[joering2]

> The thing is, people walk around with their cellphones out, and you aren't complaining about that.

That's exactly the "thing". Once some "meme" like this settles in, its super hard to change people's perception. Heck, I have very well educated friend who is super tech-savvy and he truly believes people wearing Google glass are most likely some psychos, who just wait for an opportunity to record others in public.

Perception like this is hard to change; that's why I don't believe Google will make Glass-like device popular/successful if they are going to brand it under "Google" flag.

To anyone working on similar device: purposely put low-density contrast/black-white camera (or some sort of sonar/radar -- you don't really need high quality picture in your Glasses to have some cool use for them) in your device and advertise it this way from day one, so that hopefully people will get used to it knowing there is no hardware to record them in 1080p.

[sevenless]

Sonar or lidar is a great idea if it can be made really small and not use much power.

Simply, don't include a camera, and make it obvious there's no camera - make the conspicuous bit transparent. You don't need a camera for many applications, like a GPS based heads up map display.

[witty_username]

Maybe make the camera physically detachable? And some easy indicator to show whether the camera is plugged in or not?