I want to make a small apologia on behalf smart glasses. I have an Orcam MyEye (pictured) which uses computer vision to provide a number of assistive features. It lets me know who I'm looking at, and will attempt to guess age and gender. It will read text that I indicate by pointing, and it identifies currency. I believe it also has a UPC barcode database but I don't remember. It does this completely offline.

Admittedly I don't use it all the time since it has to attach to a glasses frame via a magnet, which is somewhat uncomfortable, and the battery makes hummingbirds look good (I think it only lasts an hour) but it proved instrumental when my eye was hemorrhaging after a surgery and I had to travel alone with even less vision than I normally have (my doggo was amazing, too).

So it's not all dystopian.

The moron selling them isn't even wearing them

Edit.

Mark Zuckerberg, seen on stage talking about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses

It needs to be the norm to ostracize anyone who wears this shit.

no thanks. I did nothing wrong so I won't change. how about we regulate glassholes and force them to wear ugly colored frames.

I have worn full rim, plastic frames for years now.

This time, I purposely bought glasses with metal frames, semi-rimless.

is anyone in this room making a 8K video????

If somebody breaks my glasses because they think there's a camera inside, I'm going to see red. Blurry red.

No.

I've already had a run-in with a glasshole. A service guy that came to work on something and I didn't realize they were smart glasses for over an hour, when his phone started talking and he said, "Sorry, that's my glasses talking to me". I said, "Are you wearing smart glasses?" and he said, "Don't worry, I wasn't recording or anything." Fucking glasshole. I really hope people give them a lot shit and make them feel unsafe to wear them in public, like last time. I'll be a lot more observant from now on and it pisses me off that I should have to be.

Yep, thin and light frames are nice for comfort too. Titanium ones are cool

Fuck that, I'll keep my thick frames and if it makes you wonder that's on you lol

I can’t wear thin frame, I need the thick plastic. The bridge supports on wire frames lead to tears in my skin that are quite painful with continued use. Plastic frames don’t do that.

But my frames are translucent dark pink and fade to clear at the bottom, so pretty obviously not shitty recording glasses. Thick black frames look absolutely shit on me.

Eventually, along a long enough time-frame without disaster striking, we will have smart contact lens.

Even nanotech in bionic and otherwise altered eyeballs. This will need to be dealt with but I'm not sure how feasible it will be long-term

In reality the fashion trend will probably swing the other way. More high profile people will be wearing thicker frame glasses, so people will generally begin to perceive them as more elegant and attractive.

A new underground market might encourage thefts of such valuable tech ripe for the picking.