• lurker8008@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That was the idea of Google glasses but it was too early and tech wasn’t ready. It was gonna give you just enough useful info and get out of the way.

    Plus Google haters made “glass-holes” viral.

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      9 months ago

      I’m not sure whether it would work better today.

      What seems odd about the glasses is that they’re essentially bodycams, but just unobtrusive enough not to be identified as such from a distance.

      Someone walking around with an AR headset makes it very clear they’re wearing a tech device, someone holding up a phone in front of them signals “I might be filming”, but someone wearing slightly unusual glasses won’t catch any attention. And that seems very weird to a lot of people.

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      9 months ago

      To be fair, that product was crazy expensive. It was basically exclusively for wealthy people. If it was cheaper, and easy to develop for, it would have been a huge success.

      Look at what Apple has done here by comparison… This bullshit is even more expensive.