[ericskiff]

Folks have been predicting that the next big shift in computing will be onto glasses that we wear and away from our phones.

The tech just hasn’t been there yet and most of the devices that do this are heavy clunky and hot

Meta is investing billions to get out ahead of this shift and to own the entertainment and data (and thus advertising) layers that sit on top of the real world through these glasses

The rumor mill is abuzz that Facebook finally making a play for it in the next set of smart glasses after a few years of sticking to VR headsets and audio/camera only glasses

[adrr]

Why do they call the smart glasses when they just send everything to the smart phone? Nothing is done on device.

[delecti]

They're also called smartwatches, when most of them are pretty useless without a phone. Even if they offload everything to the phone, they're still much "smarter" than normal glasses, which just sit there doing nothing but correcting vision.

[wmeredith]

It's a marketing term not a technical term

[actionfromafar]

Facebook is trying so very hard to be Innovative Online Industries.

[Mr_Eri_Atlov]

"I get that reference."

[sqircles]

The "old man yelling at the sky" part of me can only hope the side effects of something like this gaining traction might be that physical-world advertisements fade away.

[wmeredith]

I'd love ad-blokcer in my glasses. Replace every billboard I see with fine art.