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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Someone make glasses that do this please.

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Someone make glasses that do this please.

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    I would totally wear smart goggles that do this.

    Unfortunately it’s far more likely that we will receive smart goggles that add ads, not subtract them.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      Why am I picturing Roddy Piper…

      • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
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        Obey

      • Apeman42@lemmy.world
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        “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…”

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        The Animal loves you

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      Yes and no. For ads to make any kind of revenue, you first need an user-base. And if the first thing you do is riddle them with ads, it will probably really hurt the sales.

      So, the first generation of smart glasses should be pretty OK as far as ads go. Of course, they will gradually introduce them, but that will hopefully take several years before we get to that point.

      And inevitably some FOSS/privacy focused alternative will show up, just like you have with GrapheneOS, PinePhone and similar. Or, assuming they will let developers side-load their apps without going through proprietary store (which may be unlikely, given the current trend of locking everything down - on the other hand, there is a pretty large market of developers who wouldn’t touch anything Apple-level of closed and someone will definitely want to cash in on it), you will eventually get OCR ad-blocks for billboards outside. I bet that would be one of the first apps developed once possible.

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    The sky too???

    • The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOPM
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      Could be a plane dragging a banner!

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        That’s why I never look up, just can’t risk it

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      The streets and the people? Believe it or not, also an ad.

    • Aldehyde@kbin.social
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      Yes unfortunately

      https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/skyvertising-drone-ads

      • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I think I saw this shared on reddit with a tweet response that said something like “if I look into the sky and see an advertisement I’m becoming a terrorist.”

        Does anyone remember that or just me?

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          Yes.

          And there was something similar posted on slashdot like 20 years ago. I don’t think it was drones though. It was some kind of projection technology.

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      The “sky”? You mean round-earths billboard?

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    I have a pair that kind of does this. When I put them on, the ads go away but are replaced with huge phrases like “OBEY” and “THIS IS YOUR GOD” on every building. 7/10 - improved but not blocked.

    • dudinax@programming.dev
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      You’re going to have to fight OP for half an hour before they try them.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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        fight the shit out of OP. and they’re gonna smash your balls.

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        I would, but have you seen his posting history on this site? I can’t possibly match talent like that.

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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      People look weird with them on, too…

      • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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        “This one here, real fuckin ugly!”

        • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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          Please explain to out of loopers.

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            https://youtu.be/qQgyoHsknIk?si=5aKTpXU3N9yF25-g

            • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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              video not available? I think i may have taken too many antibiotics

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                Updated link. “They Live” (market scene)

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    deleted by creator

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Without all of the ads, this looks like Toronto.

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    You had to block the sky?

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      That’s an ad for Bluesky^tm the new social media network

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Basically the plot of the Christmas Black Mirror episode.

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      Funny, I thought the same thing. As opposed to this, that episode was horrifying.

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    I tuned into the NYC new years, and I guess it’s been awhile since I saw images of NYC - holy shit, it looks terrible! HAPPY KIA NEW YEARS! seriously? every inch of building is a scrolling screen. wow.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      Those NYC countdowns are a eyesore. And the mooks willing to stand in freezing cold, waving corporate branded trinkets.

      Those shows are wild.

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    Rather than blocking it out, replace it with greenery, shrubs, trees, flowers, grasses

    Some of the most beautiful areas of any city are where people and nature are together. Just give me big ass trees alongside the towering buildings!

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      And instead of blocking it out, destroy it, and do the things that you said instead.

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      I mean, if we’re talking about New York you’ve got a huge ass park just around the corner. But yeah, I agree

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        Yup, it’s amazing. And the real estate around central park is some of the most valuable in the world!

        But plants are nearly free, so we could just have that in more places…

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          I heard they let us live.

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            They also cool down the surrounding impermeable surfaces. We need more trees!

            • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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              I love trees.

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        What’s an ass-park?

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        A park. How nice.

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    This reminds me of blocking ads on twitch. You can’t skip the ad but you can instead look at a black screen for the exact same duration. And that’s preferable.

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    Living life in the present age is being almost constantly under pressure from people trying to influence you to do what they want (which is what Advertising is: sales pressure, often of the slimy kind that tries to influence you subconsciously).

    Properly trying to do what is rationally in your own self-interest whilst minimizing the influence (as I mentioned, because Marketing nowadays use techniques from Psychology, commonly subconsciously) from those trying to manipulate you into giving them your money is tiresome, to say the least.

    Just the other day I saw the new Aquaman film and the amount of in-your-face Product Placement (mainly of a known beer brand) was literally disgusting and significantly spoiled the film (which, frankly, wasn’t all that great to begin with - Special Effect rompfest with bad writting).

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      I saw my buddy watch the Aquaman film yesterday, and his face was glued to the screen like a child. Seeing anything Marvel or that other one in Europe is like, how do these people just eat this war mongering blatant military propaganda ultraconsumerist bullshit right up like that?

      But then I remember it’s because of brainwashing since birth.

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        Brainless violent rompfest films are basically chewing gum for the brain.

        I wouldn’t read too much into it.

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          I wouldn’t read too much into the 24/7 broadcast of government propaganda installed in every apartment either, truth be told.

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    Someone did that already actually: Here’s the article

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      If only it were real 😔

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    Someone’s going to make glasses that do the opposite.

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      https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs?si=ihXynIRb8cO0kyfV

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    Sounds like a good way to get hit by a bus

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      This sounds like an absolute win

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    It’s still shit?

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    This and IRL hitmarkers

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