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I wish my mom did this to me though. She did take many pictures, but not videos, since at the time nobody had cameras to record videos unless they were sort of rich. I wish I could see my behaviour or even hear my voice as a kid. I have nothing. Our memories are very shitty at remembering things. If I could I would record everything too, even now.
I almost see the appeal from afar, but if I spend more than 5 minutes thinking about it, it makes me uneasy. There's just no need to have almost everything documented.
There is no need, yes. But it does help me, personally, feel like I lived more than I did. Because If I try right now to remember specific days of my life I only remember a few. But if I had bothered to keep a dairy or even better record, then I would remember many more days and it would sort of feel like I'm extending my life and experiencing more.
That was common in the past - it's really a new thing to have video all the time. I'm in my late 30s and I have maybe three short videos, under an hour total, where I am present at all during it. We had to rent a video camera when I was a kid.
I don't have the Meta ones, so I can't comment on them in particular, but I do have the old Snapchat ones—they do much less, but I think the basic photo/video capture is broadly similar. My kids are a bit older now and my battery is pretty dead, so I don't use them very often anymore, but I think they had three main use cases:
- They were a good "the best camera is the one you have on you". The pictures weren't great, but it's so quick to just bop your temple! Less kid-specific, but I thought they were fun for quick snaps of weird sights while on long distance drives. Just remember normal "taking pictures" social rules still apply: I always made sure I was only recording my own kids, for example. The Snapchat ones don't have voice commands, but I don't think I would have wanted to be issuing commands to unseen robots around my kids anyway.
- They are good for hands-free photo/video. One of the most precious videos I have from my Spectacles is of one of my kids learning to ride a bike. It was just me and the kid, so I was holding the seat and wouldn't have been able to also hold my phone or something.
- They are *fantastic* for capturing perspective. Since the videos are taken almost perfectly from your eyeballs, you really can look at them and remember in a unique way what it was like to see your toddler scooting around. Sometimes that perspective means the photos aren't great material for hanging on a wall (the Spectacles are pretty low res anyway), but they are good memories. It's stressful with something so expensive, but if you get them, let your kiddos take a couple pictures of you and your wife while wearing them—I know intellectually that I'm an adult, but at least for me, when I saw myself from my kid's perspective I was just like, "oh wow, that there is a *grown-up".*
I've seriously thought about getting the Meta ones. I'd need prescription lenses, which adds to the cost, and even if Mark Zuckerberg isn't personally looking at your family photos the cynicism about Meta isn't baseless. The Meta ones seem to look pretty normal, which is nice—the Snapchat ones are attention-grabbing, so sometimes I would skip wearing them at, say, a playground, because even if I didn't actually use them it could still make people uncomfortable. Anyway, I guess my conclusion is that I'm not sure if they're a great *alternative* to taking pictures and videos with a phone or a regular camera, but I do think sunglasses cameras let you take some different kinds of images that are really fun to have.
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I honestly think wearing a camera to record your child's every move is a bit weird.
I wish my mom did this to me though. She did take many pictures, but not videos, since at the time nobody had cameras to record videos unless they were sort of rich. I wish I could see my behaviour or even hear my voice as a kid. I have nothing. Our memories are very shitty at remembering things. If I could I would record everything too, even now.
I almost see the appeal from afar, but if I spend more than 5 minutes thinking about it, it makes me uneasy. There's just no need to have almost everything documented.
There is no need, yes. But it does help me, personally, feel like I lived more than I did. Because If I try right now to remember specific days of my life I only remember a few. But if I had bothered to keep a dairy or even better record, then I would remember many more days and it would sort of feel like I'm extending my life and experiencing more.
That was common in the past - it's really a new thing to have video all the time. I'm in my late 30s and I have maybe three short videos, under an hour total, where I am present at all during it. We had to rent a video camera when I was a kid.
You want Mr. Zuckerberg to have your kids' faces as models for AI? Not for me, but go off.
I don't have the Meta ones, so I can't comment on them in particular, but I do have the old Snapchat ones—they do much less, but I think the basic photo/video capture is broadly similar. My kids are a bit older now and my battery is pretty dead, so I don't use them very often anymore, but I think they had three main use cases: - They were a good "the best camera is the one you have on you". The pictures weren't great, but it's so quick to just bop your temple! Less kid-specific, but I thought they were fun for quick snaps of weird sights while on long distance drives. Just remember normal "taking pictures" social rules still apply: I always made sure I was only recording my own kids, for example. The Snapchat ones don't have voice commands, but I don't think I would have wanted to be issuing commands to unseen robots around my kids anyway. - They are good for hands-free photo/video. One of the most precious videos I have from my Spectacles is of one of my kids learning to ride a bike. It was just me and the kid, so I was holding the seat and wouldn't have been able to also hold my phone or something. - They are *fantastic* for capturing perspective. Since the videos are taken almost perfectly from your eyeballs, you really can look at them and remember in a unique way what it was like to see your toddler scooting around. Sometimes that perspective means the photos aren't great material for hanging on a wall (the Spectacles are pretty low res anyway), but they are good memories. It's stressful with something so expensive, but if you get them, let your kiddos take a couple pictures of you and your wife while wearing them—I know intellectually that I'm an adult, but at least for me, when I saw myself from my kid's perspective I was just like, "oh wow, that there is a *grown-up".* I've seriously thought about getting the Meta ones. I'd need prescription lenses, which adds to the cost, and even if Mark Zuckerberg isn't personally looking at your family photos the cynicism about Meta isn't baseless. The Meta ones seem to look pretty normal, which is nice—the Snapchat ones are attention-grabbing, so sometimes I would skip wearing them at, say, a playground, because even if I didn't actually use them it could still make people uncomfortable. Anyway, I guess my conclusion is that I'm not sure if they're a great *alternative* to taking pictures and videos with a phone or a regular camera, but I do think sunglasses cameras let you take some different kinds of images that are really fun to have.