I would buy smart tech in the future but only once capitalism has disintegrated into a new world social order (i.e. the distant future) otherwise the motives of the tech company might be questionable and who knows what secret control crap they might add without your knowledge.

Isn’t tech already creepy enough, how’s this going to make things better, I can see limited good uses cases as opposed to how it’s being used most of the time right now

The use-cases that I see advertised are not things that I do in my day-to-day. I usually place my phone on a drawer or leave it in my backpack - I definitely don't want it on my face.

So, to me, smart glasses feel like an uncomfortable gimmick at this point. Maybe there is something amazing about them that has not yet clicked with me, but for the time being I don't see me buying one of these for the foreseeable future.

I would love a pair of smart glasses to augment what I'm seeing... Give me context, keep me informed, allow me to monitor things closely, yet passively, and let me do it all inconspicuously and unobtrusively! Even better if it has eye tracking navigation.

Oh, and make sure the hardware and software are open source and self-hosted. If it has all of that I'm in, 100%.

I don't think there is a future in my country.

Only of its running open source. Otherwise, probably not.

Apparently, the Glasshole lesson was not learned.

If my producer or I saw them on one's face, we'd rip them off and smash them unapologetically. We'd also call them out for potentially violating our privacy without realizing it.

I'd rather strap my cell phone to my face.

Camera, full color discreet display, and open source/*nix based? Yes, I would throw a couple grand down for that.

So many confidentiality violations with these. And if at the gym? Yikes. Hard no.

Hard pass

Made by Meta - hell no.

Made by someone else - possibly.

My main interests are navigation guidance on a HUD, real-time translation, and to a lesser degree teleprompting for speeches or presentations.

Wouldn't even really care if they had a camera or not - though what I've seen from the ones that do, being able to look at something that is in another language and ask it to translate it for you is pretty seriously cool. Can't imagine I'd use cameras for much else - but honestly with how uncomfortable they'd make everyone around me, I'd be quite willing to just forego them and pull out my phone to snap a pic and translate something that is text.

I was looking at the Even G1 pretty hard but then read some reviews that say the real-time translation is TERRIBLE, and to make it slightly less terrible you have to pay subscription fees, so I unsubscribed from their mailing list pretty quick.

Saw one on a Kickstarter recently that also piqued my interest, but they have cameras and were pretty bulky ... I may wait a generation or three for them to shrink down a bit more.

Nice try, industry shill.

Not a chance in hell.

Nothing smart technology promises over dumb technology is something I ever wanted in the first place.

I just want phones to be phones, TVs to be TVs, and glasses to be glasses.

I want to be able to instantly snap a picture of what I am looking at when I am riding my bike.

No. They'll probably find a way to put ads in your field of vision momentarily.

Not unless they had some sort of UI in the glass that you can focus on, and some sort of visual Augmented reality system.

If it's just a bullshit piece of plastic with a camera that speaks to you then why the fuck would i stick that on my face? Just make it a necklace or something there's no reason for it to be glasses.

Why would I?

NEVER

So here's the deal. I can't understand people. Between the ADHD and general hearing issues I would pay a lot to have the ability to have subtitles on people. I feel left out on a lot of conversations due to not being able to follow along.

Hell nah

I wouldn't buy these type of glasses either. I have neither the money nor the need so I'm not in the target group anyways. And if I had money, I would under no circumstances give it to a company like Meta.

I don't think the huge privacy concerns are going to hold. There is all sorts of equipment people can buy that is less obvious to film you surreptitiously. Always scan your air b'n'b, people. We are virtually all okay with strangers filming shit in our vicinity with their smartphones as long as we feel it isn't us they're filming. I think this will over time translate to an unbotheredness w/r/t smart glasses. And after a while even the LED light altering others to a rolling camera will disappear. These devices become main stream by their usefulness. The HUD for directions or names of acquaintances is one useful aspect. The immediate way to record your toddler's first steps or the funny face they pulled. An interaction with the law. Over time, this will outweigh the creepiness that we have perceived since the Google glasshole days.

its possible. Its hard to say until you start using something. It would make it more like it if it was basically a screen and maybe camera and mic.