Immediately after seeing the post, the first thing that came to my mind was the likely dystopian alternative we might see soon: cheap(er) smart glasses that insert ads to your view. The idea of...
Immediately after seeing the post, the first thing that came to my mind was the likely dystopian alternative we might see soon: cheap(er) smart glasses that insert ads to your view.
The idea of smart glasses blocking ads is an enticing one. I have already experienced something similar with active noise cancellation headphones. Not having to hear a single ad while shopping (or the endless barrage of Christmas songs during this time of the year) or in public transportation has been a welcome improvement to my life, and not having to see any ads either is the next step I want to experience.
Really? I thought of Peril Sensitive Sunglasses right away, the version I'd actually want. >.>
Immediately after seeing the post, the first thing that came to my mind was the likely dystopian alternative we might see soon: cheap(er) smart glasses that insert ads to your view.
I fell head first into the Apple ecosystem last year and with that came the purchase of Airpods Pro 2. I believe using these has gotten me quite close to the ideal situation of blocking out...
Headphones that could block out things like music and voices
I fell head first into the Apple ecosystem last year and with that came the purchase of Airpods Pro 2. I believe using these has gotten me quite close to the ideal situation of blocking out unwanted music, advertisements, people talking etc. To clarify, this is the case when I am listening to music using the headphones.
This, sadly, comes with the heavy reliance on other Apple products for the ideal experience, and I am not able to comment on how they'd perform when using a non-Apple device.
I use those pods too. Out of everything I tried they are the most effective at blocking noise (I tried several "good" earphones). They also work well with Android and Linux. Caveats are: You don't...
I use those pods too. Out of everything I tried they are the most effective at blocking noise (I tried several "good" earphones). They also work well with Android and Linux. Caveats are:
You don't necessarily know the battery level (Android 13 shows it as a notification when paired)
No way to update the firmware without an Apple device
If pairing with Linux, then your distro needs to have the AAC codec
I can already see it: peace as a service, glasses that record what you see, AI-identify objects in the frame, use online search and/or AI to verify which ones are ads, and replace those with...
I can already see it: peace as a service, glasses that record what you see, AI-identify objects in the frame, use online search and/or AI to verify which ones are ads, and replace those with blanks or e.g. AI-generated imagery, like plants.
Of course, the provider stores data about all objects, faces, and ads you (would) see. It sells that data to corpos for market research, and to inform ads for similar and nearby people who do not subscribe to PaaS.
I could possibly see it happening, but I question how far off something like this really is. As far as I know, this type of ad-blocking doesn't even exist right now and there's plenty of...
I could possibly see it happening, but I question how far off something like this really is. As far as I know, this type of ad-blocking doesn't even exist right now and there's plenty of opportunity for it. There's all kinds of places where embedded or native advertising exists in video. I can't watch a single sports stream that isn't filled to the brim with them, and DNS based or browser based adblockers simply don't work on these because they're within the same video stream as the content itself. Obviously in many cases you can't really fill the adspace in with anything, like sports for example, they cut the broadcast and the game is usually in a timeout, but simply replacing it with blankness and muting the audio would be amazing.
Of course this would probably require some fingerprinting tech probably similar to what Youtube uses for ContentID (just the technology in identifying videos, not the copyright management part) and then some database to maintain these fingerprints, and people who actually collect the fingerprints on the advertisements and update the databases, so clearly there's plenty of obstacles in the way of its existence, but I tried searching for anything like this and as far as I can tell it doesn't exist. This would be simpler to achieve than doing it on smart glasses as conceptualized and yet we haven't even accomplished this.
Immediately after seeing the post, the first thing that came to my mind was the likely dystopian alternative we might see soon: cheap(er) smart glasses that insert ads to your view.
The idea of smart glasses blocking ads is an enticing one. I have already experienced something similar with active noise cancellation headphones. Not having to hear a single ad while shopping (or the endless barrage of Christmas songs during this time of the year) or in public transportation has been a welcome improvement to my life, and not having to see any ads either is the next step I want to experience.
Really? I thought of Peril Sensitive Sunglasses right away, the version I'd actually want. >.>
I fell head first into the Apple ecosystem last year and with that came the purchase of Airpods Pro 2. I believe using these has gotten me quite close to the ideal situation of blocking out unwanted music, advertisements, people talking etc. To clarify, this is the case when I am listening to music using the headphones.
This, sadly, comes with the heavy reliance on other Apple products for the ideal experience, and I am not able to comment on how they'd perform when using a non-Apple device.
I use those pods too. Out of everything I tried they are the most effective at blocking noise (I tried several "good" earphones). They also work well with Android and Linux. Caveats are:
I can already see it: peace as a service, glasses that record what you see, AI-identify objects in the frame, use online search and/or AI to verify which ones are ads, and replace those with blanks or e.g. AI-generated imagery, like plants.
Of course, the provider stores data about all objects, faces, and ads you (would) see. It sells that data to corpos for market research, and to inform ads for similar and nearby people who do not subscribe to PaaS.
Reminds me of a Tom Scott video.
I could possibly see it happening, but I question how far off something like this really is. As far as I know, this type of ad-blocking doesn't even exist right now and there's plenty of opportunity for it. There's all kinds of places where embedded or native advertising exists in video. I can't watch a single sports stream that isn't filled to the brim with them, and DNS based or browser based adblockers simply don't work on these because they're within the same video stream as the content itself. Obviously in many cases you can't really fill the adspace in with anything, like sports for example, they cut the broadcast and the game is usually in a timeout, but simply replacing it with blankness and muting the audio would be amazing.
Of course this would probably require some fingerprinting tech probably similar to what Youtube uses for ContentID (just the technology in identifying videos, not the copyright management part) and then some database to maintain these fingerprints, and people who actually collect the fingerprints on the advertisements and update the databases, so clearly there's plenty of obstacles in the way of its existence, but I tried searching for anything like this and as far as I can tell it doesn't exist. This would be simpler to achieve than doing it on smart glasses as conceptualized and yet we haven't even accomplished this.
Fun idea, but I'm not sure how desirable it is actually is (in practice) to give yourself a false image of reality.