Post #3201315

2026-03-04 13:05 UTC

@phire@phire.place I've been waiting years for head mounted displays like the ones from XReal and Viture to get good enough that I could keep a pair in my bag and use them for working around town from my phone, without having to lug around a laptop. No interest in AR and "smart glasses". And bullshit like this has poisoned that well entirely. I will now never be able to wear anything in public that looks like smart glasses without (correctly) attracting social opprobrium. These finks make me so mad.

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@matt@istheguy.com 2026-03-04 13:27

@gnomon@mastodon.social @phire@phire.place I've been using XReal glasses as my main screen for about a year, and I can confirm that the biggest downside is having to say "don't worry, there's no camera or anything creepy" every damn time a new human sees me

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@gnomon@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 04:48

I have not seen many people in the real world using head mounted displays / smart glasses. (Outside of work, which is decidedly not the real world.) In fact only two: 1. A front desk hotel clerk wearing a pair of Facebook glasses (I truly wonder how many laws he was breaking in how many jurisdictions by just looking at credit cards...) 2. A drone operator at the nazi rally at Christie Pits last summer who was busily recording the faces of all the folks yelling at the nazis Bad track record.

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