Although they look like ordinary glasses, they can take pictures and videos right in front of your eyes and even recognize people and objects around you. But this new technology is just as promising as it is raising the fear of secret surveillance. Smart glasses are now the focus of new discussions in the technology world.
Many technology companies are seeing them as the computing device of the future. However, at the same time, new concerns about privacy and personal security have arisen due to their ability to secretly capture pictures and videos. Recently, a journalist shared his one-month experience using smart glasses made by Metre.
His description reveals a mixed feeling of possibility and fear. The device has an AI assistant that can help the user with various tasks such as providing weather information and taking pictures, identifying objects in front of them, etc. Smart glasses could become the main means of personal computing in the next decade. Although these devices, jointly developed with Ray-Ban, look like ordinary glasses, they have camera speakers and voice-controlled AI technology inside. However, the biggest controversy has arisen over its camera facilities. Because users can capture pictures or videos very easily.
People around them often don't realize it. As a result, the risk of violating personal privacy seems to be increasing. In the experience of users of this technology, people wearing smart glasses have almost been asked whether they are secretly recording someone. Whether they are interfering with any secret of people. Such devices have created new debates about the limits of social behavior and personal space.
On the other hand, its AI assistant is helping the visually impaired. This technology can play a role in important tasks such as recognizing objects read aloud. However, in real use, it often gives wrong information, some bad directions are not understood properly, and there are also allegations of misleading results in translation, which leads the technology to a lot of bad things. Smart glasses have not yet been able to ensure any essential use that will force ordinary people to buy them.
However, this new chapter on technology has brought to the fore important questions about privacy ethics and social acceptability. And the answer to that question will determine whether smart glasses will be an essential device of the future or will remain a technology for limited users.
