Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

buzzwords an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Meta's survival is fascinating to me. They dumped money in VR, their AI is not as good as their competitors and now they are dumping money on this glasses thing. They keep on getting caught doing shady things too.

	▲	m11a 39 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Says a lot about just how much money they’re raking in from core business.
	▲	watwut 40 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think it is the shady stuff that earns them money. They cant survive without that. The rest is a corporate hobby, basically.

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kstrauser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Me: You know, these ugly creeper peepers could not possibly make me want them any less.

A PM deep in the heart of darkness: Hold my creatine.

	▲	cyberax 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, the sky's the limit. The next version can also shock the user!

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janalsncm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Something doesn’t add up. According to what the article is saying about Meta’s help article, there is no price tier which allows unlimited conversation mode 720 hours/month. Even the highest paid tier can only get 15 hours.

But the article says this is an on-device feature. So there should be no overhead to Meta at all, aside from them storing the conversations I assume.

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hamburgererror an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This kind of product should simply be banned, there's just so many things wrong.

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drsalt 32 minutes ago | parent [-]

absurd to ban cameras but allow firearms

	▲	hamburgererror 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not in the US so firearms are not even a question for me.

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verytrivial 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was shown a full page interstitial for Meta Starfire by Kylie the other day, and it wasn't even the good Kylie.

I have doubts they know how to market these if I'm seeing this ad.

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dmitrygr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Meta’s rate limit is ridiculous. [...] feature [...] doesn’t use Meta’s servers. It runs on-device, using the chips inside the glasses [...] I turned off my internet, and it kept working.

BMW heated-seats style move. Classy.

	▲	johanbcn 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, of course it's getting rate limited behind a subscription. Someone has to pay for all the additional compute and storage required to datamine your conversations.

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stavros an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://archive.is/vGVor

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Havoc an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t even have adoption yet? They’re skipping a couple of steps on the enshitification ladder here

	▲	ageitgey an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They are actually selling really well. But sadly, they are selling because you can drill out the 'recording' indicator light and use them to secretly record people to make creepy TikToks.