[vbezhenar]

Unrestricted glasses could really transform the society. Imagine looking at girl in the bar and getting her resume and other things known about her online identity without even saying a word. Imagine red rectangle around some guy in the street "was convicted for murder in 1998, released in 2018" and people avoiding him just in case.

Not sure whether it'll be good or bad in the end, but it'll really change lots of social interactions.

The damage could be controlled by proprietary API providing very limited data to the third-party code. But that wouldn't be open source.

[pjc50]

> Imagine looking at girl in the bar and getting her resume and other things known about her online identity without even saying a word

Automated stalking! This is definitely a bad thing.

[nsonha]

the more likely scenario is that we get to the point when people only put up online the bullshit image of their better selves, which decensitize people to the point that they don't trust online profile anymore.

[cblconfederate]

The thing is we already have automated stalking, no need to go to a bar even

[hwers]

Definitely a good excuse to just allow the technology to come into existence then. "Hey bad things already exists let's just add more of it! Don't wanna be against progress right?"

[cblconfederate]

i m not sure that's still the zeitgeist

[fastball]

This is a plot point in a black mirror episode! You should watch it if you haven't seen it, it's "White Christmas".

[cblconfederate]

I can imagine. Nobody would ever step foot on the road or in bars with a bunch of ruffians all around

[hwers]

I wonder if face identification is actually good enough at that without producing false positives. (Also I think there's been enough movies about that particular scenario that there'd be a ton of uproar if that came into reality.)

[infofarmer]

Regarding reliability, in China you can pay with just your face with Alipay in many convenience stores, supermarkets, and vending machines. End-to-end transaction fees are usually within 0.1%, which puts a ceiling on the failure rate.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/Pay-with-your-fa...

[bb123]

This sounds like hell