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It was definitely a somewhat weird experience the first time I talked to someone who was wearing something vaguely like this. I had a grad-school interview with Thad Starner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Starner) in 2004. He had a DIY eyepiece he wore everywhere, with a chording keyboard slung on one side near his waist. The whole interview was filled with these weird moments of, "so is he making eye contact, or looking at something in his eyepiece?"

It was sort of an uncanny-valley thing where we were having a face-to-face conversation, but I was not quite sure which of the normal face-to-face cues applied. I don't at all mind different kinds of conversations, but to me an IM or IRC chat feel much more comfortable, because you just switch to a completely different interaction mode. Not necessarily less nuanced if it's people who are "fluent" at chat, but different, so it doesn't feel uncanny in the same way. Might be something I'd get used to with more experience, though.