Just wait until they start pushing ads onto your vision wherever there’s a blank wall…
‘They Live’ was way ahead of it’s time
That movie was so much better than I gave it credit for at the time.
Rewatched it recently, a B movie that had more depth than appeared at first (and yes, the irony isn’t list on me).
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.
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.
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.
Unless they run a version of Linux where I can install my own software I’m not interested.
I suspect they’ll become like OpenWRT routers where the stock firmware is total garbage but you can replace it with something open source to super power the device.
I suspect they’ll become like OpenWRT routers where the stock firmware is total garbage but you can replace it with something open source to super power the device.
Honestly I don’t imagine that as likely the case. Bottom line almost every practical use of AR that comes to mind, requires a ton of AI stuff rolling it in the background. Identify what shit is, who people are etc… Without that you are basically just looking at a hands free camera. Guessing with small form factors etc… not much is going to be processed locally so we aren’t looking at much that has value in the independent firmware space.
Still need legislation on this so every fucking dork walking around in these isn’t just feeding facial recognition data data to whomever which can then be accessed by anyone with enough money to pay for it.
See, you just need to wear glasses that project something to foil the facial recognition. Of course, they’ll come up with something to jam your obfuscator but you can upgrade to full body EM cloaking. Of course, they’ll implement…
It’s just going to be a constant escalation until rich people don’t go out in public anymore and poor people get regular back room body modifications.
Now that I would actually buy. Smart glasses that project a digital screen over my face that scrambles all face reco tech.
Just wear IR emitters. Works a charm to foil tiny camera sensors with no filters.
This can already be done with a tiny camera and a pocket computer, and we don’t have regs around it.
Glasses would make that simpler, but the cat’s out of the bag.
I would just like contacts that work well with my astigmatism. Then I wouldn’t have to wear glasses at all which would be fantastic.
No it won’t lol
Will it be, though? Or will it be the thing that will be hyped the most in 2025? You know, since the AI bubble seems to be about to burst…
It would be if a single good product can be released at a reasonable price point.
As a +10 year VR enthusiast. I am very much looking forward to all the new VR headsets that will come out in 2025 by tech giants. Maybe they don’t know how to make a great VR headset yet when even some major players who have been making VR headsets for years are still failing sometimes. Samsung have been making my favorite smartphones so i’m hoping their take on it will be good.
Like, something I can pour a drink into? I can believe that after the rise of the Stanley cup.
