Smart glasses have enjoyed quite a few rites of passage this year. There’s been widespread backlash and prohibition, Kardashian-adjacent endorsements with glitzy ad campaigns, and Lorde got in on the action to say, “… f*ck the glasses.” Even with all of that, the landmarks aren’t done quite yet—there’s still some juice in the smart glasses going mainstream tank, and this particular flavor of juice is full of garish gold accents. Like many mobile phones before them, smart glasses—Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, in particular—are now getting the treatment from Caviar, a company best known for making prohibitively expensive gold-covered phones that are tacky enough to make Donald Trump’s interior decorator blush. Introducing: a $6,840 pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses called “Odyssey.” In keeping with other Caviar abominations, the Odyssey smart glasses—which are indeed named after the Greek epic—pull from the same playbook. There’s a lot of 24-karat gold in various locations, like the top of the glasses, the tips of the arms, and accents near the hinges where you’ll find the Caviar name emblazoned. Even the capture button has gold slapped on it, so you can feel extremely fancy while covertly
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As interest in smart glasses balloons, aversion toward them has tracked right along with it. In fact, that aversion is so strong that entire countries are now looking to restrict when and how smart glasses should be allowed. Take Norway,…
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As interest in smart glasses balloons, aversion toward them has tracked right along with it. In fact, that aversion is so strong that entire countries are now looking to restrict when and how smart glasses should be…
Read original at Gizmodo →You can officially list Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as one of the growing number of organizations banning smart glasses. According to the New York Times, ICE sent out a memo on Tuesday prohibiting the use…
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As interest in smart glasses balloons, aversion toward them has tracked right along with it. In fact, that aversion is so strong that entire countries are now looking to restrict when and how smart glasses should be allowed. Take Norway,…
View source →You can officially list Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as one of the growing number of organizations banning smart glasses. According to the New York Times, ICE sent out a memo on Tuesday prohibiting the use of smart glasses by…
View source →A patent filing details ways that Meta could use facial recognition with its smart glasses to create media files, such as videos. A filing submitted by Meta to the US Patent and Trademark Office shows that Meta
View source →Not all features are equal when it comes to securing your data. Meta doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to protecting users' privacy. So it's not surprising that people have grown increasingly distrustful of the…
View source →Smart glasses have enjoyed quite a few rites of passage this year. There’s been widespread backlash and prohibition, Kardashian-adjacent endorsements with glitzy ad campaigns, and Lorde got in on the action to say, “… f*ck the glasses.”…
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