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by pux0r3 4584 days ago
I do have access to glass, but I'm not going to hack on it at the office and the price tag is just too steep for me to justify taking a pair home to hack on in my free time (especially with their lack of prescription support). That seems to be where they're falling flat, it's too early to base a business or startup after and it's too expensive to get the enthusiast/hacker support they seem to be expecting.

Also, I really wish they weren't so strict with their facial recognition ban. I'm useless in social situations because I'm terrible with faces (if I see someone out of the context I met them I will not recognize them). For someone like me, even if it was restricted to my own personal database and required approval of the person I was interacting with (NFC or BLE touch for instance), it would heavily level the social playing field.

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The face recognition thing actually makes sense since the camera quality isn't that great and it's fixed focus. You'd have to get unreasonably close to someone to actually get it to work. I've tried, it just needs time for the privacy/UX issues to be resolved.