The creepy part isn’t the glasses, it’s the camera. Remove the camera, problem solved.
Without a camera, smart glasses can still provide a HUD that display whatever the user might find useful. A cyclist could see their route and real-time heath metrics from their tracker. Someone giving a presentation could have a built-in teleprompter. A sales person could have product information. There are the normal things, like calendars and notifications. Instead of checking your phone or smart watch during a meeting, the glasses could show the time and next meeting, to allow someone to keep and eye on those things, without looking like they are anxious to leave.
I don’t know why there is an assumption that glasses must contain a camera. A simple button, to allow listening via a mic, if it’s going to have voice control, also avoids the creepiness from something always listening. These don’t seem like hard problems to solve, just remove the creepy parts.
I wore glasses almost all my life, enduring "four eyes" taunts, losing them, breaking them, and losing them again, many times over. I tried contact lenses, but they were a struggle. It's almost cataract surgery time, and I'll need readng glasses.
Why anyone would want glasses other than sunglasses ( a necessity with the strong sun; I wear them over the glasses) puzzles me.
The creepy part isn’t the glasses, it’s the camera. Remove the camera, problem solved.
Without a camera, smart glasses can still provide a HUD that display whatever the user might find useful. A cyclist could see their route and real-time heath metrics from their tracker. Someone giving a presentation could have a built-in teleprompter. A sales person could have product information. There are the normal things, like calendars and notifications. Instead of checking your phone or smart watch during a meeting, the glasses could show the time and next meeting, to allow someone to keep and eye on those things, without looking like they are anxious to leave.
I don’t know why there is an assumption that glasses must contain a camera. A simple button, to allow listening via a mic, if it’s going to have voice control, also avoids the creepiness from something always listening. These don’t seem like hard problems to solve, just remove the creepy parts.
I wore glasses almost all my life, enduring "four eyes" taunts, losing them, breaking them, and losing them again, many times over. I tried contact lenses, but they were a struggle. It's almost cataract surgery time, and I'll need readng glasses.
Why anyone would want glasses other than sunglasses ( a necessity with the strong sun; I wear them over the glasses) puzzles me.
Seems like an instance of Betteridge’s Law, so long as there’s a camera (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)
Although I do agree with the other commenter who says that, sans camera, there’s little to no creep factor.
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