshole masks
Not-Market-Leading products you have to wear on your face:
Google Glass
Apple whatever that thing is
Oculus Rift/Meta whatever
Magic Leap
Cardboard 3D glasses
Movie theater 3D glasses
Home theater 3D glasses
Lay-Down-In-Bed-Read-A-Book-Prism-Glasses
Facial Tatoos
Eyeball Jewelry
Generally speaking, peo
Most of us will call them "glasses" (Score:2)
I wear glasses almost every waking moment, and have since my early 20s.
I'm not alone in this. There are plenty of people who have little or no aversion wearing something on their faces.
If they can get the weight and bulk down, of course I'm going to replace my current dumb glasses with glasses that can do something interesting. Not sure what that interesting thing is going to be, but since my current glasses (and the many pair before them) do nothing but correct my vision, the bar for this category of produ
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Consider reading that post that I replied to.
Also consider counting how many times the word "camera" appears in that post.
Stasivision (Score:2)
Glassistants (Score:2)
Glassistants
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You misspelled Glassholes. Glarseholes for British English speakers. :-p
Overcaffeinated Marketers (Score:1)
Blockchain Quantum Edge AI Boujee GOAT Bestie Glasses
Xtra Specs? (Score:2)
Look-Fancies would pair well with fancy pants.
C-Ya's! Sounds appropriate.
Eye Snacks is a tastier alternative.
Apple will of course have iGlasses.
Google will sell Goo-Goggles.
SeeMeeS is a good name that reminds people the owner might not see them, so watch out. Plus, palindromic.
goggles for gargoyles (Score:2)
Continuing the snowcrash theme - Gargoyle Goggles. ... glasses.
That's a mouthful so they will inevitably be called
If they were named honestly... (Score:3)
The name would reflect the reality that they are a solution desperately seeking a problem.
They have no real use yet, but companies and investors need the "next big thing", even if it's silly and useless.
There is a strong chance that a few real uses will be found as the tech improves, but the current stuff should be labeled as, Preliminary Design for Testing Only.
Unwanted (Score:2)
The idea is great, we just don't trust the compani (Score:3)
I have always dreamed of being cyber-augmented. A camera and a brain implant, so that I could look at a sign and mentally think "zoom in" and read it from a distance. Or look at some acquaintance and have it display: "Joe Smith, at 37. 2 kids Joey and Kaley. Joey just joined Cub Scouts. Kaley auditioned for the part of Dorothy." That would frieking rooock! Or to listen to a speech and have it pop-up with fact checks.
We have the tech!!!!
But the data stream is owned by assholes!!!
When we imagine this, we don't imagine that the video + your location + the last time you made a bowel movement is streamed to an advertising company who offers this as a free service so that they can beam targeted ads into your brain. That's now how this is supposed to work. Do I like the idea that a computer can warn the school principal that a student brought a gun into school? Yes! But not if that means the camera also tracks the student's every movement and knows who is on their period. That's not cool, and it's not worth it.
Technology futurism isn't evil. But the population at large ceded control of the internet to the least worthy of humanity. We can get to a really cool future only if people flock to systems that are designed around people controlling their own data.
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Reality is that you will have banner ads for boner pills and crappy brick breaker games at the top and bottom of your visual field. Want to drive a car? Hold for this brief 120 second message from our sponsors.
Fist face (Score:3)
I would call them a bad idea. Not just the glasses but wearing them in public. Anyone who wears them is just going to get punched and or shit on people around them.
MWOM (Score:2)
Monumental Waste of Money
How about the word of 2025... (Score:2)
How about the word of 2025....slop. So "slop-a-vision" AI slop for pigs.
JoshK.
Finally (Score:2)
I will be able to ask some BS AI if a ham is big enough for my Christmas party without needlessly using my phone or common sense
Assisted second sight, simple and to the point. (Score:1)
PeepingToms (Score:1)
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Something which reflects the increased risk of eye and head cancer - but catchy and sexy at the same time...
My Vote (Score:2)