S4E34 - Season 3 Episode 34 - How safe are AI-integrated glasses?

And I'm going to take you back a bit, Luke, way before I met you, when I was still wearing glasses.

I used to have a tool put out by a company, I think from memory, it's called InVision.

And it sat on the side of my glasses, on the frame of the glasses.

So the weight of the glasses was out.

So your line of sight, how they fit the glasses at a technician and things, that was always out.

And it linked to my phone.

I could double tap it.

I could ask it, describe what I'm looking at.

It would read documents to me, things like that.

Very clunky.

bit of a it was a pain in the butt to be honest and you actually had to be able to line your head up to where you were looking at and do you know what when you can't see properly being able to line your head up with a sign or whatever it was particularly when there was no sound coming from it it was really hard to use now we're here today talking about meta ray-ban glasses what do you know about them luke

So there were some, it's a camera, glasses, AI integrated product as released by Meta slash Facebook.

They've been out for a while and people were paying attention, but it certainly wasn't the level of engagement from the press, from the politicians, from the public, while it was just Ray-Ban Meta.

The moment that Kmart started selling their cheap $90 versions and they were selling out nationally, everyone was going, oh, my God, what's the concern here? Because previously the frames had set you back at least $350, and that is now a dedicated decision purchase when you're getting prescription lenses to go and get a camera-enabled, artificial intelligence-enabled tool.

But now you're buying it for $90 at Kmart.

So that changed the conversation a bit.

The thing that's frustrating me is I've got many friends that use them.

Obviously, you know, it's blind as a bat, you know, secondhand, actually worse than a secondhand lawnmower.

I think we're on about the fourth age owner lawnmower where the blades, you can easily replace them, but, damn, there's a lot of rust in the body.

Mm-hmm.

That type of stuff, sight's very dodgy.

And there's a lot of us in the disability world use them.

What do you know about the use?

So there's certainly a lot of really good use cases for people with vision impairment.

The ability to translate road signs, read a menu, engage in the day-to-day life and convenience that those of us who are fully sighted can do without challenge or impairment.