I’ll be the outlier and say that given the perfect circumstances, I would buy Smart Glasses. BUT in no way, shape, or form would I buy META Smart Glasses.

I work a retail job where I’m staring at shelves for like 80% of my shift, it would be dope as hell to have smart glasses and have a video playing in my vision while I’m working.

But until there are more of an “open source” type Smart Glasses that aren’t supported by one of the big companies like Meta or Apple, I’ll join the rest of y’all on staying far away from them.

I wear glasses as anyways and I’d love a heads up display. Augmented reality where I could basically spawn full sized displays anywhere for work would be nice too. I’d probably need a device to control it somehow too.

However, I wouldn’t want them from Google, Apple, Meta or any of the other large corporations. Not coupled with their walled gardens, their subscriptions, their EULAs and terms and conditions and “updates” I didn’t ask for.

I just want the hardware and a driver for Linux. Connect the glasses via WiFi to my own computer and run the applications on this computer. If I want to use the glasses outside of my home, I would set up a VPN and use my phone to create a WiFi hotspot.

However, I’m pretty sure nobody is going to build it like that, so I’ll never have smart glasses. Which is fine.

When some foss alternative releases at an affordable price, yes.

See y’all in 2077

No! Anyone who buys a phone on their head for $800 is the reason humanity is getting destroyed by corps

Remember Google Glass?
Same story here. Neat tech but no chance buddy

Just in a dream scenario where they are

• Seamless, Not bulky
• GrapheneOS version for it
• Physical kill switch for mic, camera and sensors
• Tor routed, or VPN friendly
• Only open source software
• Environmental and Fair wages commitment
• 100% Repairable and pro-consumer ownership
• Up to date law for these technologies

I feel like a phoneless future is quite interesting, even though we will face new issues like not knowing if a person is paying attention to you or not.

i’d buy glasses that would scramble the vision of smart glasses

I saw how impossible it was to actually take the WhatsApp call for Zuckerberg himself.

I’d love them, but like others have said, not if made by Meta, and not if they rely on sending all my data to cloud services to function.

Nope. I can wait for the chip implant to broadcast ads in my sleep.

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.

Unless it can connect to my own server, no.

Is it a HUD or just a spy tool?

I gotta wear glasses anyways so it’d be cool if I can get like a pathing over lay with maps and maybe customizable notifications.

But video calling and just taking poorly framed pictures isn’t interesting.

I love the idea of smart glasses, and would happily buy them. However, it’d 1. Need to have 3rd party app support and 2. Be able to work without connecting to any tech company’s servers. I’ve gotten used to my android phone that doesn’t have google play services, and I’ll never go back to having a device that phones home without my permission. In a perfect world I’d like to have some FOSS firmware and OS to run on them, but I’d be willing to go without as long as I could disable traffic to all major tech company servers.

Unfortunately these requirements will likely mean I won’t be getting smart glasses any time soon

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.