[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #768: When it comes to smart glasses, can Facebook make it where Google failed?

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OPLIN 4Cast #768: When it comes to smart glasses, can Facebook make it
where Google failed?
September 15th, 2021

[image: woman wearing sunglasses with facebook logo on lenses] I was once
at a conference where Google was letting people try out their new smart
glasses. I was eager, but the lines were always too long. The Google Glass
project ultimately fizzled—buggy performance, few practical applications
available, the surveillance aspect creeped people out, and the glasses
themselves were just ugly—but development on the smartglasses idea
continues to bubble along. Last week, Facebook announced Ray-Ban Stories,
which might start propelling these into the mainstream.

   -
   - Facebook on Your Face
   <https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22662809/facebook-ray-ban-stories-camera-smart-glasses-hands-on>
   [*The Verge*] "The frames feature two-front facing cameras for capturing
   video and photos. There’s a physical button on the glasses for recording,
   or you can say 'Hey Facebook, take a video' to control them hands-free.
   And, perhaps most importantly, they look and feel like regular glasses."
   - Ray-Ban Stories: These are Facebook’s first mass-market smart glasses
   <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/ray-ban-stories-these-are-facebooks-first-mass-market-smart-glasses/>
   [*Ars Technica*] "The Ray-Ban Stories are equipped with a Snapdragon
   processor, but they don't have displays in the lenses, so these are by no
   means augmented reality (AR) glasses."
   - Xiaomi launches its own smart glasses, of course
   <https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/xiaomi-launches-its-own-smart-glasses-of-course/>
   [*TechCrunch*] "The device won’t only be capable of taking photos, but
   also of displaying messages and notifications, making calls, providing
   navigation and translating text right in real time in front of your eyes."
   - Facebook's Smart Glasses Give People a Good Reason Not to Trust Your
   Ray-Bans
   <https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-smart-glasses-give-people-a-good-reason-not-t-1847644409>
   [*Gizmodo*] "No amount of assurance is going to erase or even ease
   privacy concerns. That’s going to take a massive cultural shift. These
   glasses need to give us a killer reason why we’d trade our collective
   privacy—or the illusion of it—for the ability to snap a 2014-quality video."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Pressman, Aaron. “Lenovo Unveils Smartglasses That Project Your
   Windows Desktop Screen in Midair
   <https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=148038080&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Fortune.Com*, Jan. 2021, p. N.PAG.
   - Metz, Rachel. “Google Glass Is Dead; Long Live Smart Glasses
   <https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=100243731&site=ehost-live>
   .” *MIT Technology Review*, vol. 118, no. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 79–82.
   - Dion, Jason. "Security implications of wearable technology
   <https://www.linkedin.com/learning/casp-plus-cert-prep-2-enterprise-security-architecture/security-implications-of-wearable-technology>."
   *CASP+ Cert Prep: 2 Enterprise Security Architecture*. LinkedIn
   Learning. [Retrieved 2021-09-13]

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