Will live-streaming sunglasses go mainstream?

Meta is reportedly working on Ray-Bans that stream video live. And live viewer's comments will be audible to the streamer!

Janko Roettgers is reporting that Meta is working on Ray-Ban branded live-streaming camera glasses in partnership with glasses giant EssilorLuxottica. The glasses will live-stream both video and audio via Facebook or Instagram, and then live comments will be audible to the person wearing the glasses.

The glasses will reportedly fail to operate if the light that indicates video capture is covered or tampered with. This feature would make sure people aren’t taking video without others’ knowledge.

Here’s why I think this product — or at least this concept — is a truly great idea. (Hint, the first-person intimacy of face-worn cameras is fantastic. It’s something I learn while using Google Glass ten years ago. The pictures below were all taken with Google Glass.)

The Dead Sea on the Jordan side with Israel on the distant shore.

My wife, Amira, on the bridge buttress over the Arno river in Florence.

Riding a camel at Petra in Jordan.

TWiT nerds riding Segways in San Francisco.

Sunset over the Arno river in Florence.

A rainy day in Paris.

Street mayhem somewhere in Italy.

The view from a hike in Italy’s Cinque Terre.

My wife, Amira, in Volterra in Tuscany.

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Mike’s List of Brilliantly Good Ideas

1. Cloudflare Speed Test is a superior alternative to Netflix’s fast.com

2. The Photogrammar site lets you choose a location, then see photographs taken in that location back in time.

3. The Vault 2.0 is an organizing system for carrying your gadgets, cables and tools — all of it.

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Mike’s List of the Moment

1. Malady of the moment: “TikTok Brain”

2. Mode of the moment: “fake airplane mode”

3. AI singularity of the moment: AI now better at proving it’s human than humans are

4. Claim of the moment: While AI becomes more like humans, humans become more like AI.

5. Sentence of the moment: “ChatGPT found work as a social media crypto huckster.”

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Mike’s List of Shameless Self-Promotions

1. I was on This Week in Google yesterday!

2. Oaxaca: the city of art

3. We just added a new Oaxaca Mezcal Experience for this year!

4. The future of work is AI-enhanced and remote

5. Read ELGAN.COM for more!

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Mike’s Location: Oaxaca, Mexico

(Why Mike is always traveling.)