[ctdonath]

We had the same complaints about cell phones, especially with handsfree headsets. It was simply too creepy to have people walking around with a small box mushed against their ear ... or worse, just walking along chattering into the air with nobody around.

Well, we still have the same complaints, we just find it so useful we've accepted the "cell phone zombification" of society.

HUDs will be the same, and like Bluetooth-enabled earpieces will gradually disappear into barely-visible devices.

[diegocg]

People only walks with small boxes mushed against their ear when they get a call. The rest of the time it's on their pocket. Not so much with something like Google glasses.

Glasses suck. I wear them since I was a child and I don't like them. I'm planning to get laser eye surgery done just to get rid of glasses. I would be very surprised if suddenly lots of people with good sight are fine with wearing glasses all the time.

[Pxtl]

Better example would be Walkmen. Nobody blinks at the sight of somebody with earbuds on.

[roc]

Earbuds, no. But wearing glass is much more visible -- more of an asserted statement. It's currently more like wearing over-ear headphones in public. Which is done by only a vanishing minority.

As glass becomes smaller, I'd imagine the pushback will abate. But until it seamlessly disappears into frames, people are going to react poorly to what is being perceived as a clearly-worn borderline-spy-camera. [1]

[1] Spy camera in the sense that there isn't much of a physical cue that someone's taking a picture or not. The light is hardly as visible as holding a camera or phone up to your face.

[matznerd]

But is it not awkward to try and have a conversation with someone wearing headphones, even if they are off?