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by steve-atx-7600 20 days ago
Won’t it soon be hard to tell if glasses are smart or not? At least for outdoor use sunglasses in black? I block meta so I have only seen third party pictures online.
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It's already hard to tell, because chunky sunglasses don't change in volume much when you add electronics and optics. You kind of have to know what you're looking for to clock even these: https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/electronics/RW7002ray-ban%20meta...
Making them "fashionable" seems to be a selling point, as seen woth the last advertising positioning largely to the woman's fashion industry. They are definitely aiming to not look like nerdy tech.
They learned from Scoble's glasshole picture https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/yes-you-can-w...