[theshrike79]

As a full-time glasses-wearer and sci-fi nerd, I want smart glasses SO BAD. Just running the equivalent of YOLOv8 on your glasses identifying objects in your view real time would be very very cool.

But as a privacy-conscious developer, I want exactly zero connection to any FAANG cloud service in my smart classes.

So until someone releases a pair of smart glasses I can get with my prescription and, for example, use my phone for "local" compute with no forced cloud access, I'm going to skip the whole category.

[whiplash451]

It’s worse than this. A company offering “private” smart glasses could slip into FB mode on its own or get acquired. So it’s a hard no from any company really.

[theshrike79]

I'm thinking of it more like the Raspberry Pi of smart glasses.

Something with open-ish hardware running Linux without any specific blocks on installing your own software on it.

[stavros]

A company offering private smart glasses would have to offer them with an unlocked bootloader.