Meta glasses wearers hit with paywall to use built-in feature

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wy317d71jo

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Expected asshole behavior from Meta and zero sympathy to people who buy that trash.

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I was about to type pretty much the exact same thing, but I figured it would already be here for me to upvote :)

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I wasn’t paying attention when Facebook began ruining technology with bad business decisions but it’s getting old.

I have an oculus VR that’s basically useless now that meta owns the company. They decided to stop updating it, so my 450 dollar bought brand new hoped it would last for life is a paper weight.

Pay wall for already way too expensive and kind of pointless glasses? Like what. Is that how they’re making money now?

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androids like zuckerberg are unlikely to have emotions, or humanity.

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Techophobia is way too common on lemmy

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You’re calling a community that is majority Linux enthusiasts technophobic?

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technophobia, or dislike of corporations that would kill people if it meant more profit?

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Corporations that do kill people because it means more profit*

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Enshitification of shit. They truly are meta.

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Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.

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I was always a fan of Ray Ban and got their glasses/sunglasses. Guess I need to look elsewhere since this god awful partnership.

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Personally i avoid visible branding, and at that point you can just go with whatever frame you like. Investing in high quality lenses is much better spent money in my experience, lightweight+deglared+extra thin lenses make a world of difference for comfortable wearing over longer time for me.

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Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.

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I used to like Ray Bans, too. Then Luxotica bought them and they’ve never got any on my money since. I buy exclusively from Costco because they only sell non-Luxotica brand glasses for significantly cheaper.

Prescription sunglasses look identical to aviators, at a fraction of the price.

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did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued

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Sam’s does the same and you don’t need a membership to use the eye center for either.

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Would be great of Costco had their own brand of smart glasses

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Why? Smart glasses are stupid and no one should be buying them. They are a scam and another form of constant surveillance and recording. Only now with more accurate face recognition. All hail the future police state.

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Might I suggest Persol?

Sadly, they are expensive, but they look good and have great quallity in my experience.

As for glasses, five years ago, I got my first Lindberg glasses, and I am never going back to other brands.

I am currently on my third pair of black Lindberg Aaron and my current sunnies are a pair of gunmetal Persol PO1027S with custom brown lenses.

I have all of my pervious Lindberg frames and will start reusing them next time, as for the Persol, I lost my earlier pair of an earlier model of Persol sunglasses, but I plan on getting new models or a new pair of the same model to have some spares or variation.

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Cheers for the comprehensive recommendations, I’ll check them out!

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Good headline. Didn’t call them “owners”. Because this doesn’t happen to something you own.

Article’s first sentence already fails though.

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This bait-and-switch bullshit has gone way too far and I hope the few dozen socialists that get elected this fall really wreck this shit for the billionaires and force regulation.

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Jeeezus. Who uses these products? They are cumbersome to begin with, and so much worse with enshittification

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So far as i can tell, people who make PoV content, everything from YouTube shop vendors to porn

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They seemed reasonable for people that like fishing and the like (ignoring the huge privacy issues).

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Sucked in, dickheads!

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Usually one would wait til their product take over the market before enshitifying it. For this one, they don’t even have a feasible market. Who am I to judge tho.

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Good. Perverts.

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Oh you thought we’d only demand hundreds of bucks for this trash? naw, now you need to pay a subscription fee. Now pay up loser.

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Well that was fast

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Like, basic vision? That would be funny

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Nobody deserves it more

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I kinda think that’s hilarious and how everyone that bought these go broke. Maybe at least someone will finally learn something then.

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GOOD!!!! FUCK THESE GLASSES

These should literally exclusively be an aid device for the visually impaired and nothing more.

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These mofos watched the failure that was google glass and went for it anyway lol

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