Dream on. If smart glasses gain a massive amount of users in 2025, I’ll put a sock in my mouth. Still not enough reason to carry around both smart glasses and a smart phone. Smart watches already are there for tech enthusiasts and they can always go with a VR headset to get a hardcore AR experience.
For smart glasses to be adopted they really need to be executed perfectly. No one wants to fuss around with anything on their face and directly affecting their vision. I don’t see the hardware and software worked out smoothly enough for this to be popular for at least another three years.
Save a sock for me, I’m on record saying this isn’t happening on any kind of large scale in 2025.
Cost is also a big thing. With tariffs on Chinese tech goods coming into effect and the fact that everything has gone up in price, like necessary things like groceries (plus the very high likelihood of inflation/greedflation continuing to strangle non-rich people), it’s a recipe for people to hang onto their money, not feel safe to spend it.
Unless they say somehow heavily subsidize it with ads and/or some kind of government fund hackery, I think we’re all safe from sock-mouth.
Smart watches are largely pointless though. In the modern world a watch is mostly a status symbol, and smart watches don’t do enough “smart” things to displace that, and they obviously aren’t status symbols.
A real heads up smart device you can actually wear for hours would actually push the boundary on wearable tech imo. At least, I have zero interest in watches, but am looking forward to being able to interact with my phone without developing neck problems.
I saw an ad showing how smart glasses help shoot creative videos. The guy wearing them does a slow spin and runs up to a girl who does the influencer “fake awe” thing at the sky. Then another shot he just backs away from her.
The resulting video failed to demonstrate what the glasses could do that a phone couldn’t. It was worse than a phone and the guy looked like an idiot filming it.
I like the commercial that shows the glasses helping someone cheat at billiards. Or the one that demonstrates how you could use them to covertly record people at a party without their consent or knowledge. Really makes me glad these products exist so that one can easily act unethically with fewer social consequences.
Dream on. If smart glasses gain a massive amount of users in 2025, I’ll put a sock in my mouth. Still not enough reason to carry around both smart glasses and a smart phone. Smart watches already are there for tech enthusiasts and they can always go with a VR headset to get a hardcore AR experience.
For smart glasses to be adopted they really need to be executed perfectly. No one wants to fuss around with anything on their face and directly affecting their vision. I don’t see the hardware and software worked out smoothly enough for this to be popular for at least another three years. Save a sock for me, I’m on record saying this isn’t happening on any kind of large scale in 2025.
Cost is also a big thing. With tariffs on Chinese tech goods coming into effect and the fact that everything has gone up in price, like necessary things like groceries (plus the very high likelihood of inflation/greedflation continuing to strangle non-rich people), it’s a recipe for people to hang onto their money, not feel safe to spend it.
Unless they say somehow heavily subsidize it with ads and/or some kind of government fund hackery, I think we’re all safe from sock-mouth.
Smart watches are largely pointless though. In the modern world a watch is mostly a status symbol, and smart watches don’t do enough “smart” things to displace that, and they obviously aren’t status symbols.
A real heads up smart device you can actually wear for hours would actually push the boundary on wearable tech imo. At least, I have zero interest in watches, but am looking forward to being able to interact with my phone without developing neck problems.
I saw an ad showing how smart glasses help shoot creative videos. The guy wearing them does a slow spin and runs up to a girl who does the influencer “fake awe” thing at the sky. Then another shot he just backs away from her.
The resulting video failed to demonstrate what the glasses could do that a phone couldn’t. It was worse than a phone and the guy looked like an idiot filming it.
I like the commercial that shows the glasses helping someone cheat at billiards. Or the one that demonstrates how you could use them to covertly record people at a party without their consent or knowledge. Really makes me glad these products exist so that one can easily act unethically with fewer social consequences.
Yeah, they should really advertise what they do excel at which is covert dick pics at urinals.